Pride Tiger

Bio:Vancouver's Pride Tiger is four guys linked by a record collection, a real record collection, as in vinyl, and a shared love of music from the seventies.

See, three of the band members - drummer/vocalist Matt Wood and guitarists Bob Froese and Sunny Dhak - used to be in the highly respected, still-going-strong metal act 3 Inches of Blood, and Mike Payette was in S.T.R.E.E.T.S, but something wasn't ringing true for them. "I just felt like it wasn't gonna be it for me," says Wood. "I really loved 3 Inches of Blood and loved those guys, but it wasn't fulfilling enough playing in a heavy metal band."

Froese, Payette, and Dhak first met Wood when he played in Goatsblood and they all lived together in a "crazy old dirty punk house." It was there that they marveled over each other's record collections. "I don't even listen to CDs," says Wood. "As you can tell, there aren't many people like us around. We started trading records. 'Have you heard of this band?' Then, we were like, 'We have to start a band.' We'd just sit around and drink and talk records."

On their self-titled debut for EMI Music Canada, produced, engineered and mixed by Matt Hyde (Slayer, Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu), they modernize the glorious 70's rock style, resulting in 13 songs that are powerful, sweaty, hooky, suitably head-banging and one big party. No need to dress up or wash your hair. Songs like "Let Em Go," Long Way Down," "What It Is," "Fill Me In" and "Forget Everything" are all that's needed.