The garage-punk band Johnny Mafia hails from Sens, France–a part of the world more known for their wheat and cereal production than in-your-face rock & roll. On November 9th the group will release their sophomore LP Princes de l’Amour via the London-based label Dirty Water Records. This month the band delivered “Big Brawl,” our first listen in on the upcoming, Jim Diamond produced record.
The track opens with a sinister sounding Black Metal drone, but it serves only to throw you off the scent of just what the group has cooking on this adrenaline-drenched cut. Mixing guitar-driven garage hooks with a high-octane grunge of low-end, “Big Brawl” is a riotous collage of punk-laced influences. The video for the track was directed by Nathan Bouam, and it finds Johnny Mafia presiding over a Satanic orgy of Fight Club violence. With leather-clad ruffians hyped up on raw meat, this no-holds-barred brawl features Goths versus Goons in a mosh pit of death.
