The Australian Rock band ASTRAL ALIENS, the 2009 Champions of The BATTLE for LOS ANGELES (Winter Series), have just won KROQ’s Battle for LA (Summer Series).

The Aussies battled it out against 5 of LA’s other elite bands in the KROQ Grand Finale at The Knitting Factory, Hollywood, on Thursday July 30th.

ASTRAL ALIENS had a flying start on their first trip to Los Angeles just over a year ago, with a huge debut at the Key Club with LA’s top show band, Powder. On their second tour of LA clubs, the band appeared at many of Hollywood’s leading Rock venues, including multiple appearances at The Viper Room (7 times), House of Blues, Key Club, Knitting Factory, Whisky A Go-Go, The Mint, The Derby and other prominent venues. Last month ASTRAL ALIENS embarked on their third US club tour, which is set to include numerous appearances in Los Angeles and other Southern California cities, as well as throughout California and the Southwestern states of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

The ASTRAL ALIENS are getting the attention of a lot of new fans in America, with over 700,000 hits and 620,000+ plays on their Myspace page since their arrival here, and they are now getting ready to showcase for US record companies.

The band relishes going up against the competition in “The Battle 4 LA”, as they are no strangers to band contests, having won several of them in their home country. Signed to one of Australia’s leading independent record labels, Wizard Records, the Aussies first rose to prominence Down Under by winning the “Bandfest” rock contest, soon after which they won the “Best Radio-Friendly Band” title at the finals of “ROCKSTAR…The Real Deal!”, the rock band search sponsored by Australia’s leading rock radio network, Triple M, and Coca-Cola. They were also the Runners-Up in the Australian Grand Final of the Jim Beam National Band Competition, as well as the Winner of the Queensland State Final of the World Battle Of The Bands contest.

ASTRAL ALIENS consists of the brothers Jakob Fehres (vocals/bass) & Mablo Fehres (vocals/guitar), and American singer/lead guitarist Eric Slater, who recently moved to Queensland, Australia. The Fehres brothers and Slater are seasoned Karate practitioners, and martial arts katas and the Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo form an integral part of the ASTRAL ALIENS’ unique stage performances. ASTRAL ALIENS’ newest member, Australian drummer Dan O’Connell (“Dan O”) arrived from Brisbane, Australia 3 weeks ago, just in time to be thrust into KROQ’s Summer Series Battle for LA.

ASTRAL ALIENS is the latest in a long line of major Australian artists who were discovered, produced and launched in Australia and Internationally by Wizard Records. Those artists, including Marcia Hines, Air Supply, Daddy Cool, Rick Springfield. Tommy Emmanuel, have sold over 50 million records around the world. Wizard recently took another Australian band, Porcelain, to the U.S., signing them to a multi-album world-wide deal with Universal Records, and Wizard is hot on the trail of doing the same with the ASTRAL ALIENS.

Don’t miss the band that Los Angeles clubs are hailing as “Australia’s Hottest New Band” …ASTRAL ALIENS!