Featuring a snare drum as tight as David Lee Roth’s Spandex pants, Draven is a ‘brand new’ British rock band that melds together the talents of twins Frank and Jim Paoli on guitar and vocals, supported by Alex de la Fuente on bass, with the aforementioned drumsmithing carried out by Danny Wood, whose perspiration you can all but feel dripping onto your CD player’s in-tray or leaking into your ears from your iPod.

The twins started song-writing at the age of twelve years and took as their inspiration the classic rock works of Muse, Cream, Aerosmith, Nirvana and even Led Zeppelin, all of which combine to provide a typical, familiar and no less pleasantly musical backdrop to their hard-edged sound. Taking their name from Brandon Lee’s portrayal of ‘Eric Draven’ from the movie ‘The Crow’, they have been playing together since 2002 and it would be fair to suggest that they have earned their stripes, as this launch album highlights their well-formed vocal talents, harmonious progressions and a clear love for well-orchestrated music.

Interestingly enough, although the band hails from a staunchly musical family from leafy Surrey suburbia, as tends to happen to rockers wanting to make their break, the opportunity arose in Los Angeles. Shipped off last summer to California, to the studios of Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley, whose button-pushing, dial-twirling talents have been behind such notable acts as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Crowes and Bon Jovi, as well as several of the bands that inspired Draven in the first place, ‘Eden’ owes its concept to ‘Paradise Lost’, not the heavy metal band but the John Milton blank verse poem of the same name.

Do not look for innovation here. You will not receive it. This is just good old, classic rock, at its surprising best.