Local Heavy Metal band “Bad Uncle Sam” Wins the Tri-State battle of the bands and Signs with Infinity Artists International. Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Local Heavy Metal Band “Bad Uncle Sam” Recently took first place in the NJ State fairs Second annual Tri-state battle of the bands. 178 Rock bands From NY, NJ and PA entered the battle. The bands were judged by a crowd of nearly1500 people and by music industry professionals, such as Elizabeth Poroco East Coast Marketing Director for Clear Channel radio and Rob Ryan DJ for 103.7 WNNJ New Jersey Radio. The battle was sponsored by Clear Channel Radio, WNNJ and Ritchies Music and was hosted by Rock Jock Ken O’Brien of WNNJ. The Bands were judged on crowd reaction, Stage presence, crowd interaction, musicianship and quality of song. Bad Uncle Sam took the stage and owned it from the moment they walked on to the last song of the encore set. B.U.S won second place last year in the first annual battle and gained a lot of new fans in the process. Bad Uncle Sam is currently ranked #5 in the top 50 ranked bands in the country according to www.unsignedtalents.com band poll; they are the # 1 band in the Metal Genre. The band continued to tour NY, NJ and PA vowing to win it the next year, unfortunately they lost lead guitarist Edward Lynch to the responsibilities of life and a new child. They replaced Lynch with 19 yr. Old Lead guitarist Juan Canteli and re-entered the scene. Canteli brings an aggressive grace to the band that is already notorious for Energetic stage presence “ Melodic retro-aggressive” Metal Sound. The band was contacted after the battle by Jeff Zocoli East Coast tour manager for Infinity Artists International www.infinityartists.com . The band signed exclusively with Infinity Artists International and will begin a more aggressive National tour at the end of this year. Tesla, Drowning pool, Sebastian Bach and 38 special are some of the other artists represented by IAI. For Booking info: 1-607-433-1577 Don Wyckoff 1-607-287-1978 Juan Cantelli www.badunclesam.us www.myspace.com/badunclesam www.infinityartists.com