Metal Anarchy

Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to bands that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with The Trousers.

METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:

THE TROUSERS: The Trousers are garage rock/hard rock band from Budapest since 2005. The members are Zoltán Kőváry (vocals, guitar), Péter Locke (guitar), András Lázár (bass), Samu Antal Gulyás (drums). We have released seven albums so far, on “Freakbeat” (2013) we had Nicke Andersson from The Hellacopters as a guest-guitarist on one song. The albums have had very good reviews all over the world, usually 7-9/10 rating. The band has played in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Slovenia, Czehia, Slovakia in the recent years, and supported bands like Black Stone Cherry, MC5, Tygers of Pan Tang, Dirty Honey, Atomic Bitchwax, etc…

METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?

THE TROUSERS: From the 60’s: The Rolling Stones, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, Stax/Motown soul
From the 70’s: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Sex Pistols
From the 80’s: Judas Priest, The Cult, Metallica, Mötley Crüe
From the 90’s: Alice in Chains, The Black Crowes, Oasis
Form the 00’s: The Hellacopters, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Wolfmother

METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?

THE TROUSERS: We have released “Necessary Evil” in 2025 November. I think it’s very diverse and unified at the same time, integrating all our influences as musicians and everyday people. The Trousers is a hard, riff-driven band but the songs are very melodic and sound like a hit at the same time. We always try to write albums with ten singles 😊 I think in the 70’s and 80’s rock bands wrote big hits while they didn’t give up their identity as a rock n roll band and they remained raw and heavy. Motörhead, AC/DC or Judas Priest used to play in Top of the Pops in Britain for example, or Guns n Roses videos were in heavy rotation on MTV. Things will never be the same again, but we try to follow this tradition artistically.

METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?

THE TROUSERS: Real rock attitude… We play rock n roll with the intensity of a classic thrash metal band. Usually 50-60 minutes, with the best songs from our albums and some covers. Last year we released an EP of covers under the title “Garage Nights Revisited”. Sometimes we play a few songs from this too.

METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?

THE TROUSERS: It also depends on the international context, because we don’t play too much in Hungary expect from Budapest. It’s getting harder to get gigs for a band like us. We will keep on making albums for sure, so in five years there will be at least two more albums in our catalogue, but the tours and the concerts depend on a lot of factors. We do what we can!