MAN RAZE: UK Version Of 'Surreal' To Include Bonus Disc

MAN RAZE, the new rock outfit featuring Phil Collen of DEF LEPPARD, Simon Laffy from GIRL and Paul Cook of THE SEX PISTOLS, will release its full-length album, "Surreal", in the UK on November 17 through Surrealist Records. Already given a critically acclaimed release in the USA, the UK album will come with a special European edition bonus disc. The bonus disc will feature five previously unreleased tracks — "You're So Wrong", "Low live in Burbank 08", "Turn It Up (Deep Dub)", "Runnin' Me Up (Instrumental Dub)" and "Can't Find My Own Way - Live Acoustic (Gary Crowley show)" .

MAN RAZE UK tour dates:

Dec. 03 - Manchester Roadhouse
Dec. 04 - Birmingham Barfly
Dec. 08 - London, Barfly
Dec. 09 - London, Water Rats

Tickets are priced £9 (London £10),subject to booking fee. Tickets available through www.barflyclub.com (both Barflys),www.gigsandtours.co.uk (Manchester) and www.ticketweb.co.uk (Water rats). Doors will be at 7pm. MAN RAZE will be onstage at 9pm.

Mixing the raw energy of the PISTOLS mixed with the immaculate pop rock of DEF LEPPARD, MAN RAZE is a unique clash of '70s simplicity with '80s excess, punk clubs with stadium rock.

"The fun part about MAN RAZE is that musically we can go off in any direction from rock to alternative the next," Phil Collen previously said.

With regards to the band's sound, Collen — who also handles lead vocals — told Rolling Stone magazine, "It's a mix. We go from really hard rock, with obviously big guitars, to dub. I was always into the alternative stuff, a very big fan of THE POLICE. And this is edgy — a lot more aggressive than DEF LEPPARD."

Before joining DEF LEPPARD, London born Phil Collen played in GIRL, who were one of the great unsung U.K. rock acts of the early 80’s (singer Phil Lewis would later front L.A. GUNS — who were at the vanguard of the L.A. sleaze rock scene that eventually produced GUNS N' ROSES). While Phil went on to join DEF LEPPARD he maintained a strong friendship with Simon Laffy, GIRL's bassist. Reconnecting in 2004, and joined by SEX PISTOLS drummer Paul Cook, MAN RAZE was born. Eschewing their illustrious past, the band have spent the past two year getting back to basics, writing and recording — they also played a sold-out show at London's Spitz Club and released a limited-edition EP "Skin Crawl" in October 2005 on their own label, Surrealist Records, in the UK.

MAN RAZE's "Turn It Up" video: