‘It shouldn’t be long before these pasty, leather-jacketed rock disciples blow holes in your speakers.’ Kerrang!

No Hope In New Jersey are set to release their new single ‘Decline’ (previously known as ‘New Design In Hell’) on August 8 through Atlantic Records. Following the success of their previous two singles, ‘Narcolepsy’ and ‘Invaders (Of My Space)’, ‘Decline’ sees the quartet stepping things up a gear, with a devastating riff and razor-sharp lyrics, and production courtesy ofChris Sheldon (Therapy?, Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters). No Hope In New Jersey’s debut album Steady Diet Of Decline is due to hit shops on August 22.

‘Our aim is to make music that fuses together all of our favourite bands and capture the initial excitement that we got when we heard artists like Fugazi, Neil Young, Metallica, Bowie, for the first time,’ explains Andy. ‘If we have any influences whatsoever it's wanting to be like those bands that follow their own journey as musicians. Bands that don't need to be part of a particular scene to be what they are. That's what we like.’

Continuous gigging around the country has secured NHINJ an enthusiastic live following, and w ith the album in the bag and the band's enthusiasm at an all-time high 2005 should be a great year for No Hope in New Jersey. Rather than seeing the album as an end it's really just the beginning as NHINJ's live campaign continues apace. ‘ We're not the most overtly macho band in the world like, say, Black Flag back in the day,’ says Andy, ‘but we play with the same abandon and disregard for current convention. And to my mind that's what you really want with a live band. Not this streamlined stuff that passes for punk rock.’ Following a sparkling performance at the Download festival in June, No Hope In New Jersey play Kerrang!’s Rampage club at London’s Scala on July 9.

Visit the official band website: www.nohopeinnewjersey.com