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FEW WORDS AT THE BEGINNING.... This is the official European action started by Bosnian and Croatian The 69 Eyes homepages, that has for its goal a real goth boom in promoting "Angels"
album & all other The 69 Eyes releases, gigs, djshows and
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01.07.2009
The 69 Eyes are due to release their
9th studio album, "Back In Blood", on
August 28th via Nuclear Blast (excluding Finland) and a September
15th release in North American via The End Records.
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Hot
off their appearance at Download Festival, The 69 Eyes have been
confirmed as special guests to Buckcherry at their exclusive
Kerrang! Awards Show performance on 30th July at the HMV Forum in
Kentish Town, London.
----------------- World premiere of the new The 69 Eyes single "Dead Girls Are Easy", taken from the upcoming album "Back In Blood" - listen on air - Radio Bam!
Second one is scheduled for the
infamous
Wild At Heart
in Berlin!
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Sharpen your fangs, The Helsinki Vampires are back. And this time, they’re “Back In Blood”.
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.
"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."
The first single will be 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 has been directed by MTV superstar and close friend Bam Margera and the artwork has been designed by Estevan Oriol, whose work has
“Back In Blood” tracklisting:
1. Back In Blood
If you want blood, you've got it!
"Back In Blood" will be out on August 28th, 2009 in Europe (without Finland) via Nuclear Blast. The album will come out in 2 versions: simple version and box set version.
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THE 69 EYES team up with Nuclear
Blast for their new album!
The 69 Eyes will be visiting Australia this summer! Check our
partners in crime by clicking the banner below!
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After
winning two awards as the best TV series in its category at two
different Finnish annual awards, "Operation Earth",
environmental reality TV show in which Jyrki69 and Jussi69 had the
"Pirates of the Baltic Sea" campaign, is now
nominated for the international Rose d'Or award!
---------------- We've got fresh Hellhounds candy for you to feast upon! Below you can read our interview with Jyrki69, and in photo galleries you can check out live photos from Budapest and Vienna shows! More candy coming up!
INTERVIEW WITH JYRKI69, BUDAPEST, 17.02.2009
ANGELS RISING: So before we start, this interview is for Angels Rising, we’ve been talking about this before, do you remember what it is? JYRKI69 : Yeah! Mmmmmm, it’s…. erm…. Tell me. *laughs* AR: Angels Rising is a website that unites fan sites and other people who support The 69 Eyes in many different ways…. J69: Great! Wow! Beautiful idea! AR: And now we’re gonna do the interview for that website. J69: Great! Fantastic!
AR: You’re currently on a break from the studio and the recording of the new album. Did you miss touring during the past months? J69: Yeah, now after being here of course. There is some strange fantasy kind of feeling in touring. You are in these ancient legendary cities, different city every night and…. We’ve been doing this now for a week and the only thing I actually dislike is that the time is going so fast. I hardly… for instance, we just played in Prague but I didn’t see Prague and I can’t see anything, I just saw the venue and few people in the audience so sometimes it goes too fast but I really enjoy this. I don’t know, maybe in previous life I was some strange traveler as well because this is really a part of my personality, to travel like this. I really like this.
AR: And does touring actually improve the recording process once you’re back in the studio?
J69:
Yeah, well you know we started in January with Matt Hyde to do the
pre-production for the album and we went through all the songs, we
chose the songs that are gonna be on the album and then right after
this, a week after we are home we fly to Los Angeles in the U.S.
where we are gonna do the actual recording. We will be there like
two or three months to get the whole thing done. It’s really
exciting and it’s fantastic to have Matt Hyde working with us. He’s
a fantastic guy, he’s great and the biggest message from Matt Hyde
for us in the first place was that he wants to make a record which
sounds like The 69 Eyes and how do The 69 Eyes sound, that’s the
thing he hears… his favorite record is “Blessed Be” and after that
we of course have a lot of songs which are like that kind of
rock’n’roll, that kind of songs, but he wants to have the ultimate
goth’n’roll album and The 69 Eyes album made, which is like mixture
of gothic rock and rock’n’roll and classic rock, in our style that
sounds perfect. Songs are ready already, they are really vampiric,
majority of they are about vampires still… I’m really enthusiastic
to start to do it, it’s great to do with Matt and I’m really
thankful that he’s with us and we totally trust him. And the
greatest thing is, he likes the comics and movies like I do and he
is a classic rock producer, classic rock means like AC/DC, Led
Zeppelin and also he really understands what gothic means. He is big
vampire movie fan too so it’s really great to have such a person. AR: It seems everybody is addicted to the actual Twilight saga… J69: *laughs* Well, he’s not addicted but actually what he said about it is that they are promoting The 69 Eyes already in the States because of that movie so he said it is fucking right time for us so that was cool.
