British band Hopeless Heroic who Fuse the disparate elements of Muse, Mozart and Metallica with the pump and grind of Hip Hop, Hopeless Heroic are as distinctive as they are driven. Intended to assume some individuality, the result forms an edgy yet commercial sound, as monstrous as it is beautiful. And on Nov 23 2009, when the band's 'Mechanical Lions' EP hits the stores, you can hear what we mean.

Released on the band's own label it is five tracks of heads down riffery colliding headlong with infectious choruses and a rock-fuelled violin player. Yep, you heard us - violin player. Hopeless Heroic provide the winning blow, the finale and happy ending to singer Gavin's Bain's biography California Schemin' which is one of the most anticipated books of 2010 and is already in the process of being adapted for the big screen by Irvine Welsh. Indeed 2010 looks set to be a pretty special year for Hopeless Heroic.

Following on from having sold out legendary London venues such as the Barfly and Water Rats, the quintet intend to hit the road and support the release of their debut album. Aside from a fine stand-alone project, the debut album also acts as the soundtrack to the aforementioned book and deals with issues such as identity, confidence, lies, chasing dreams, determination, fame, celebrity, life, death, addiction and suicide while taking you on one hell of a rock n' roll journey of self discovery. The Band have already received national and international airplay and were featured in a documentary on BBC Radio Scotland in February 2009.

Their every move is being captured on film as their music and story is to be subject of a music documentary. They have been featured in cult music web show Svengali and have been tipped by the XFM Scotland DJ and John Peel award winner Jim Gellatly to be the band of 2010. Quietly confident, these five twenty-something's might just melt a hole in a sound system near you soon. Listening to the Mechanical Lions EP is like being strapped to a runaway train passing through an endless series of landscapes at top speed - it's a blurry, enervating, thrilling ride.

"If Hopeless Heroic were a drug they'd be a contemporary mongrel of street amphetamine and old school dreamy Ecstasy. And I'd be standing on the corner waiting for my man every night." Jane Graham - The Guardian "So many twists and turns, you never know what is going to happen next." Jim Gellatly - BBC Radio Scotland

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