***Young New Classic British Rock Band’s Hard Boogying Kevin Shirley-Produced Debut Album ‘Eden’ Unleashed May 25th*** “British by blood but southern by riff, Draven mix megawatt hard rock with dusty southern boogie and couple it all to pointed lyrics about our weird world and its inevitable downfall. Their debut album, the Kevin Shirley-produced ‘Eden’, is a sprawling cinematic epic, half cowboy bar brawl & half monsters of rock arena smasher” – Classic Rock Magazine, Issue 121, Summer 2008.

‘Eden’, the upcoming album from new identical-twin-fronted young British Hard Rockers Draven, is, not to put too fine a point on it, an astonishingly accomplished contemporary debut offering. All killer and absolutely no filler, each and every one of the eleven original compositions on ‘Eden’ has ‘classic’ stamped all over it.

Fronted by identical twins Frank and Jim Paoli on guitar and vocals, backed up by the earth pounding Danny Wood on drums and hard plunking Alex de la Fuente on bass, Draven are all set to blast into the rock stratosphere with the release of ‘Eden’ on CNR Records, distributed by Cargo, on May 25th.

Frank and Jim started writing songs together at the age of 12, inspired by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Cream, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool and Muse.

The twins were born into a musical family in their native Surrey.  Frank met Alex at work in 2002 and bonded over their passion for music.  Danny passed an audition in 30 seconds flat and the boys were ready to riff! The band took their name from a character named Eric Draven, played by Brandon Lee in  ‘The Crow’ movie, and began building up a live following playing all over Surrey, London and the South of England.

Having enjoyed playing prestigious open air festivals such as Guilfest (with Alice Cooper in 2004) and Eagle FM’s Party In The Park (3 years in a row) Draven have even created their own local annual open air Halloween festival known as Freakfest. With more than an album’s worth of songs under Draven’s belts, their management began looking for a suitable producer and sent off a demo to Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley, in Los Angeles, on the off chance. Astonishingly, Kevin, who has produced, mixed or engineered albums by Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Aerosmith, Metallica, Black Crowes, Bon Jovi etc, loved the songs and invited the band to Los Angeles to record ‘Eden’.

Draven jumped at the chance and flew over last summer to record ‘Eden’, a concept album inspired by the tale of ‘Paradise Lost’, which tells the story of how everything was perfect in the beginning, but has descended into the cruel and ugly world we humans have now turned it into. Ultimately though, Draven’s message is a positive, uplifting one of hope and encouragement, which is captured perfectly on ‘Eden, a stunning debut which will make you punch the air in delight as it cascades out of the speakers.

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