AR: After all these years, and you celebrate 20 years this year, what inspires you to keep playing and creating music? J69: I think we are… and I’m really thankful that The 69 Eyes is still exciting band for people. And there are a lot of people who really don’t know and have no idea that we play that long. Because I think we are still sort of like a new band for many people. And that’s cool that we are still exciting and also we are still excited, that’s another factor. And these two which are strongly present that are really keeping the spirit alive and make this extremely fun and like I said exciting.
AR: What do you listen to and/or read on this tour?
J69:
Oh God. I’ve been watching…. I took some old horror movies that I
haven’t seen for a while. I have like the original Halloween movies,
I have a box-set of Halloween, I’ve been watching them. Then I have
Alien box-set with me, then I watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
again like checking out the old classics I mean. Well I have to say
that Halloween 3 was crap. But I mean I have all this and every
night after show I go to the tour bus and watch some horror movies
on this tour. Oh yeah, I started to watch, erm… erm….. hold on….
What is this new movie with Johnny Depp? AR: The new one?
J69:
Sweeney Todd. AR: Oh, yeah.
J69:
I actually started to watch this one but I didn’t finish it yet. AR: It’s a cool one.
J69:
Yeah it is. So…. I’m pretty into horror, I’m watching horror all the
time on this tour, that’s my theme on this tour. What I’ve been
reading… I bought one of these books by Obama. No I mean Osama,
sorry. (smiles). I mean the President of the States so….. like he’s
been writing a few books, he’s a writer. But also what I’ve been
listening to… actually the last record I was listening to was some
of Presley’s albums, One Night. *laughing* Seriously. AR: *laughs* I believe you.
AR: Recently you introduced your new project, Pirates of the Baltic Sea. What can you tell about the experience of being a part of the reality show „Operation Earth“? What was the goal of PBS in the beginning, what is implemented and what are PBS' plans for future?
J69:
The idea of being in this TV show was first of all that we
experience something new at the same time. And the idea is like
people will experience it also through us. Because it happens at the
same time as it’s filmed. So we are on the sea or we are meeting
people or we are getting into the thing to save the sea or start the
campaign. So the idea of those shows is not like we are trying to
teach people about it, it’s more like we learn and we hope that
people who watched the shows also learn through us. That’s the
thing. Because somebody asked me like do I think that I can make
people understand that taking care of the environment is important
through these shows, but I think it is more like I learn through
these shows and I hope that people who watch this show would learn
with me. That’s the idea. But it is of course a very important
topic, more all the time so…. From my point it is of course
important what we are doing but also it was a selfish thing to have
experience from making a TV show. I wanted to see how it is, that’s
one of the reasons why I did that show. And also we had some time
because we were in Helsinki so why not, it’s cool to do new things.
And I’m just waiting, next time maybe I’ll do a movie or something.
AR: Yeah, we’ve seen you were fishing….
J69:
Oh yeah, that’s also one of the things. It’s just… somebody asked me
to do it and I’ve never been fishing and it was in front of Finland
and it sounded strange so I just went there and once again I was a
total layman because I was never fishing before. I haven’t even
watched the show because it was a cool thing to do and what the hell
- I was there, why should I watch then? I mean, they did it and why
not?! It was a cool experience, I’m surprised some people watched
that. AR: Everyone watched that. J69: Yeah well… but I didn’t. I don’t know. I didn’t think about why I’ve been doing that but it was cool to go for fishing. And really strange.
AR: You’ve already sort of marked this anniversary with the “Goth’n’Roll” release, which had release parties in Croatia and Bosnia, and now we’re expecting the new album.
J69:
It was actually just a documentary about those five years. I can’t
remember everything so it is cool to have a kind of diary or
something like that, a Goth’n’Roll diary. AR: Will it also reflect your two decades on stage? J69: Yes of course. Like I said, when we did the box-set we had to go through the whole material and honestly I discovered… because I needed to listen to these two records, since I wanted the lyrics to be right in the booklet, because if I go to the internet and check out any of our lyrics from the internet they are always really wrong for some strange reason, I don’t know how, why. So I just wanted to get them right. They are on the booklet. So I had to listen to the records and I was surprised how could they vary, really. Because I don’t remember. They were, they are so magic if you listen to them. I realized they are like fucking cool records. Ok, we did the box-set and it was the best way to do it this way. But also as we started to work with Matt Hyde, producer of the next album, I sent him the box-set and he checked it out and was like what the hell these are coolest stuff he heard for years and now he is telling us that “Blessed Be” is his favorite record and he wants us to do that kind of vibe to be on the new record as well. So it works and in that way it was also important to do that.
