L.A. Guns, Pentagram, Armored Saint, Alien Ant Farm, Boy Hits Car, Blaze Francisco, and Philthy Rych

The team of Guns and, former Girl singer, Phil Lewis have sold 6 1/2 million records, including 1988's L.A. Guns and 1990's Cocked and Loaded, both of which were certified Gold. Cocked and Loaded contained the hit single "Ballad of Jayne" that went to #33 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #25 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

From the mid-'90s to the mid-2000s, the L.A. Guns continued to tour and release new music. Following their successful performance at SiriusXM's Hair Nation Festival in May of 2016, L.A. Guns went into the studio to record the album, The Missing Peace, which was released in October of 2017 and quickly became the highest selling release of 2017 for Frontiers Records. L.A. Guns are currently in the studio recording the follow up album to " The Missing Peace ". “The Devil You Know” is the band’s twelfth studio release, featuring the new singles “Stay Away” and “Rage”. They will begin touring for the album beginning in the spring of 2019.

The current lineup features founding member, and lead guitar player, Guns, who has reunited with Lewis on vocals, along with Shane Fitzgibbon on drums, Johnny Martin on bass and Ace Von Johnson on guitar.

Originally comprised of singer Bobby Liebling and guitarist/drummer Geof O’Keefe in 1971, by 1972 Pentagram consisted of Liebling, guitarist Vincent McAllister, bassist Greg Mayne, and Geof O’Keefe on drums. This lineup would prove to last six years during which time the band underwent numerous name changes including Virgin Death, Macabre, and Stone Bunny. The 7” single “Human Hurricane” arrived in 1973 lending influences from Blue Cheer and the Groundhogs, before Pentagram made their debut performance in December that year. Second guitarist Randy Palmer joined in 1974 however departed by 1976 following which the group struggled with raising its profile and courting labels.

In 1978 Liebling became acquainted with local drummer Joey Hasselvander and the two began a fruitful musical relationship. Bassist Martin Swaney joined shortly afterwards and Pentagram returned to performing live and writing new material. After almost 15 years of Pentagram’s existence, the band issued their debut, self-titled full-length album in 1985, the style of which was heavily indebted to Black Sabbath. Despite Pentagram’s doom metal follow-up, 1987’s “A Day of Reckoning”, the group was unable to generate any momentum and failed to acquire another recording deal until 1994. Issued by Peaceville Records, the group released “Be Forewarned” in 1994, however with the rise of grunge, the record failed to find an audience anywhere.

In 1998 an unauthorised collection of rarities and bootlegs arrived, leading Libelling and Hassalvander to capitalise by issuing “Review Your Choices” in 1999 and “Sub-Basement” in 2001. The releases led to an upsurge in popularity for the group who finally received their due as pioneers of the heavy metal genre. An authorised collection of long-lost recordings arrived in 2001 entitled "First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection)", after which the band rereleased their earlier albums including “Relentless” and “Day of Reckoning”.

Trust me on this, there is far more to this band than just that single. In fact, Alien Ant Farm is one of the true originals on Nu-Metal, coming together the year after Korn changed the face of heavy metal with their self-titled debut album.

The band was something pretty unique within the scene itself, a band that had a sense of humour about themselves. For one, their band name came to original lead guitarist Terry Corso through a surprisingly existential thought.

He wondered whether all life on Earth had come from an experiment done by, in his words “entities from other dimensions”, and that we were being monitored by those same creatures like we were living in some kind of Alien Ant Farm.

I’m sure it was a train of thought that had nothing to do with certain smokeable substance whatsoever. At all. Anyway, they stood out at a time when Nu-Metal was a mainstream concern, so of course they were going to be big. It was at that point that “Smooth Criminal” was released; in the lead up to their first major label release “ANThology”.

It went to number one in Australia and New Zealand, top three in the U.K and topped the Modern Rock charts in the U.S. If you were alive and not living under a rock in the summer of 2001, you definitely heard it many times.

Since then the band has released a handful of albums. The band toured solidly through the 2000s as well, performing shows with the likes of Hoobastank, Fuel and on the Vans Warped Tour. There are fewer bands around with more live experience than them. And a night out with Alien Ant Farm, will surely be a night to remember.