Heaven's Basement at Bowery Electric

British hard rock band Heaven's Basement has stormed European stages since 2008 and finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean to tour Canada with Buckcherry in January. Any hard rocking, hard-touring band needs to break the U.S. market, however. To help launch this effort, Heaven’s Basement performed a showcase at Bowery Electric tonight for an audience largely comprised of affiliates of Red Bull Records, which recently released the band’s debut album, Filthy Empire.

Although new to the American stage, Heaven’s Basement demonstrated tonight that it not only performs good hard rocking music well, but that it is destined for much larger stages; the small stage confined the high energy band. The band brought back the heyday of MTV rock, trading blistering riffs, solos, melody and groove with dynamic sing-along choruses featuring two and three-part harmony. This was a throwback to the era of Poison, Def Leppard and Aerosmith, with a brief dash of thrash, rap and even blues to modernize the sound. Heaven’s Basement returns to New York with a date at Irving Plaza on May 23.