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Official My Great Escape Press Release
Combining the musical styles of alternative, hard rock, classical, progressive, and heavy metal, F.H.O.D. (The Flying Hamsters of Doom) have sharply honed their own distinctive sound.


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F.H.O.D. Puts it All Together with New Release
Imagine you could take Godsmack back in time, to the late 1970’s. Imagine then that Getty Lee was taken from the rock mogul Rush, named lead singer of Godsmack and thrown into a pool of rock riffage, where he didn’t play bass and was greeted with a jungle of drums. If you can imagine that, then you can understand F.H.O.D.’s newest album “My Great Escape.

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Express-Times CD Review
With a name like The Flying Hamsters of Doom, there are really only two possible outcomes: cheesy, Spinal Tap pseudo rock or snarling, chest-pumping, knock-you-on-the-ground heavy-metal.

"My Great Escape" falls into the latter.
The album meanders in and out of chunky speed metal ("False Prophets") and distorted hard rock ("Kings and Queens," "You Can Only Tell (From the Accident))" without becoming too overindulgent.
Front-woman KK's siren wail is the most dominant sound in the band's arsenal as she spouts off against former lovers and anyone else foolish enough to get in her way.
Guitarist Tom Howell, bassist Dimitri Kontos and drummer Jason Stiltner provide a beefed-up backbone and solid rhythm section -- holding back just enough to let the music do most of the talking.

Pod picks: "Kings and Queens," "False Prophets."

THE HUNT: Chicago's Majestic and Melodic F.H.O.D.
I first caught Chicago-based F.H.O.D. live at a local Southside club on the night the band was debuting its new album My Great Escape. [See: http://www.myspace.com/kkfhod]

And, much to my own astonishment, there were many moments during the band's set when my hair stood on end and shivers went up my spine - not from fright, but from the sheer emotionality induced by the power, drama, and conviction of the music and its spellbinding delivery via front-woman K.K. and Company (bassist Dimitri Kontos, guitarist Tom Howell, and drummer Jason Stiltner).



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