AR: When comparing The 69 Eyes now and back in 2000 when you spread over Europe for the first time, how important and how hard it is (now when the fan-base is growing) to keep in touch with the people who supported you back then?
J69:
Is it growing? Because I think it’s the same like three years back
or so on. I don’t know, it’s hard to tell. But… I mean there are new
people on each show and some older familiar people. I don’t know. I
have no idea what is going on in that way with our band. I just hope
that we still remain exciting and also, you know, the reason why we
are doing the next record for instance with a great American
producer and in L.A. is not that our records are selling a lot, it’s
because first of all the records industry still think it’s.. they
can, you know, make money from us, they want to invest in us. And
they have a reason because I think there are a lot of people who
already love our band but they never have heard of us. I think there
are a lot of people who have empty space in their hearts, who should
hear us, that’s why we wanna make a better and better record and
more like a record that people want to invest at. I think we are
still more like a small cult band known to some secret people. AR: The question was actually how important it is to keep in touch with the people who supported you back then?
J69:
Well you know it like works in circles. Some people do the website
like two years, somebody two and a half.., it’s pretty normal that
somebody, you know, some people are enthusiastic to do something for
a few years and then they got other things, their life moves
forward, but it’s great to do something for people that are excited
in their lives and creative and maybe that connect them to other
people. You know, we are a hobby for some people. It’s cool, it’s
interesting. And especially this tour is a small cult tour and it’s
cool to meet as much people as possible and I hang out in the
audience seeing Tiamat every night and meeting people. AR: That’s cool! J69: It’s a nice and warm little tour. And I hope always will be great. Sometimes, for instance, when we were touring with Within Temptation we always wanted to go in the audience.
AR: AngelsRising.info has 2 years behind its belt now. What do you think about our network of European The 69 Eyes fan sites? J69: It’s great and I’m happy that we… it’s an honor for us and me to inspire people to do something, to socialize through the internet and that way to start to have us as a hobby or to start to band or draw or whatever. We are like popular culture, we create a kind of physical power that transform us to someone else and they have our same little fire to do something inspiring. That’s the same thing that inspired us, like I don’t know, Mötörhead or Elvis or some other band.
AR: What do you want to say to all your fans united under the Angels Rising? J69: I hope to meet you, guys. Don’t be afraid. Just don’t forget to wear the sunglasses.
AR: Well, you just need to turn around, some of them are here now. J69: Cool, great!
AR: Shall we join them now? J69: Yes. Let’s go.
Angels Rising have a special treat for
you! Think of some cool question that you would like to ask The 69
Eyes, and we'll include the best ones in our special interview that
will take place in Budapest on 17th February! Also, we give you a chance to meet The 69 Eyes @
unique Angels Rising meet & greet in Budapest!
So the line up for the Hellhounds fest will be:
TIAMAT +
THE 69 EYES + AVA INFERI
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The 69 Eyes has started recording their new, ninth
studio album with none other than Matt Hyde - Grammy awarded
producer who's behind works from Slayer, Monster Magnet
and Fu Manchu. The still unnamed album will be recorded in
both Helsinki and Los Angeles, and is due September 2009, while the
video and single might come earlier this summer.
According to bravewords.com,
the idea of collaborating with Matt on the next record came rather
accidentally to the Eyes. "We used Slayer's God Hates Us All for
long to wake us up before the shows on tour back then, I guess
that's where the name Matt Hyde came into our mind. It'll be very
interesting to work with him. We have so good material at the
moment!", says Jussi69.
What better way to celebrate the beginning of our third year online than by bringing you fresh news from Finland! Jyrki69 will take part in a new reality show called "Gone Fishing"!
Check out the
trailer at
www.gonefishingshow.com
where the show
will be launched on January 15th!
Prepare again for fun 69 TV times as you watch Jyrki in
nontraditional surroundings!
