The Western Front today release the long-awaited Eureka, which is out on Music Theories Recordings / Artone Label Group, and to celebrate, they have revealed the video for The Law of the Jungle.
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The Western Front was conceived by rock luminaries Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders), Marty Walsh (Supertramp, John Fogerty), Darrell Verdusco (Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison), and stellar session players Richard “Moon” Calhoun (Chaka Khan, Andy Gibb) and Derek Bergmann (Yvonne Elliman, Jeff Barry), alongside guitarist, and longtime collaborator Dennis O’Donnell—a veteran music executive.
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Anthemic opener The Law Of The Jungle is powered by the call-and-response of Walsh and Gorham’s guitars.  Talking about the song, Marty: “Obviously, Scott is Scott. He has his thing: he’s more of a straight-up distortion rock player, whereas I was playing on a lot of LA records with clean delay tones. That difference between us really charged things up. So on The Law Of The Jungle, that’s Scott playing the overdrive part, then I come in with all that clean stuff that answers it. So we were able to kind of bounce off each other sonically like that. That song was one of the first ones we wrote. That was the basis of the band.”The Law Of The Jungle follows the previous singles  Rain and Set Me Free. To understand the roots of Eureka, rewind to Los Angeles, California, 1980. Following a run of acclaimed but fleeting bands, the two session aces—Marty Walsh and Derek Bergmann—joined up with fellow guitarist and writing partner Dennis O’Donnell, all set to leave their mark.“Dennis and I had seen Richard ‘Moon’ Calhoun singing with his band The Strand at a club in the San Fernando Valley,” recalls Walsh. “Moon was incredibly impressive, so Dennis, Derek and I had a conversation about bringing him in.” Meanwhile, Walsh tapped Thin Lizzy’s Scott Gorham: an old friend with whom he was then working at Supertramp drummer Bob Siebenberg’s Unstable Studio.
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The chemistry was an instant fit.  The band would spend the next two years writing and recording the Eureka material. Tracked between ’83 and ’84, the track listing nods to its era but still sounds vital today.
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In a fair world, The Western Front’s debut would have arrived in the mid-’80s, right after Atlantic Records promised a major-label deal—only to have label upheaval sweep Eureka off the schedule. Fast-forward to 2023, when a Stockholm record man heard a couple of Western Front tracks online and reached out to ask why their near-mythical debut never saw the light of day. At the recommendation of friend and TOTO guitar legend Steve Lukather, Walsh was able to strike a deal with the Mascot Label Group.
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The Western Front’s Eureka is a moment of long-overdue triumph, introducing a ‘new’ band to the world..