Cargo Records

Destroy All Monsters

Helping Eric are such musicians as David Simon-Baker, Jeff Watson, Chris Wilson, Pat Gilles, and André Pessis (guitars), Mark Chole, John Wuopio, John McDill and Kenny Gradney (bass), Denise Martin, Tommy Rickard and Richie Hayward (drums), Harry Hess, David Simon-Baker (background vocals) and Billy Payne on keyboards.

Eric Martin started his career singing at the end of the 70's for a S. Francisco band called 415. With 415, Eric played hundreds of shows opening for established acts like Billy Squier, Hall & Oates, Rick Springfield, Molly Hatchet and Foreigner, to name a few. 415 was signed to Elektra/Asylum Records and "Sucker for a Pretty Face" was released after a name change to the Eric Martin Band (EMB). The band parted ways after returning from a 1984-85 ZZ Top tour. After the breakup, Eric continued to belt out songs and in 1985 and 1987 released "Eric Martin" and "I'm Only Fooling Myself," solo efforts which are lathered with Eric's signature soulful voice and candid lyrics. In 1988-89, Eric would team with Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth, Talas), Pat Torpey (Jeff Paris, Stan Bush) and Paul Gilbert (Racer X) to form Mr. Big. They would enjoy enormous success with the release of 6 studio albums, numerous hit singles and six top-selling live CD's. All combined, worldwide sales topped the seven million mark! Eric's third solo album "Somewhere in the Middle", was written during the 2-year hiatus from Mr. Big and released in 1998 in Asia and Europe. During the summer of 2001 and Eric and the rest of the Mr. Big guys released their last effort "Actual Size". In between promoting and preparing for the upcoming tour, Eric continued to record songs for his fourth solo CD. He promised a return to his "rawk" roots and definitely the resultant album: "I'm Goin' Sane" which gathered excellent critics and was released in Europe on Frontiers Records in late august 2002. After the successful GODS 2002 performance and the Japanese tour, Eric released "Pure", a mini cd that covers hits, in a unplugged and stripped back acoustic form. Finally in January 2004 Eric delivers a brand new studio album entitled "Destroy All Monsters". The music and lyrics were written for this project for a period of about 5 months prior to the recording which happened during the summer 2003 at Eric Martin's home studio "Pepperland". Eric describes the sound of his new album as "distorted pop" and the songs have been written or co-written by Eric with the help of Andre Pessis, Tony Fanucchi, The ITC Brothers, Chris Wilson and Pat Gilles. "This heavy title", Eric explains: "is about freeing yourself from fear, a social and personal statement rolled into one. Nothing to do with politics really, its about dealing with and overcoming frustrations"

Track Listing

What's The Worst That Can Happen; Kansas; I Woke Up 2 Late; Janie Won't Open; Where Are You; You're Too Good For Him; Living In Black And White; Something There; What If; I Can Die Now; Burnin' My Mind; If