Also, more info
about the forthcoming The 69 Eyes European tour with Tiamat, Novembre,
Ava Inferi and Scream Silence will follow soon! Thank you all for the tremendous support to our official European Action - put your sunglasses on and stay tuned with Angels Rising for another exciting year! ---------------- After more than successful exclusive Croatian promotion, the already cult The 69 Eyes' release "Goth'N'Roll" is recommended as the release of December 2008 / January 2009 by the Croatian webzine for alternative music, Venia-Mag! Also, vote for your favorite acts of 2008 and win some special Venia prizes! Find more at: www.venia-mag.net! ---------------- Jyrki69 and Jussi69 teamed up on Finnish TV Channel 4 - Nelonen for an environmental reality TV show "Operaatio Maa" (Operation Earth), for six weekly episodes from November to December 2008. Now you can watch it worldwide through Nelonen streaming by clicking here! Also, visit Pirates of the Baltic Sea! And don't forget – fight for what you love! ----------------
It's
going to be a night of Halloween quality... MEET THE PIRATES! All of you who are in Helsinki on Thursday, 4th December 2008, have the chance to Meet the Pirates - Jyrki69, Jussi69 and Michael Monroe in Nokia Flagship Store Helsinki (Aleksanterinkatu 46) - 18:00 - 20:00! :) OPERAATION MAA (OPERATION EARTH)
---------------- "Goth'N'Roll release date is 19th November 2008!
Also, don't forget! Jyrki69 and Jussi 69 started a campaign to save the Baltic Sea - Pirates Of The Baltic Sea. Fight for what you love!
On Wednesday, November 12, on Finnish TV Channel 4 - Nelonen, Jyrki69 and Jussi69 will team up for an environmental reality TV show "Operation Earth" for six weekly episodes from November to December 2008. ---------------- Thanks to everyone who were a part of "Goth'N'Roll" promotion in Croatia on Halloween, October 31st! Check out the review on www.the69-eyes.com!
Special news regarding the promotion of this
release in BiH
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Dear friends and fellow vampires! We wish you a spooky and bewitching Halloween! Also, don't forget about the best Croatian Halloween feast with The 69 Eyes' "Helsinki Vampires" DVD slide and promotion of
the upcoming box-set "Goth'N'Roll" Fangs you there! - Angels Rising Team - ---------------- EXCLUSIVE THE 69 EYES "GOTH'N'ROLL" BOX-SET PROMOTION @ TWILIGHT HALLOWEEN! Boogaloo, Zagreb, Croatia 31st October 2008
Twilight, the famous Croatian alter-party, lead by Tomi Phantasma, presents the biggest Croatian Halloween party - Twilight Halloween including the exclusive promotion of The 69 Eyes upcoming release, the already legendary box-set "Goth'N'Roll"! ---------------- Ipanapa 2: "Lennä lennä lepakko" by Jyrki69
"Ipana 2" will be published via EMI Finland and will contain following songs: 1. Vattat täynnä - Lauri Tähkä Listen to "Lennä lennä lepakko": www.emi.fi/jukebox/play/1036/lenna_lenna_lepakko More info about this project (in Finnish only) find at: www.ipanapa.fi. ---------------- "Goth'n'Roll" pre-order info!
"Goth'N'Roll", The 69 Eyes' very special 3 CD + DVD that will be released on November 5th, 2008 you can pre-order through the Swamp Music' website. Due to the fact Swamp Music' website is only in Finnish, if you need any help regarding your order, feel free to contact us: angels_rising@yahoo.com. More info about pre-order possibilities and some more spices will be posted upon arrival. ---------------- The 69 Eyes confirmed their appearance at Helldone Festival that will take place in Finland, 29.-31.12.2008. This year at Helldone will also appear HIM, Negative, Stam1na, 45 Degree Woman, Sara, etc. The 69 Eyes will play at Helldone on 30th December 2008 in the club Tavastia in Helsinki. Ticket presale strating October 15th 2008 at 09:00 EET. More info about the festival you can find at www.myspace.com/helldone. ---------------- ---------------- HELLHOUNDS FEST feat. TIAMAT + THE 69 EYES + NOVEMBRE + AVA INFERI + SCREAM SILENCE SOME DATE / VENUE CHANGES - check it out in our tour section! ---------------- ---------------- WHAT ARE THE PIRATES OF THE BALTIC SEA ALL ABOUT? From the state of the Baltic Sea it is visible that it has been quite sufficiently polluted. By establishing Pirates Of The Baltic Sea, Jussi69 and Jyrki69 provide an opportunity to fight for the Baltic Sea regardless of age, gender or wealth. GIVE MONEY OR SPREAD THE WORD Everyone who enrolls in the pirates binds itself to fight for the Baltic Sea by freely copying an on purpose unregistered pirate mark or by collecting money and by spreading the message. You can see how it goes by visiting piratesofthebalticsea.fi. COLLECTED MONEY The collected amount will go to the wetland project of WWF. When you give, you help the pine swamps to serve as nature's own filters which reduces eutrophication (process where enhanced plant growth under the influence of excess nutrients results in reduced oxygen in water and can cause other organisms to die). Read more on the wetland project of WWF on country.fi. MICHAEL MONROE JOINED THE PIRATES MIKE MONROE was among the first ones connected to the pirates, and he composed and wrote the lyrics for Pirates Of The Baltic Sea single and music video that can be seen on the address: piratesofthebalticsea.fi. TV SERIES The idea of an establishment of pirates was created to bring Operation in connection with the work of the country TV series company, Nordisk Film. The Operation Earth is beginning from 11.11.2008 on Nelonen, which features a program in which three celebrity pairs struggle against the climate change. Read more about the series on country.fi. Artists who, besides Jussi69 and Jyrki69, are a part of Pirates Of The Baltic Sea are: Adam Bomb, Backyard Babies' Dregen, Kory Clarke and Havana Black's Hannu Leiden and Petri Majuri. ---------------- PIRATES OF THE BALTIC SEA Pirates Of The Baltic Sea promo photos:
More info about Pirates Of The Baltic Sea is coming soon! ;) ---------------- THE 69 EYES, HANOI ROCKS, WARRIOR SOUL, BACKYARD BABIES Members Team Up For 'Pirates' Single!
