Album Notes

Since their inception two years ago, there has always been an instant air of importance surrounding the explosive San Diego-based band MEDIA LAB. The band members can feel it, the rabid fan base they have cultivated can feel it, and, with the band's debut album, Bleeding Memory, to be released by Sunland Records in January 2006 , the whole world will soon feel it too.

Produced and mixed by former MACHINE HEAD and SOULFLY guitarist Logan Mader, the 13-song album is as epic in scope as it is ferocious in attack, flawlessly alternating between the brutal riffs and memorable melodies that have become the band's trademark. Without a doubt, songs such as album-opener "Embers," "Hate Me Again" and the title track serve as a testimony to the band's heavy roots. But it is their attention to melody in songs such as "Come Alive," "Save Me" and their blistering cover of the classic U2 hit "With Or Without You" that raises MEDIA LAB head and shoulders above their hardcore contemporaries and broadens not only their musical vocabulary, but their fanbase as well. As such, MEDIA LAB is one of the few metal bands that have been embraced by women as well as by men, due to the heartfelt tales of lost love belted out by singer Sean Nelson, a charismatic performer who bleeds for the audience through his words, and the dynamic musicianship of Alexandria Reyes, a female guitar player who, together with former SPRUNG MOKEY guitarist Will Riley, creates a crushing wall of sound.

In a live setting, MEDIA LAB has to be seen to be believed. The band projects a confidence usually found at the arena level, a status they are destined to achieve. Already they have seen attendance at their shows to over 1,000 people in some Southwestern markets as they currently enjoy airplay on San Diego radio stations 91X, Rock 105.3 and 94.9 FM as well as on KOMP 92.2 (Las Vegas). Along the way they have racked up endorsements by Evil Threads & Tribal Clothing, Devious Industries, Sick World, Pearl Drums, Soul Tone Cymbals and Platinum Collectibles. The band was also nominated for Best Hard Rock Band at the recent 15th Annual San Diego Music Awards.