Brown Brigade Nearing Completion Of Debut

Brown Brigade, the band led by former Sum 41 guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh, are close to completing their debut album.

According to the band's MySpace page, they entered Bluesound Studios in mid-January to start working on the Aquarius album. Baksh, who will handle most of the lead vocals, says that the LP will sound different than debut track "Appetizer For Destruction."

"'Appetizer' was recorded in a cement basement — very lo-fi — which is how we wanted it," the band wrote in a January post on their MySpace blog. "Will it be heavy? We're into playing around with a lot of styles, but this album will be basically a hard rock/metal album (with a few curveballs)."

The band are keeping things free of production trickery and adding sounds or instruments, and describe the record as "a good raw metal album" with humorous lyrics.

The album will be mixed in Los Angeles in March by Toby Wright, who has worked with Corrosion Of Conformity.

Brown Brigade toured Canada in October and are expected to do it again this summer.

Although no album title has been coined, Brown Brigade say it won't be called Guyanese Democracy, a shot at Guns N' Roses' long-awaited Chinese Democracy.