Max Raptor

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The anthemic candour of Midlands four-piece Max Raptor fuses classic British punk attitude with an
astute sensibility to a ballsy riff, forthright narrative and infectious hook-fuelled chant.
Having spent the last year touring, playing live and writing and recording debut material, building up a head
of steam, a reputation for raucous and energetic live shows and a UK fan base in the process, Max Raptor
followed up their first two single releases (‘Ghosts’ in Oct and ‘The Great and the Good’ in March last year)
with their debut full length, 8-track ‘’Portraits’ on 11th April ’11 to unanimous praise in the rock and online
press and support from BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, Kerrang! Radio, BBC Introducing and XFM.

Max Raptor’s debut mini-album ‘Portraits’ is exactly
that: micro-sketches of society, framing scraps of the
world around them, painting with ambition, arrogance,
anger, disillusion, greed, joy, futility, violence and
pride. From alcohol abuse to domestic violence, from
maddening jealousy to plain ineffectuality, ‘Portraits’
illustrates humanity’s divergent weaknesses. As
explained by front man Will Ray; “Hysteria is a state of
panic but it is also a word we use often to describe a
state of joy. ‘Portraits’ says that from the rich to the poor
to the famous, we all have a capacity to hate and to do
wrong, and if we cannot celebrate that unanimity in
music…well…I hate you all.”
Max Raptor at Download Festival 2011
Max Raptor, in their mid-20s, concede that the contrived nu-metal era was (thankfully) a gateway to the
essential alternative listening they treasure today; including the classic punk of The Clash and The
Buzzcocks, new-wave of The Jam, pop-edge of Manic Street Preachers, post-stadium riffage of The Foo
Fighters, not to mention the raw extremities and energy of contemporaries such as Zico Chain, Cancer
Bats and The Ghost Of A Thousand.