HEADCHARGER SUR LA ROUTE DU METAL N’ ROLL<br><br> HEADCHARGER a refait le plein et arrive pour livrer “The End Starts Here”, son troisième album. Comme une vieille Mustang bien rodée et toujours avide de kilomètres.<br><br> Mais à quoi carbure la vrombissante machine HEADCHARGER ? A un savant mélange deux temps : metal et rock ‘n’ roll. Dans le coffre, deux précédentes galettes sorties en 2005 (Headcharger) et 2007 (Watch the Sun). A son bord, un quintet bas-normand qui aime autant les virils coups d’accélérateur dignes de Every Time I Die (The invention of solitude) que les ambiances rock sudiste à la Lynyrd Skynyrd (Harvey Keitel’s syndrome). Si le bolide embraye sur une sombre complainte que ne renierait pas Alice in Chains (The end starts here), c’est pour mieux repartir sur les chapeaux de roue (Without a nation), tout en laissant parfois échapper de ses vitres baissées un air entraînant d’harmonica (Would you ?). <br><br> Avec plus de 300 concerts au compteur, HEADCHARGER déboule dans les villes de l’Hexagone pour assurer des shows aussi bien réglés qu’un V8 de compétition : rythmique suralimentée, guitares mordantes, chant tour à tour ralenti puis brutal. Préparé par Alan Douches (Mastodon, Sepultura, Fat Boy Slim) au mastering, engagé par l’écurie XIII Bis Records (Mötley Crüe, Nine Inch Nails, Fiction Plane, Skunk Anansie...), HEADCHARGER met les gaz le 25 janvier 2010 pour “The End Starts Here”. <br><br>

In 2004 and after only a few showcases, Driving Dead Girl is short-listed and takes part in the International Dour Festival, but this was only the first step! Following their forerunners’ example, the quartet played several first-parts such as The Rakes, Queen Adreena, Radio4, Tokyo Sex Destruction, Black Angels and many others. Meanwhile, they also recorded a first album: "50,000 Dead Girls Can't be Wrong". Comprising a short selection of only 7 titles, it is recorded under live conditions and mixed in two months fulfilling the then low-end and garage-rock attitude that animated the group.
At this time, Driving Dead Girl also had an exclusive recording contract with “BANG!” which gave them the opportunity to perform all around Belgium and from time to time in France. Unfortunately the then tense atmosphere soon disrupted the shaky organization and both J-F Hermand and André Diaz left the group.

Four years later, after several changes in the band line-up and a neared dead-end, the group finally stabilized. Newcomers Vincenzo Capizzi (drummer) and Dan Diaz (bass player) smashed in, bringing by this very fact a new balance and a new vision to the project. The news spread like a thunderbolt and proposals for concerts and records broke surface again. The band was back on line and the nouveau quartet premièred Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels and Lords Of Altamont . This definitely cemented their brand new stage reputation.

More recently, in January 2010, Driving Dead Girl started the realization of their second album: « Don’t Give a Damn about bad Reputation”. In only 10 titles, the quartet enjoyed renewed success and confirmed their propensity to play and perform with a brutal energy coping with an original rock musical style wherein cinematographic and literary influences, stamped with broken-hearted sadness and despair, sometimes gave in to alcohol abuse, psyched madness and mal-être.