Sharks have been let loose in Leamington

The four-piece band, made up of frontman James Mattock, guitarist Andy Bayliss, drummer Samuel Lister and bass player Carl Murrihy, completed a summer tour which took them to the USA, Japan and Reading and Leeds festival and start their headline UK tour on Sunday.

Since thy formed in 2007 Sharks have earned praise from various names in the music industry including BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Dan P Carter and Mike Davies, Kerrang magazine, NME and XFM radio.

No Gods, released on Monday and named after the album’s closing track, reflects the band’s ethos that everyone should have the right to think for themselves.

Mattock said: “When you have no gods, you can make your own choices.

“When you’re not worried about everyone else’s opinion, you can be yourself.

“People get caught up in this Facebook world and become overly preoccupied with what everyone else thinks of them.

“We believe in what we’re doing and we believe in ourselves.

“We’re not trying to pander to anyone.

“This is exactly what we want to do - be your own god, be an individual.”

Recorded in Baltimore on the stateside label Rise Records, No Gods features the single Arcane Effegies which was added to the Radio 1 playlist four weeks before its release in February.

It follows the critically acclaimed Show of Hands EP in 2010 and The Joys of Living - which contained tracks from 2008 to 2010.

More festival dates, international tours and appearances on Radio 1 are planned for Sharks in the coming months.

But their hometown performance shows the same desire not to follow the crowd that was used in the creation of No Gods.

Mattock said: “We paid the least attention that we possibly could to current scenes and trends.

“It moves so fast anyway that ‘what’s popular’ doesn’t concern me.

“I love and respect the bands that last because of quality.

“We’re not getting caught up in the moment, we’re the same band we were when we started and we’ll always be Sharks.”