Zombie Jesus Sessions

Hi! Time for an update.

Back in Easter, we got together and filmed ourselves playing four of our songs. Hence the Zombie Jesus Sessions. These were a lot of fun to do and a great learning experience for us. We will definitely do these again, but with some improvements made.

As I write this, I’m 3 vocal sessions away from being done with our 9th album. I’ve been mixing these last few weeks and feeling good about it. This is definitely mine and Brad’s favorite JS record. There are quite a few other miscellaneous things to track (as well as most of Alan’s guitar solos), so the release might have to get pushed back. But right now, I’m hoping to release a first single in March 2027. Lots of stuff to make in the meantime.

The 10th album has all the drums tracked, I’ve just been too busy to get started on tracking all my stuff in earnest. But that’s life. I try to schedule everything out and I should be able to hit that in September. It’s going to be a really fun radio-friendly hard rock album with some Indonesian spices.

Also, the demos are done for our 11th album. I took some time this last week to finish those. I’m excited for this one. A very chaotic record, which I can see myself leaning into more in the future.

Thanks for reading!

GUERRILLA GORILLA

Today our 8th studio album came out! Guerrilla Gorilla is our heaviest record (by design) and we are super happy with the results. There is no way this album would have the punch it does if not for Brad Dickert’s amazing drumming, engineering, and comping. Nor would it shriek without the lead guitar stylings of Alan Sosa. We had a great time working on this mammoth!

I’ll write more about the songs and what the album is about but I want to let people listen and find meaning for themselves first.

Aside from that, our 9th album is pretty far along. All the drums and guitars/bass/synths are done. Now I’m tracking vocals and I’m about halfway done. After that will be adding Alan’s lead guitars and then I think we’ll be done. Brad also finished drums on our 10th album last month. While he was rocking those tunes out, I was tracking demos for album 12. The production-side of things is going great!

But where we have been failing miserably is in the social media/live show department. You know, the part where we have to put ourselves out there. It’s been my fault. I’ve been building on sand. But it’s alright. 2026 will be a year to focus on exactly those things. So no album next year. Although we will always be recording and bankrolling our 14 album series.

marching along

Hey there! Just wanted to write a little update about what we have going on.

We’ve been rehearsing when we can, but it’s a bit tough with life being as busy as it is. Brad, Alan, and myself are pleased to have Will Hensley joining us on bass for some live shows! Now we feel like groundhogs poking our heads out for the first time in half a decade and we’re finding the landscape here in LA is a very different place.

But our droll continues to sound. We’ve been releasing singles from our upcoming 8th album, Guerrilla Gorilla. The idea for this record formulated in my head back around 2016 or 2017… when the list of albums I had that I one day wanted to record began to take on a shape, conducting electricity from record to record almost like entries in a long book series. But I’ll write about that more once the record is actually out.

So far, we’ve released Primitive Contagions, The Beast, and Seconal. We have two more singles scheduled out until the album release (November 5th). The reception has been great. I’m aware a sizable chunk of my audience likes their Johnny on the heavy side. So I’m pleased we’re releasing this grumpy mammoth of a record. This record was intentionally written to be the heaviest in our discography (although album 11 will give it a run for it’s money).

Album #9 is well underway. Drums, bass, and rhythm guitars are all done (as well as synths and other textures). Next up I have all the vocals to track and then Alan can lay down his lead guitars. Meanwhile, Brad has already started tracking drums for album #10. So we are marching along at a good clip. We’d like to release a record a year, but more than likely it’ll be a new record every 1.5 or 2 years. There’s just so much to do.

Oh, and we re-released the original 4 Johnny Stranger albums on Bandcamp. And we also released a compilation record of B-sides from those early years. Give em a listen!

Gorillas of '25

Hey there strangers. Just a little hello. Very little.

New record is coming this year (our 8th album). This one is a bit heavier. First single is coming in May this year. The band is rehearsing and making some plans for finally playing live again. In the meantime, we’re getting all the visuals together for the new release. So keep an eye out!

NIGHTMARES IN TECHNICOLOR

Well damn, here we are.  Today is the release of our 7th album, Nightmares in Technicolor!  

I honestly couldn’t be happier.  This evil little sci-fi horror record has gotten me through a lot of dark moments in life, including the passing of my dad in 2020.  I’ll write more about individual songs and what they’re about… but I want to give folks a chance to listen first and draw their own conclusions.  But I will say this is a record for dark times and for the terrors of transformation and loss.

And here’s something new… this time we got CDs made.  I haven’t had a Johnny record replicated on CD since… 2009?  I think the last time was our third album, Galacticus 9.  I love having tangible medium and this seemed like a fun opportunity.  And who knows… if you listeners are interested in them, I might just get CDs made for the other records.

Limited edition CDs in Digipaks available at JohnnyStranger.com

It’s especially fun to release this album while I’m completing the mixes on the following record.  Ha ha.  Feels good to keep surging ahead.  But yeah.  Next year’s music is nearly done.  Now I have to start tending to the art content for it (although we already have art for all the songs and album 8 itself).  But I digress.  Today is for Nightmares in Technicolor.

I hope you like it and share it with your friends!  The word of mouth for all of this is what really keeps the Johnny ship sailing.  So thanks for listening!  And reaching out!  I hope you find something in Nightmares in Technicolor to sink your fangs into.