THE 69 EYES - Recap Of Back In Blood Listening Party In new York Available
Ken Pierce at
www.PiercingMetal.com has issued a recap of
THE 69 EYES' listening party for their new album, Back In Blood, which took place in New York City on June 12th at
The Arrow in
the East Village. An excerpt is available below:
Track listing:'Back In Blood','We Own The Night', 'Dead N’ Gone','The Good, The Bad & The Undead','Kiss Me Undead','Lips Of Blood','Dead Girls Are Easy','Night Watch','Some Kind Of Magick', 'Hunger','Suspiria Snow White', 'Eternal'.
"As you can see by
the track names they have not moved far from their Gothic premise all that much but when
the album began I had to say that it was like a slap in
the jaw based on
the level of heaviness that they have chosen to deliver this time around.
The album is probably
the heaviest that I have heard from them, and I own
the entire catalog of their music and can safely gauge this for you.
The best and quickest way for me to describe it to you is to say 'think of a heavier and darker Devils and to wind back
the hands of time a few albums, a solidly evil successor to Blessed Be.'
The title track had some elements of
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s vintage time and I believe it was 'We Own
The Night' that had a riff that I felt offered homage up to
THE CULT. The 69 Eyes have never been slow to line out their influences when they do interviews and I always love when some of them manifest in a fashion in their material. I loved 'Dead Girls Are Easy' and think this will become one of
the albums most popular numbers and also
the slower track, but that one’s name escaped me because I was mainly listening and mingling more than taking notes against a track run down. As he walked around
the room Jyrki made a point to let me know that singer London LeGrande was doing some backing vocals on
the particular track playing. Some of you might remember London from
the short-lived
BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION project with Tracii Guns and Nikki Sixx."
Go to
this location for
the complete blog, which includes a photographic play-by-play of
the day's activities.