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| The 69 Eyes: Back in Blood |
Gothic Rock, Hard Rock
The End Records
September 15th, 2009
- Back In Blood - 4:30
- We Own The Night - 4:03
- Dead N' Gone - 3:40
- The Good, The Bad & The Undead - 3:28
- Kiss Me Undead - 3:58
- Lips Of Blood - 4:21
- Dead Girls Are Easy - 3:55
- Night Watch - 4:33
- Some Kind Of Magick - 3:43
- Hunger - 4:34
- Suspiria Snow White - 3:34
- Eternal - 4:19
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| Review Information |
Release length:
Review posted on September 19th, 2009
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| Overall Score: 3.5/10 |
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| Discography |
Discography covers all information available up to day of review and is updated if future albums are reviewed. |
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Bump 'n' Grind (1992) Savage Garden (1995) Motor City Resurrection (1995) Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (1997)
Wasting the Dawn (1999) Blessed Be (2000) Paris Kills (2002) Devils (2004) Angels (2007) Back in Blood (2009)
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| EP(s): |
Sugarman (1990) barbarella (1991) Juice Lucy (1991) High Times - Low Life (1993) Never Too Loud!!! (1994)
Suck My Mike! (1994) Fellow Reptiles: Your Truly (1996)
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| Split(s): |
The 69 Eyes & Backyard Babies: Supershow Split (1997)
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Music for Tattooed Ladies & Motorcycle Mamas Vol. 1 (1993) Velvet Touch (1995) Wasting the Dawn (1999)
Gothic Girl (2000) The Chair (2001) Stolen Season (2001) Sance d'Amour (2001) Betty Blue (2002) Crashing High (2003)
Lost Boyws (2004) Devils (2004) Feel Berlin (2005) Sister of Charity (2005) Perfect Skin (2007) Never Say Die (2007)
Rocker (2007) Ghost (2007) Dead Girls are Easy (2009)
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Dictators Forever, Forever Dictators (1996) I Wanna be a Stooges (1996) Hell on Earth (1996)
Stranded in the Doll's House (1997) Orkus Presents the Best of 1999 (1999) Sonic Seducer - Like a Taste of Sin! (1999)
Orkus Present the Best of 2000 (2000) Goth 'n' Roll (2008)
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| Live CD(s): |
Hollywood Kills - Live at the Whisky A Go go (2007)
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Helsinki Vampires (2003)
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Well, all good things must usually come to an end. While Devils was an impressive album, and their follow-up release, Angels, was a little worse for wear, we are now given Back In Blood which finds the band falling prey to so many hard rock cliche's with the change of their music and vocal style, that what positive aspects there are to this CD are somewhat dwarfed by the aspects that aren't. What could have honestly possessed The 69 Eyes to change their music so dramatically in such a short time span is unfathomable, but never the less, they did, and now we must all suffer.
Ditching much of their rather dark, romantic lyrical content and similarly dark ambient sound from this release, the band gives us a rather upbeat glam rock album about romance, necrophilia, and zombies. Yes, you heard it right, no very deep vampiric-esque lyrics here, instead we are graced with further generic rock-themed lyrics then those that appeared on Devils. It's not that there aren't any good tracks on Back In Blood. If you're a huge fan of the old school rock scene, then you will probably enjoy the title track, "Back In Blood", as well as "The Good, The Bad & The Undead" as well as "Dead Girls Are Easy".
To put it simply, there's no real essence to this album at all. The vocals are nice an all, and do stand out as one of the better elements of the album, especially with "Kiss Me Undead" and "Dead Girls Are Easy" having some traits to recent albums that came before this, and "Hunger" sounding like a slightly lighter song rejected for Devils, but please take heavy consideration to the word "rejected" in that statement. But aside that, the music is about as cliche as it can get. You have the upbeat, simple power chords being played, lyrics about sex and women, but just distorted to often reflect the undead and even necrophilia can be gathered, as well as about rock. Oh yes, there are hard rock worship tracks on here as well, such as on "The Good, The Bad & The Undead". But, while this album brings practically nothing new to the table, everything on it is solid, well performed, and nicely structured. There isn't really much repetition to this release, aside the constant tamborine that doesn't sound human at all, and some rather generic riffs. Other then that, each song has it's own rather unique sound to it, which is nice nowadays. The only track that doesn't really work out is the song "Night Watch" which just sounds like H.I.M. from start to finish, moreso then some of the other tracks that adorn this release that simply have hints of that band.
So, while Back In Blood isn't a totally atrocious album, it really doesn't bring anything new to the table. If you're a hard rock fan, you're going to absolutely love this album, especially the track "Some Kind Of Magick", which is just a great song all around from start to end. It's a real shame to see this band give up the darkened sound they had on Devils for this, but in a few ways it works. The polished production quality of the album does lead for a nice sounding album, and the music is often catchy as all hell and enjoyable if you approach this album with some lowered expectations. Aside that, all the cliche sounds of hard rock and glam metal are here in one easy to use package.
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