About Me
Back in the late summer of 1990, Damien Perry, Brian Skinner, Chris Gorman, and I formed a rock band and named it Red Giant. We shared a connection through a love of classic punk, rock, and metal bands- like AC/DC, Motorhead, The MC5, Black Sabbath, and The Stooges. We worked crazy jobs at gas stations and demolition companies to buy some Les Pauls and some Marshall Stacks and by the time we all graduated high school we were ready to record our noise.
In 1995, Red Giant released Psychoblaster and the Misuse of Power, cementing our footprint on the emerging stoner rock scene. As years unfolded, we shared stages with many of our favorite bands...Mule, Voivod, Hawkwind, Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Nebula, and Hermano to name just a handful.
In 1998, we released our second CD, Ultramagnetic Glowing Sound on New York's Tee Pee Records which was also home to cool bands like The Atomic Bitchwax, and High on Fire. Derek Hess created the artwork for the CD, keeping to the band's theme of the cosmic welder. This was around the time we started traveling more, playing showcases at The Continental and CBGB's in New York City.
Then in 2004 we released Devil Child Blues on Small Stone Records out of Detroit Michigan- home to some of our favorite bands like Honky, Valis, and Dixie Witch. This lead to several tours of the U.S. including a couple of trips down to Austin Texas for South by Southwest. We even appeared in a few commercials on MTV2. We continued rocking stages with great bands like Clutch, Mushroomhead, and Monster Magnet; I was even asked to sing a set with Monster Magnet when Dave Wyndorf's throat hurt during a stop in Cleveland. Hard living and personal tensions lead to some brutal fist fights on stage between band members eventually causing us to break up in 2006.
In a year that saw the marriages of two band members (including my own), my father's death and very nearly the death of me when i was stabbed in the chest... Damien, Brian, Chris, and myself came to the realization that life's too short to fuck around when there's rock to be made.
With the addition of drummer Eric Matthews (ex- Propain, Spudmonsters) to the line up, we're back on the horse and recording our next CD for Small Stone. It's some brutal speed rock and we're gonna hit you hard with it.
Prepare yourselves.
Later.
Alex Perekrest
