Newcomers to the Hard Rock scene in Malta, S#arp – have just released their new single – Free my Soul.

The rockers from Gozo are the latest addition to a slew of quality music being generated from the sister island.

The band said that bringing a pumping song to the stage, the music travels back to a time of big hair, hard hitting drums and squealing guitar solos. Yet it is all delivered in a crisp, modern sound with an image to match.

"In a way, this song represents the moment we broke away and started believing in our own song writing ability – it quite literally freed our soul," says front man Ricky Bugeja,

"We've been playing together for donkeys' years and we decided to step it up and finally record one of the dozens we had written."

The band has been on and off for a number of years, undergoing a couple of line-up changes along the way before arriving at its current line-up. Ricky sings, plays rhythm guitar and harmonica while writing a lot of the material. Co-writer Mark Grech plays bass, with Garry Cheshire on axe duties and Christopher Mercieca banging away on the skins.

"The song isn't for the faint of heart – and it is very far from being a pop song, so I was pretty sure we wouldn't get more than 200 views in all," continues Ricky, "but we reached 1,000 views in the first hour and by the morning after I almost fainted when I saw 4,500 organic views."

The band was so happy with the response that they decided to offer an mp3 download of the song for free to anybody who wants it. Ricky said, "all people need to do is send us a private message with their email address on our Facebook page – www.fb.com/wearesharp and we will send it to them there – no strings attached."

David Depasquale from Spine Splitter Studios oversaw the production of the song, while Fortress Communications took care of the video and promotion.

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