The 69 Eyes are due to release their 9th studio album Back In Blood on September 15th, via The End Records. The first single is the tongue-in-cheek ‘Dead Girls Are Easy’ – a nasty power anthem for sleazy pin-ups complete with a sing-a-long chorus aimed at those online chicks with the looks that kill! The video will be directed by MTV superstar and close friend Bam Margera, who was also responsible for the Eyes’ rock homage to ‘80s cult movie ‘The Lost Boys’. A downloadable MP3 can be found from the link below.

Dead Girls Are Easy MP3 Download: HERE

http://www.69eyes.com

http://www.myspace.com/theofficial69eyes

This day started as a normal day, I woke up, ran down to make some breakfast for work, brush my teeth and head to work. When I entered the big hall I am working in I got a surprise from one of my co-workers, Michael Jackson is dead. And I was like “WTF!”, so I had to ask him: “What did you just say?” and the answer came at me, Michael Jackson is dead, its true, read the papers and I did, ones again: “WTF!”

MJ is one hell of an entertainer and a skillful person with loads of awesome moves (robot dancing, moonwalks, kicks, crotch grabbing e.t.c) and reading the news, that he is gone is very weird and fucked up. How can this be true?

We had the radio on for the whole day and listened to P3s tribute to one of my childhood heroes and we tried to do some MJ moves but we couldn’t. It was some happiness, mainly for the Jackson songs that was played, all the hits: Thriller, Bad, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal and some older songs like Blame it on the boogie and other Jackson 5 songs.

Everyone should listen to his music today, like a tribute, I have and I will listen to some more.
And one last thing: Hey Michael, if you are bored in Heaven look for a guy called Dave Lepard, he will cheer you up. Maybe you can write some songs together or something. We will miss you, and we will not forget you!

THE 69 EYES return with their ninth studio album, which has been hailed a latter-day ‘Appetite For Destruction’. With blood on their hands and AC/DC on their stereo, the bloodsuckers have combined their past to focus on the future. Turning their back on the comic book glam of ‘Angels’, The Eyes have opened a heavier chapter in their musical career. For the first time this decade, honorary sixth vampire Johnny Lee Michaels has been granted temporary leave from the batcave and Matt Hyde (Slayer/Monster Magnet) has been invited over the threshold to produce the record.

“He’s cleaned the table and dusted the skeletons!” singer Jyrki 69 laughs. “It’s like when Rick Rubin helped The Cult discover them on ‘Electric’ – we made a similar spiritual journey with Matt.”

Once again THE 69 EYES have their finger on the pulse of darkness with 12 goth ‘n’ roll anthems guaranteed to rock the crypt. “Unsurprisingly, the main inspiration for the album came from the vampire realm,” Jyrki explains. “We haven’t made a concept album but nearly all the songs have something to do with the undead or at least horror as a genre.” Delving into his movie collection, the singer focused on Jean Rollin’s erotic French flick ‘Lips Of Blood’, ‘The Hunger’ and the modern-day opus ‘Night Watch’. “It’s almost like vampires are taking over the world!” he muses referring to the current ‘Twilight’ mania.

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Shades of Grey:

Into Debauchery:

For those who didn’t know, Dave King was the singer in this band but nowadays he sings Irish-beer lullabies in the Irish-Celtic band Flogging Molly.

Just want to give a a-hallo about the album from Lions Share, more metal for the masses as I would say. This album is something to check out for the true metal head.

Check out their myspace: myspace.com/lionsshare

The new DARKEST HOUR record, The Eternal Return, is available in just one week! To celebrate the release of this fantastic record, DARKEST HOUR and VICTORY RECORDS proudly presents The Eternal Giveaway Contest! 50 lucky fans will walk away with prizes from the band and label including a Washburn guitar, Randall guitar amplifier, Eden bass amplifier, and tons of other great prizes. Make sure you pick up The Eternal Return next week to enter the contest! Entry forms are in every copy of the CD. Visit www.victorymetal.com/darkesthour for all of the contest details.

The Eternal Return is only a week away but you can still be one of the first to grab the new single, No God, which is now available at iTunes.
Ever wonder what its like to write and record DARKEST HOUR songs? Now you can find out! Step inside guitarist Mike Schleibaums head as he discusses the track-by-track creative process behind The Eternal Return with Zune. Check out the Breakdown in the Zune Marketplace next week to discover the in depth look into Darkest Hours new album, The Eternal Return.

Check out some concerts from the Download festival on their website. At the moment I am watching the concert from Slipknot, which played last night.

Check it out here: http://downloadfestival.co.uk/webcast/

Also to point out, Journey will play today, they will broadcast it live, check the link and then look on the schedule for the time.

Hey man, I just figured, Sweden Rock Festival 2010 is only a year away. They will start the festival 12th of June and end it on 15th of June, which is kinda awesome. It will start on a Saturday and end on a Tuesday, which means that I get Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to rest my body after 72 beers before I get to work on Monday. So isn’t that just a massive plus on their side.

Hopefully the festival will be as great as it was this year, or even better. But what can really beat dancing and cheering to Flogging Molly, with a small sun-stream and thousands of people dancing and cheering with you.
I mean seriously, we danced all the time and my smile was bigger than ever. I must say that it was well needed in the cold weather we had, I heard that we even had ICE on our tents one morning.

And experiencing rain and cold under a festival isn’t something funny, trust me, but it was totally worth it. I had my best friends, my best beer and the best music, so it was great fun.

I can’t really tell how much I appreciate this festival in words. The whole vibe and feeling you get from it is just amazing, we have:
1. great music
2. great people
3. 99% peace (we saw a fight in the camp next to us)
4. beautiful women
5. awesome staff/helpers/salesmen
6. beer (!!!!!!!)

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