caption current_members years_active label article_title background genre image origin name
the barcelona , spain . band playing as support band of airbourne in armand guillem martinez valeta , lg valeta , andy cobo , 2006 -- century media / listenable records 77 -lrb- band -rrb-
 group_or_band hard rock , rock 'n' roll airbourne 1.jpg barcelona spain '77
77 -lrb- band -rrb-

77 are a spanish hard rock band formed in 2006 by the brothers armand valeta -lrb- april 21 , 1981 -rrb- and lg valeta -lrb- november 25 , 1985 -rrb- .
the first line up was complete by dolphin riot -lrb- december 10 , 1984 -rrb- on drums and raw -lrb- june 12 , 1987 -rrb- on bass .
late 2007 recorded an ep witch it was well-accepted on the papers and had a good response .
after some gigs around spain they went to the studio `` the room '' in december 2008 to record their first and self-produced album titled `` 21st century rock '' , published only in spain on march 6 , 2009 via weight recordings .
the album was qualified as one of the best debut albums of the year in many magazines and got very good reviews in general .
the band spent the rest of the year playing in the whole country .
on february 2010 the band signed a contract with the label listenable records and their debut album was released in europe on may 10 , 2010 and japan in june .
with that they started to do some tours around europe .
in september in the middle of a swedish tour they met nicke andersson -lrb- entombed , hellacopters , imperial state electric -rrb- in a show in stockholm .
he was very impressed with the energy and power of the band and told to them he want to produce their next album .
the total shows with `` 21st century rock '' were 134 during 30 months .
the 2nd album `` high decibels '' was recorded during april 2011 at gutterview recorders in stockholm by nicke andersson as producer and mixer .
the album was released in november 7 , 2011 and had better reputation and acceptation on the press .
the tour called `` sweat , blood and decibels '' consisted of 136 gigs during almost 2 years in the whole europe playing in big festivals like rock hard , paaspop , speedfest , headbangers open air .
from march 17 to 27 , 2013 they returned to gutterview recorders again to record the 3rd studio album `` maximum rock 'n' roll '' .
this time the record was co-produced by nicke andersson and fred estby -lrb- dismember -rrb- who did the mixing too .
the date of release was november 15 , 2013 and the tour `` maximum rock 'n' roll on the road '' consisted of 73 shows from november 2013 and finishing in december 2014 .
in september 2014 dolphin and raw left the band for differences and other personal reasons , being replaced by andy cobo and guillen martínez respectively .
after long months and some negotiations meanwhile they 're working on a new album , they signed a deal with century media in march 2015 .
last may they were recording with the producer jaime gómez the 4th studio album at music lan studios -lrb- figueres , spain -rrb- and orgone studios -lrb- london -rrb- wich will be released worldwide next october 2015 .
