WARGASM Member Announces Charity Single

January 10, 2009

WARGASM frontman Bob Mayo's ROBOT MONSTER ARMY project has released the first single from its forthcoming debut album, "Robot Monster Army". All proceeds generated from the single, entitled "She's the Future", will benefit Rawkstars, a non-profit organization that provides musical instruments and instruction to needy Boston-area children. Information on downloading the single via iTunes and other on-line digital outlets can be found at Rawkstars.org and on the RMA's MySpace page, where more tracks from the upcoming album are available for streaming.

Recorded at Red Devil Recording in Stoughton, Massachusetts, the ROBOT MONSTER ARMY album features performances by members of several legendary Boston metal bands, including MELIAH RAGE, ONLY LIVING WITNESS, GANG GREEN, FORMICIDE, STEEL ASSASSIN, TRIPHAMMER, TEMPORARY INSANITY, BAD KARMA and more. Mayo's old cohorts in WARGASM also appear. The entire debut album will be available via iTunes and other online digital outlets in the spring.

A second charity release, also due this spring, will feature the album track "Strange Angel" in addition to two non-LP tracks. The "Strange Angel" EP will benefit Autism Speaks.

While WARGASM is primarily known as Boston's premiere thrash metal band, having released three highly acclaimed albums between 1988 and 1995, the 12 songs included on the ROBOT MONSTER ARMY CD offer up something decidedly different. "I hope the music has a late-70's metal vibe", says Mayo, who wrote all of the music and lyrics himself. "I got into music when I was around 14, in 1977-78. All of the records that inspired me as a musician came out then; after punk happened, but before the NWOBHM. Classics by JUDAS PRIEST, UFO, SABBATH, RAINBOW, AC/DC, SCORPIONS, BOC, THIN LIZZY, KISS, RUSH, AEROSMITH, BUDGIE, CHEAP TRICK… That's the music in my bones, and that's the kind of stuff that came out when I started writing. So it's a little different than what people might expect from the players involved."

The entire project, including artwork posted on the project's MySpace page, has the look and sound of a reissued '70s hard rock record, complete with two "bonus tracks"; one of them live. Live? Hmmm… "It wasn't actually recorded live; we just made it sound that way," said Mayo. "I really wanted this to come across as a re-release of a late-'70s rock album, with a couple of 'obscurities' added on to the remaster."

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