Johnny Wore Black are a four piece British classic rock band fronted by vocalist Jay Coen.
All The Rage is their debut single which also serves as a trailer for a full length album entitled Walking Underwater due out late 2012.
Coen is a former Royal Marine Commando and the song is inspired by a dead marine ("a soldier in the grave"). The fact that it has been adopted by Armed Forces charities Help For Heroes and the Canadian Hero Fund illustrates the fact that the focus is on this tragic loss of life rather than any anti-war sentiment.
It opens with a montage of spoken word samples from the 1967 film The London Nobody Knows which was directed by Coen's late father. These clips end with the words: "the world's in a turmoil".
The track is produced David Bottrill whose CV includes Tool, Placebo and also features guest bass guitar from Megadeth's David Ellefson.
The serious theme and mainstream rock sound suggests the band have their sights set on becoming future stadium fillers but to fulfil this ambition they'll need songs with more power and originally than this one.
