Gritty Hard-Hitting Rock N’ Roll is what up and coming New York City modern rock band Diablo Royale is all about. With their sophomore release, GREEDY DOGS, the Modern Rock New York City based five-piece band further hones their sound into something original and "in-your-face".

When guitarist Eric Choy and drummer Mike Sankari met guitarist Gerard (G-Man) Steixner, the seeds of what would become up and coming New York City modern rock band Diablo Royale were planted. The three hunkered down in their basement rehearsal studio appropriately named “The Sweatshop” to write songs and find other musicians. As Choy recalls, “We wrote and auditioned twice a week every week for two hours every rehearsal...we must have seen over 100 people.” So after countless auditions over the course of nine months, the trio finally met modern rock vocalist Adrian Barrios and the hard rock band Diablo Royale was formed.

In a short time, the band cut their teeth in the Hard Rock New York City circuit, and managed to put together a ten song self-titled modern rock demo. Over the course of the next year, up and coming New York City modern rock band Diablo Royale would go on to play the Northeast as far out as Ohio while building a strong fan base back home in the hard rock scene of New York City. Before long we were seeing Diablo Royale stickers on cars and I was being stopped on subway trains by complete strangers,” says G-Man. Playing to packed houses at such venues as Sullivan Hall, Crash Mansion, Arlene's Grocery and most recently Blender Theater, their live performances are known for being powerfully energetic and brazenly unapologetic. They have been featured twice in Revolver Magazine and Pop-Times Magazine, played on Sirius Octane Satellite radio, and won the Fliptup Best Fil-Am band of the year.

In the fall of 2008 Diablo Royale went back to that same basement studio and wrote the tracks that would become their latest modern rock release GREEDY DOGS. Barrios explains,?? Lot of the inspiration for this album came from all of the nonsense going on in New York City and the rest of the country. Big companies getting their butts kissed while the little guy is hung out to dry. That’s why I made the artwork the way I did, the people that are acting like they are looking out for us, just aren’t.”

With their new release, Diablo Royale is looking to the road to continue making the transition from the local New York City modern rock scene to the national hard rock scene, spreading their word, and rocking the masses.