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Black Robot is a Los Angeles, California based hard rock band formed in 2008. The band's first album is set to be released May 5, 2009 on independent label Brightman Music through Amazon.com.

The band was the brainchild of founding Buckcherry bass player Jonathan Brightman "JB" and singer Huck Johns, who met in Detroit when Buckcherry was touring with Kid Rock. According the band's Wikipedia page, JB left Buckcherry in August of 2001 after tension over the musical direction started to set in. Shortly thereafter, Huck moved to Los Angeles to pursue his own music career. Upon arriving in LA, Huck stayed on JB's couch and they started writing music together. Early sessions didn't pan out and Huck went on to release a self-titled solo record through Hide Out/Capitol Records. After Huck returned from touring, he reconnected with JB to begin new writing sessions.

In early 2008 JB met producer David Cobb (Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings, The Tender Idols) and immediately struck up a friendship. Soon after their initial meeting, JB scheduled studio sessions and began work on the Black Robot album with Huck and his former Buckcherry mates Devon Glenn and Yogi Lonich. The album was written and recorded live in studio using mostly vintage gear-paying homage to many of their musical idols such as Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. The album also features contributions from drummer Darrin Dodd, legendary session player Fred Mandel on keyboard. Drummer Chris Powell plays on one track, a cover of the JJ Cale classic "Cocaine". An excerpt from the band's bio, written by popular rock journalist Lonn Friend states "from the opening AC/DC inspired groove of “Cocaine” – a wickedly arranged cover of J.J. Cale’s narcotic classic – Black Robot serves instant notice with their self-titled debut that not only do they have it, they damn near destroyed the laboratory to get it."

In early 2009, Black Robot added guitarists Jason DeCorse and Swedish born Andy Andersson to the line-up, as well as Daxx Nielsen, son of guitar legend Rick Nielsen, on drums. They expect to debut their live show around the release of their album.