The Baltic Sea is the most polluted sea in the world. Worldwide climate change affects us all. "Operaatio Maa" (Operation Earth), a new series starting in November on Finnish TV channel 4, features three separate teams with different environmental causes. Rock stars Jyrki 69 and Jussi 69 from THE 69 EYES form one of the teams, that will man the barricades for saving the Baltic Sea: they have formed an anarchistic environmental movement called Pirates Of The Baltic Sea and invite everyone aboard the ship that sails under the green Jolly Roger. ----------------
As you already know, new The 69 Eyes release is coming right for this Halloween! It will be 4-disc box set "Goth'N'Roll". You can
also preview the cover design on The 69 Eyes mobile blog! It'll be a Bible like box set wrapped up in black PVC python skin with silver chrome print on the cover. ---------------- Angels Rising is now
confirmed as the official European action! ---------------- Like Jyrki revealed to both Croatian and Bosnian The 69 Eyes websites in July, the “Goth’n’Roll” box set arrives for Halloween 2008! It will be released in Finland for this holiday and will contain three CDs and a DVD.
As it says on the official website:
‘"Goth'N'Roll" documents The 69 Eyes'
period from 1998 to 2003 when the band broke into the mainstream
success in Finland and spread their Helsinki vampire bat wings over
Europe. "Blessed Be" and "Paris Kills" are considered
the band's classic gothic rock albums by both fans
and critics alike. Both albums are here re-mastered with bonus
tracks. The DVD is the same period's "Helsinki Vampires" also
re-mastered incl. live show at Tavastia, Helsinki from 2002, all the
videos, extras and also a never-before-released documentary "Bat
Habit" from the same period. The third CD is "Goth'N'Roll
Archives" which includes demos and never before released
material from 1998 to 2003. We await it with immense gothic glee! But this is not the end of news! ESP Guitar company, after a guitar piece for Timo Timo, has now designed a dream goth'n'roll guitar exclusively for Bazie! He will be offering his master solos on the first The 69 Eyes tour in Spring 2009 on a Phoenix II model with the characteristic 69 ankh symbol on the neck of the guitar.
ESP guitars are in the hands of such master shredders as Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe), Ron Wood (The Rolling Stones), Chuck Garric (Alice Cooper), Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir), Michael Paget (Bullet For My Valentine), Alexi Laiho (Children Of Bodom), Michael Amott (Arch Enemy) and many other rock virtuosi. ---------------- New tour announced for early 2009! The 69 Eyes will take a break from their studio work and spend a little time touring with Tiamat and Gothminister! Check tour! And if you haven't checked exclusive interviews with Jyrki69 on Croatian and Bosnian The 69 Eyes websites, as well as all live material from the Vampire Summer '08, do so now otherwise a terrible curse will befell you and your fangs will fall off! *evil scientist laugh* ---------------- New live video for "Feel Berlin" released, shot on the legendary show at Whisky A Go Go, documented on the live album! Check the official website or click here! New merchandise collection now available on X-tra-X! ----------------- Venia-Mag proudly presents a look into The 69 Eyes cave through the eyes of Jyrki69!
----------------- Angels Rising rose to another level of pure goth'n'roll mayhem - we're now www.angelsrising.info!!! You'll find all the latest news your favourite, the one, the only - HELSINKI VAMPIRES and feel that velvet touch coming to you from The 69 Eyes Croatian and Bosnian websites! |
Last
autumn in Finland saw the release of an album for children called
"Ipana 1" that has sold platinum and brought an expected extension
in the form of a new disc for children made together with the
leading Finnish pop and rock musicians.
