Since hatching a mere two years ago, Fake Shark Real Zombie has emerged as one of the West Coast's most lethal weapons. Mixing screamo vocals, spooky ska, off-kilter metal, gang vocals, and whatever else is necessary to achieve their galvanizing, electrifying ends, the group unleashes torrents of noise like 'Monday Tuesday What the Fuck?' a track featuring calypso bass-lines over torrid punk beats. The thumping, jumping 'Wolf is the New the' is all Rock Star Energy Drink rhythms and blood-curdling screams.

The group's sound has earned it opening slots for acts like Mindless Self Indulgence, the Klaxons, Test-Icicles and Hot Hot Heat, where Fake Shark's polarizing show leaves audiences asking whether they've just witness the saviours of new millennium rock or if they should call a lawyer. Variously described as dance-punk, art-punk, and with comparisons to the Blood Brothers, Les Savy Fav and now-defunct NME favourites Test Icicles, the band has earned a rep for shows marked by confrontations with audience members, with each other, and with their own equipment. And, while North Americans are still catching up to Fake Shark's post-post-everything anarchy, audiences elsewhere, like the UK, have taken to the band like, well, a shark to blood.

Band Website: www.myspace.com/fakesharkrealzombie