Overseas, SALMON's debut album, "ROCK FORMATIONS" is garnering the kind of praise befitting such an extreme and complex outfit of six guitars and two drummers.

On the one hand Denmark 's Low Cut are saying, "If you have heart troubles, avoid listening to this record .. a vicious aggressive kick in the nuts … if you dig Slayer, Hawkwind and Sabbath, you'll love this – four stars" . In the UK Stewart Lee of Sunday Times London says, "…a clever cubist critique .. an act of genius – four stars!" The Spanish press are even more slavish saying "Blues, heavy metal, rock n roll, even pop are extrapolated into symphonic movements like a rain of steel from this squadron of Junkers bombers." Ruta 66

It's not just overseas that they've been garnering high praise.

Here in Melbourne , "Rarely has the line between genius and madness been so obscured – four stars" – Jeff Glorfeld, The Age, and it's "the soundtrack for a journey through the suburbs in a hotted up Monaro" – Patrick Emery, Beat Magazine.

If, you're still not sure……

SALMON play the East Brunswick Club on Thursday August 2nd.

Cover charge is a puny $12.

Support is Batrider.

There will be copies of "ROCK FORMATIONS" on cd or double gatefold vinyl for you to buy so that you can own an 'act of the genius' too.