Billboard.com:
What about Chosen Son out of Baltimore?
Nikki Sixx:
That band to me has that almost adolescent, raw energy that is so missing in a lot of the bands I'm hearing on the radio right now. Hearing them for the first time I went, "Okay, I want to hear this on the radio," and I think if I do, a lot of people do. A lot of people I've played songs for say, "Where have these guys been hiding?"
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Chosen Son "Burn Baby Burn"
"Chosen Son as a band just started to form about a year ago. Chosen Son as a concept started about a few years back while I was on tour playing drums, says frontman/singer/songwriter John Allen. "I realized that banging on a non-melodic instrument was only going to influence our music to a certain degree. So, I wrote a bunch of songs, played all the instruments, except for a few, and made a video." While attending one of the band's shows WIYY 98 ROCK MD/APD Rob Heckman said he wanted to add the song "Let's Rock-N-Roll" and we said HELL YES!!! The song wound up TOP TEN for a few months prompting John to shoot a blind email to Eleven Seven Music/10th St. Mgm't. "I mean the song wasn't even available for release yet! and we are in medium rotation!" The partnership with the label may lead to greater things but for John it's not about glamour. "It's just back to the basics... rocking the fuck out! I just want to get in a van and play music. I would love to play all over the globe - no matter if it's for 50,000 or 50 people. I can't wait to step out on stage behind the microphone instead of being behind the drumkit. Just doing the music that I love with good friends, that's the most important thing to me right now." Joining John onstage is Jason Heiser on drums and longtime friends and former bandmates Nick Kay, Anthony Arambula and brother Vic Karrera on guitar, bass and guitar respectively.
Chosen Son's music has been described by www.away-team.com magazine as: " ...this killer new band that resembles Jet on an asphalt diet with a little Iggy Pop & The Stooges thrown in for extra salt! Chosen Son is every bit as relevant as bands like The White Stripes, The Hives, and the aforementioned Jet are today, but they have an appealing and very edgy punk tendency to them that makes them a bit more enjoyable for harder rockers like myself. (Their music) is a road paved with nothing but an alcohol induced, shit-kicking, tire burning bar fight that would make Jack Nicholson piss his pants! But more than anything else, it’s bringing back the raw, unbridled stuff that made music fun in the late 70’s and early 80’s. John has forged a killer lineup from veteran talent that equals his brilliance as a songwriter and lead vocalist. Check out this cool collection of punk-n-roll mayhem".
