Russian Band, Naked Gun, Aims for Glam Metal's Return: An Interview

Grudge killed glam. Any true metal fan who lived through the early nineties knows that. Rock audiences became depressed, sucked into a whirlwind of dirty hair, flannel shirts, and raw, unbridled anger. Yes, children. The history books say grudge killed glam. But the writers of those books had forgotten the truth. Glam is actually immortal. The hair-teasing, lipstick wearing, cod-piece donning, most sexually appealing movement of heavy metal has risen again in the form of Naked Gun -- five hot rockers from Moscow.. Taking the glam metal movement to whole new lengths, Naked Gun is louder, faster, sexier, and powerful enough to make metal's favorite music here to stay.

"Naked Gun is a rock 'n' roll [rifle] barrel, loaded with the sexual energy of the 80s, and aimed directly at your heart," says front man Alex Gun, whose tongue-wagging stage presence is part of the ammunition that blasts out of Naked Gun. Just a sip of his swagger and a gulp of his signature glam vocals with a little twist of new wave is enough to mentally whisk fans away to a favorite place in their hearts faster than a warm bath filled with steamy water and Calgon. It was Alex Gun's personal love of glam that conceived Naked Gun -- a love for the music that reaches out to the audience and enchants fans, leaving them wild-eyed, tied to the stage, and screaming lustful pleas for more.

The band went through a series of trial and error before completing its assembly in 2005. "Alex Gun had decided to form a classic glam rock band and wrote eight songs. "I had known him before the band was formed, and I really like glam [music]," says guitarist BitterGlam, "That's why I decided to [play] lead guitar in a new band."

Alex Gun had discovered rhythm guitarist D-Rock at a Judas Priest show, while drummer Sinktur joined them sometime during late 2005. But the band discovered that booking gigs around Russia for a young glam band is just as challenging as attempting the same task in the U.S. "Glam metal isn't so popular in Russia, " explains Alex Gun, "there are some glam bands that play in clubs -- as it was in the 70s through the 80s -- there weren't any glam bands in Russia."