The Damned Things have signed to Island Records. The band is a new project featuring Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano. Though the band hasn't posted much music, they have posted a lengthy bio which aims to shed some light on the band's sound and plans:

The Damned Things' debut Island/Def Jam album, which combines their love of classic rock anthems and powerful melodies with a heavy metal intensity, turns out to be much more than the sum of the separate parts. This is an amalgam of three very different bands," explains Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman, who was first introduced to Anthrax's Scott Ian three years ago, when the two became fast friends and immediately began writing together. "It seemed unlikely, but it turned out we were on the same page musically. We were both interested in putting together a heavy/classic-rock, blues-oriented, riff-based band while trying to stay away from what makes that sound generic and overplayed."

"This is still all so new to us," says Scott. "There's no baggage yet. We're still very much in the honeymoon period. I remember what it was like to be in Anthrax back in 1984. It's just really exciting to get to do that again. I'm in a new band again. It's a blast."

The Damned Things will make their debut with a show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn in June. Afterwards the group will head over to Europe and hit the van for the Download Festival with Rage Against the Machine at Donington Park in the U.K. and more.

Incidentally, don't search for "Anthrax" in Google Images with Safesearch turned off. You will regret it.