Artist: MONSTER TRUCK
Album: SITTIN’ HEAVY (DIGI)

Year: 2016
EAN/UPS: 819873012597
Media type: CD

Monster Truck doesn’t need a lot of explaining.  Hailing from industrial Hamilton, Ontario, also known by nicknames The Hammer, Steel Town and Ambitious City, they are a blue collar working man’s rock band that get their hands dirty. Sittin’ Heavy says as much in those two words as any page-long bio.

Monster Truck hasn’t swerved from what fans come to expect of them. The name just embodies everything they are and invites a sense of community. This isn’t music for hipsters or someone with a special understanding of a scene: “It’s that kind of simplicity from the sound to the name to the imagery, the thing is that anyone can help out with it because they get it. Even the newest fan that is getting involved with the band for the first time, they know what our package should sound like and what kind of t-shirts we should have. Everyone gets it.”

That goes for their newest album Sittin’ Heavy as well.  Jeremy, frontman/bassist Jon Harvey, organist/vocalist Brandon Bliss and drummer/vocalist Steve Kiely had that title long before they had even started recording again with producer Eric Ratz.  Monster Truck was sitting in the catering room at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee when Steve, after a plentiful meal, declared, “Oh, man, I’m sitting heavy.”  “I was like, ‘We should name the album that,’” says Jeremy.

Produced by Ratz at Vespa Studios and Revolution Recording in Toronto and Monster Truck’s new jam-space studio, Sittin’ Heavy charges out of the gate with the lead track “Why Are You Not Rocking?”  The song says it all — it’s a celebration for fans that come out to concerts in all sorts of weather and circumstances to just rock out and have a good time. And that’s essentially what Monster Truck has also been doing for the past six years. Always writing, the guys demoed in their new studio, sending the tracks to Ratz for his feedback before starting to record album number two with him. They took a break from recording in May 2015 to support Nickelback in Australia, testing out some of the new songs on a brand new audience, before completing the record that will be released on February 19, 2016 on Mascot Records.

 “It’s always been a huge strength for us and a way we’ve been able to market the band because there’s no confusion. It’s called Monster Truck. You know what it sounds like before you even hear what we sound like or at least have an idea what we do sound like — and then we do. And it’s is such a comforting thing for somebody to hear the name of the band and then sounds like how they expected it to sound. You can’t put a price on that.”

TRACKLIST CD:

1.    Why Are You Not Rocking?
2.    Don't Tell Me How to Live
3.    She's a Witch
4.    For the People
5.    Black Forest
6.    Another Man's Shoes
7.    Things Get Better
8.    The Enforcer
9.    To The Flame
10.    New Soul
11.    Enjoy the Time