Daniel Davies – Guitar/Vocals | Rich Mullins – Bass | Brad Hargreaves – Drums

When the Devil comes to Moscow in The Master and Margarita—the once banned, but now classic 1929 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov that loosely inspires Year Long Disaster’s new album, Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed—he asks a question that rock music has always willingly embraced; “What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?”

Without evil, there is no good. Without shadows, there is no beauty. Without contraries there can be no progression.

Ever since the countercultural movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s spawned heavy, acid and psychedelic rock, one of rock’s mythological obligations to culture has been to reclaim the chaotic and mutinous contrary energies that have been otherwise exiled to the fringes of experience through social codification.

These fringes are the setting for Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed, a landscape peopled by figures—whores, despots, lovers, traitors and dreamers—liberated from the myth that innocence is exalted but haunted by the perpetual threat of spiritual disappointment and emotional disaster that experience has taught them to expect. The innocent may perceive more clearly, but they don’t know what they’re looking for. That is the devil’s wisdom, his black magic.

The energy generated by these tensions perfectly suits the band’s sound, one that is fueled by Daniel Davies’ howling vocals and blistering guitar that flirts with the limits of control, only to be disciplined back into order by unexpected melodies and the famously tight bass and drums of Rich Mullins and Brad Hargreaves, respectively.

Since their formation in late 2004, Year Long Disaster have channeled the bastardized muddy blues stomps of their forefathers and overlaid them with their own flash and drama. Their 2007 self-titled debut landed them tours with The Cult, Velvet Revolver, and the Foo Fighters, as well as praise from critics and fans alike, including Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister (with whom they also toured) who told Kerrang! Magazine that “Year Long Disaster plays rock and roll music like rock and roll should be played.”

At the close of 2008, with two years of international touring behind them, the band secured Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Rush, Marilyn Manson) to produce their new album. Conceptualized for years and written on tour, Black Magic’s basic tracks were completed with Raskulinecz in just sixteen days at the famed Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed was released in the Europe/U.K. on March 8th and in the U.S. on March 9th, 2010.