Acclaimed guitarist Jeff Kollman (COSMOSQUAD, CHAD SMITH'S BOMBASTIC MEATBATS, GLENN HUGHES) will debut his new band PERVADELIC on Tuesday, October 5 at the Baked Potato in Studio City, CA. The group which features Kollman on vocals and guitar along with co-guitarist Michael 'Fish' Herring, bassist Jesse Stern, and drummer Jono Brown will be playing "all original would be hits" from their upcoming release, Songs For Pervs. Showtime is 9:30PM.

Kollman and Brown have also put the finishing touches on the ten-song JKB sophomore album, Empower Devour, due out this fall. The follow-up to 2006's Bleeding The Soul also features appearances by JKB alumni Kevin Chown (Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, TARJA TURUNEN) on bass and Charlie Waymire (SPEAK NO EVIL) on drums. Special guests include drummers Shane Gaalaas (B'z, COSMOSQUAD) and Joel Taylor (ALLAN HOLDSWORTH, OHM) on one track each.

The Empower Devour track listing reads as follows:

'Tight Like A Fist'

'Shinedown'

'Midnight Sun (Tribute To Jimi)'

'Swim In The Madness'

'Captivity'

'Time To Die'

'Circle Of Doom'

'I Wonder'

'Devastate'

'The Day Of Reckoning'

JKB's promotional video for the song 'By Myself' off Bleeding The Soul can be viewed below:

In other news, the Bombastic Meatbats feat. Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Glenn Hughes), Kevin Chown, Ed Roth (MONTROSE, Glenn Hughes), and Jeff Kollman will issue their sophomore disc, More Meat, October 19 via Warrior Records/Universal. The band will make a live appearance on the Mark & Brian Show on KLOS 95.5 in Los Angeles on October 26 and play the Baked Potato that same night. Another L.A. area Meatbats show is scheduled for October 29 at Harper's in Tarzana, CA. The group is also set to play their first ever East Coast dates in November.

Finally, Kollman will return to Japan from November 29 to December 2 for a string of concerts teaming up with rising young guitar star Yuya Komobuchi; Japanese session great Koji Hasegawa will feature on drums.

Confirmed Jeff Kollman dates are:

October

5 - Baked Potato, Universal City, CA (with Pervadelic)
26 - Mark & Brian Show, Los Angeles, CA (with Bombastic Meatbats)
26 - Baked Potato, Universal City, CA (with Bombastic Meatbats)
29 - Harper's, Tarzana, CA (with Bombastic Meatbats)

November

5 - Baked Potato, Universal City, CA (with Cosmosquad)
17 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD (with Bombastic Meatbats)
18 - Havana Club - New Hope, PA (with Bombastic Meatbats)
19 - Iridium - New York, NY (with Bombastic Meatbats)
20 - Iridium - New York, NY (with Bombastic Meatbats)
30 - Goodman - Tokyo, Japan

December

1 - Janus - Osaka, Japan
3 - Enn - Sendai, Japan
4 - Alva's - San Pedro, CA (with Cosmosquad)

For more info visit Jeffkollman.com.