Taken from www.samhellmusic.com

sam Hell, the individual and the band, came to be in the The West. He was brought up into privilege and opportunity and knew a world with no limitations, where everything could be his if he simply wanted to reach out and take it. Music sought sam out very early and completely eliminated any hope of sam doing anything else. This was not what his parents had planned for him, but his musical focus was largely ignored and even accepted by his parents since it kept him occupied and out of trouble. That would all change if sam decided to form a band and take his love and joy for music outside of himself and to the world at large. His family could not allow this; he would have to conform or be cast out. sam wanted to leave The West to create music without boundary or prejudice. His parents, knowing that his will would not be broken, took the opportunity to send him to school in any place he wanted. sam had just finished his last year of high school and could enter any program that would have him, just as long as it was for a career job. sam obliged his parents and put the idea of a band on hold as he knew that they only wanted to protect him.

He chose the University of High School and entered a general arts program. sam didn't know what he could ever want to do besides play music, but he also knew that any learning would be acceptable to his parents as long as it didn't include music studies. This suited sam just fine as he thought any formal study of music would only injure his creativity. Anything he needed to learn from music, music would eventually show him. His journey led him downtown The Very Big City and into the wild and varied neighborhood called Freetown. The area, known for its mix of multiculturalism and personal freedom was perfect for sam and he embraced all that it had to offer. He had never lived anywhere in the Far East and certainly never in a place with more than a million people. A collision of cultures created the fabric of his world, and this is where he would meet the band that would soon bear his name. A group of musicians who grew up free to listen to anything without prejudice, they shaped the pallet for the colours sam saw.

School started, but for the most part it started without sam. He maintained good grades but each week he spent less and less time in class. sam chose to spend all his time with the musicians he had met when he moved to the Very Big City, and their musical bonds grew tighter. The musicians sam had found could play with anyone, and they were all good enough to sit in with the most serious musical monsters in The Very Big City. In spite of that, they stuck with sam because they saw in sam had the one thing that no other musician they knew had…vision. Without planning it or deserving it sam discovered how to communicate to anyone who could listen, regardless of race, age or position in life. Now he just needed something to say.

sam's life changed on the 5th of November that year when he stumbled across a book by an unknown writer called “Be a Revolution.” The book had no publisher, no serial number and no place of origin, just an e-mail address printed on the inside cover under the title and the name of the author. The name of the author a single word, neither first nor last, just simply Brone. sam tried to purchase the book but the store had no idea where it came from or what to charge since it had no markings, and they let him take it for free. The book opened sam's eyes to all the pain and joy available in life, so much more than he had ever known possible, and he read the book from cover to cover in a single day. sam could no longer hide from the The Very Big City, with its calamity and beauty, and The Very Big City could no longer hide from sam. He now saw all that was present AND all that was missing…but he needed more. He needed to know how to change the darkness of what he saw into light, if he could only meet the author. sam remembered the e-mail address on the inside cover of the book and e-mailed Brone to ask him what magical secret could possibly unlock the mysteries contained inside the book. In an instant, as sam pressed send, a reply appeared in his inbox. It was an email from Brone, and it simply read “the secret is Love…we were all made to have one last chance.”

The next day, still overwhelmed by all that he had seen, sam read the book again and found the deeper meaning he so badly needed. When he looked through the Lens Of Love at all the ecstasies and tragedies of life contained in the book, and he realized that we were all made to have one last chance, he knew that any wrong could be made right and any grievance forgiven. Love could be as simple as a smile on your face or as big as death being taken apart, and because of Love there is still blood in the veins of The Very Big City.

sam knew what he had to do, and he immediately set about doing it. You can find out what that is this May, with the release of sam Hell's debut album. Go to www.samhellmusic.com to find out more, and don't forget to face the knowledge that the truth is not the truth…