In mid February, Canada’s legendary punk rock band D.O.A. will start recording a new album in time for their 30th anniversary. The production will be handled by mega producer Bob Rock (Metallica, The Cult, Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, Motley Crue).

Sudden Death Records is ecstatic about the upcoming release of “Northern Avenger.” The tentative release date for Canada is May 2008 and August 2008 for the rest of the world. D.O.A., led by Canada’s punk godfather Joe Shithead Keithley, has teamed up with co-conspirators bassist Randy Rampage and drummer James Hayden and come up with a ton of great new songs.

Bob Rock got his start with his band The Payolas who, along with D.O.A. and others, helped start Vancouver’s gritty underground punk scene back in 1978.  Bob produced some of the great early pop punk bands like the Young Canadians and the Pointed Sticks at Vancouver’s famous Little Mountain Sound. D.O.A. also recorded their classic early singles The Prisoner/13 and World War 3/Whatcha Gonna Do? at Little Mountain Sound with the help of Ron Obvious and Bob Rock. Bob later went onto world-wide fame producing bands like Metallica, The Tragically Hip and Bon Jovi.

The songs on "Northern Avenger" cover a lot of fertile and explosive ground, as you would expect from a D.O.A. album. Songs like Human Bomb, Police Brutality and Crossfire are political and on fire. There’s also the humor you would expect from D.O.A. on Devils’ Speedway and Donnybrook. All in all, it will be a blistering collection of songs.

Release schedule and D.O.A. tour dates will be announced shortly.

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