Traffic doesn’t stand a chance: Bang Camaro are back on the highway of rock. The Boston guitar heroes and gang vocalists, hailed as the city’s biggest band (literally) during a ferocious late-2000s heyday that saw them tour North America five years straight and appear on stages everywhere from The Paradise to Late Night with Conan O’Brien to Lollapalooza, return this week with their first new song in over a decade. It’s called “Too Fast to Fall in Love,” and it answers more hair metal questions than it asks.
“Why were bands always coming up with weak excuses to fall in love?” Bang Camaro ask. “Sometimes they were too young. Sometimes they were too fast. Sometimes love would bite and bleed. Actually, that seems like a good reason…”
The other question is why are we getting a Bang Camaro reunion in the first place, especially in this economy. Turns out filmmaker and screenwriter James Gunn is a fan, and placed 2007 rock rager “Push Push (Lady Lightning)” in a trailer and episode of HBO series Peacemaker. The inclusion, and positive reception, inspired twin guitarists Bryn Bennett and Alejandro Necochea and bassist Dave “Doz” Riley to reform the project, and get back in the studio the roughly 20 vocalists that provided the iron pulse of the big Bang Camaro machine.
We’re threatened with more new music quickly on the way, but in the meantime party like you were young again, fire up “Too Fast to Fall in Love” in streaming or video form, and pretend the 2010s never happened.
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