Baltimore-based CHARM CITY DEVILS have released their debut album Lets Rock-N-Roll via Eleven Seven Music, the new label formed by MÖTLEY CRÜE bass player NIKKI SIXX. The CD landed at #28 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, which highlights sales by new and developing musical recording artists who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Charm City Devils will join Mötley Crüe, GODSMACK, THEORY OF A DEADMAN and DROWNING POOL on Crüe Fest 2, which kicks off on July 19th in Camden, New Jersey.

Founding member, singer songwriter John Allen of Charm City Devils comments to BraveWords.com: "I hope people pick up a copy and check out the video for 'Lets Rock-N-Roll' (see below). We are real proud of how the video turned out and how the record turned out. I hope to see ya all on the road with Crüe Fest starting in July and will run all the way up to the beginning of September. The video for 'Lets Rock-N-Roll' was done here in Baltimore. We wanted to capture the vibe of the town. We shot a lot of it basically within a mile of where I grew up. There are a lot of heavy industries in Baltimore. So a lot of it was shot around there with sections of East Baltimore called Highland Town where my parents had grown up. We actually shot some footage inside an old department store. It used to be a shopping district. It would be a perfect rock club actually. It came about so fast that we wanted to do it in a club. We shot it actually on St. Patrick’s Day last year. Everything was booked up. It was out together so quickly. We did it within a week."

John Allen has provided BraveWords.com with an exclusive track-by-track rundown for Lets Rock-N-Roll:

'Let's Rock-N-Roll (Endless Road)' - "It is the first single. When I wrote that song, it was kind of a different process than the other songs. A lot of times I write songs that some people call the head voice. I kind of hear the music sometimes lyrics in my head before I ever pick up a guitar. That song is different it started out with the riff and the verse first doing that funky kind of riff. Then I wrote the first lyrics, and then the chorus kind of came later. and I was thinking about different ideas. The next line is I am an endless road. It is talking about tenaciousness and never say die attitude and never give up on your dream kind of saying. That is how it came out. "

'House Fire' - "This is one of those kind of breakneck high-energy songs I was talking about earlier about the live show. We have been opening the show with it and it really kind of brings the house down for the get-co. It really grapes people. In capturing that live vibe on a recoding was very important to me."

'10,000 Miles' - "Is a track that the chorus is really taking about touring and being away from home and missing your loved ones or significant other. The versus lyrically talks about what you go through as struggling artist trying to make a name for yourself and all of the sort of emotions that you go thru the envy, the jealously to maybe depression to anger because you are not where you want to be. It kind of turns into, I am getting there now. Now I got what I wanted. Now I got to accept the things that go along to being in a band. There is no better job in the world than to be playing in a different town every night and playing rock music and turning people on to that. I had to do real jobs for a living and this is a total blessing to be able to do this."

'Best Of The Worst' - "Is a relationship song. It is self-deprecating. It is like look honey you could do worst!"

'True Love (Hell Yeah)' - "It started off when I wrote that tune lyrically it is a nod to the blues man Robert Johnson who supposedly sold his soul to the devil at a place called Three Forks in Mississippi. It started in another form years and years ago. We kind of finished the record and I had this idea and came this kind of drum beat and came together rather quickly."

'Money' - "Is thinking about entertainment. Whether it be music or sports, movies. It is a jaded look at turning things that you love into commerce."

'One Day' - Is actually a story about sometimes you meet someone and you just have this feeling. It might not be love at first sight but certainly it is lust."

'Almost Home' - "Is probably the most emotional song on the record for me. It is a song about my Mother, who had a bout with breast cancer. She is a survivor. I wrote this song the time when the outcome was uncertain and the call that I got from my Father and the emotional things that happened in that time period."

'Night Is Dark' - "It is a nod to blues and rock classic kind of vibe SABBATHy meets ZEPPELIN type of vibe. There are some songs that you know what they are about lyrically and where it comes from. That one is kind of a mystical kind of thing. The lyrics just kind of came out and I am not really sure what that songs says to me. It is about life and death, and the gamut of things. I guess it was in one of my darker periods. It kind of says in some ways that no one is ever going to know you beside yourself. Then in some ways, I wonder we all die alone in some way but I hope not."

'Pour Me Another Drink' - "That song starts with slide guitar that I love. It got cowbells. It really kind of started out in my last band when we did a tour for the Armed Forces. We didn't get anywhere near combat or anything. We were in Japan. The last show we did was for Marines that they were just getting ready to ship out to Iraq and Afghanistan. It really kind of struck me to see these young guys that were getting ready to go there. This is reality. The song started out as a dedication to those guys. There is a line in the bridge that says, 'I am about to knock on the devil's door. So you might as well pour me another drink.' That is what I am talking about right there. The rest of the song I was going back and forth and a song about a friend of mine who was struggling with his inner demons. It sounds like a party song but in some ways it isn't."

'Burn Baby Burn' - "That is one of the songs that was in my head first and picked up the guitar and figured out the chords and the riff around it. That all came later. It is a high-energy song. It is about a relationship that a friend of mine had that kind of I think was on some insecure footing with a girl. The girl was gorgeous and she would go away for the weekends supposedly doing a job and I think he was wondering where he stood or what that job was. It was always kind of mysterious."