The primary-ever solo music from MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars will make its official debut on Halloween (October 31).
The as-yet-undisclosed observe will obtain its world premiere on October 30 by way of SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” earlier than being launched by way of all digital music companies the following day.
On Wednesday (October 18),Mars shared a 13-day countdown timer, whereas “Trunk Nation” host Eddie Trunk posted the next message by way of social media: “Happy to announce that I can be bringing you the world premier of the primary ever solo music from @mrmickmars on #trunknation ! I will debut the music 10/30, Mick will be part of me for an interview 10/31! @SIRIUSXM 103 Faction Discuss @TrunkNationSXM . 3P ET”.
This previous June, Mars informed Rolling Stone in an interview that he was looking for out a file label to launch his upcoming debut solo album, “One other Aspect Of Mars”. Songtitles set to seem on the CD, which is described by Rolling Stone author Andy Greene as “darker and extra aggressive than something within the CRÜE catalog,” embody “Damaged On The Inside”, “Alone”, “Lonely In Your Grave”, “Loyal To The Lie”, “Decay”, “Concern”, “Recollections” and “Erased”.
Mars went on to say that he will not hit the highway in assist of the upcoming LP. “I am accomplished touring,” he stated. “If any individual actually, actually needs a one-off, or a few nights, I might in all probability do it. However all that journey stuff and planes … I am approach over it.”
Mick additionally revealed that he just lately bought his share of the publishing rights to the CRÜE catalog. “The deal was simply finalized,” he informed Rolling Stone. “Now I can chill out and do not have to fret about something, since, like I stated, I am in all probability simply going to dwell one other seven or eight years.”
When requested how he is aware of he will not dwell longer than eight years, the now-72-year-old stated: “I am sufficiently old, man. I am not going to dwell to be 85 or 90, I simply have a sense. I do not wish to, both. My mind would not need this ugly-ass physique that is all fucked as much as hold going. I want I might simply take the data out of my mind, put it on a chip and into any individual else, or a robotic. There’s nonetheless a variety of stuff happening up there.”
In April 2022, Paul Taylor, nicely generally known as an achieved guitarist/keyboardist who has labored with numerous artists as a composer and musician over the a long time, most famously with WINGER, revealed throughout an look on the “Sonic Dorms” podcast that he spent “the final couple of years” collaborating with Mars on the CRÜE guitarist’s long-awaited solo album.
“I wrote many of the file with Mick and [Alabama musician] Jacob Bunton, who sang with [former GUNS N’ ROSES drummer] Steve Adler,” Paul stated. “Me and Jacob have written a variety of stuff for TV collectively. I am actually excited to have that come out.”
Taylor went on to say that he was impressed with Mick‘s expertise as a guitarist and a songwriter.
“Mick is so superior, and simply the countless cool issues he comes up with and the palette of sounds,” he stated. “There’s days I simply go, ‘Is that guitar? Is that you just doing all that?’ [It’s been] actually enjoyable. I am very enthusiastic about that.”
Based on Taylor, he labored with Mars and Bunton on Mick‘s solo album “for 12 months and a half. And Mick would not actually need me to say an excessive amount of about it,” he defined. “However he stated it is okay simply to say it is a heavy file — it is positively heavy — and it very versatile. I really feel actually fortunate that I received to take a seat and work with him and switch these items into songs. I feel it is gonna blow some folks away. It is actually cool.”
Mars has been engaged on his solo disc — on and off — for at the very least the previous seven years. A few of the early periods for the LP had been helmed by just lately retired producer Michael Wagener (OZZY OSBOURNE, ACCEPT, WARRANT, SKID ROW) at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, the place Mars has lived for a few decade.
Three years in the past, Bunton revealed that he was the lead singer on Mars‘s solo album. Talking to AL.com, Bunton, who has beforehand additionally performed with LYNAM, stated about his collaboration with Mars: “I can inform you that I am concerned and the previous a number of months we wrote and recorded a file and Michael Wagener produced it. The nice Michael Wagener from [mixing 1986 METALLICA album] ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ and all that form of stuff. He labored with MÖTLEY CRÜE on their very first file ‘Too Quick For Love’, after they did it themselves they recorded the file after which Michael Wagener blended, after which after they received the file cope with Elektra, [QUEEN producer] Roy Thomas Baker ended up going again and remixing it. However on all of their self-released copies, it is Michael. However to make an extended story brief, Michael‘s producing the file as a result of that was the primary producer Mick labored with in MÖTLEY CRÜE, so he wished to do his solo album, so it has been actually cool. We have been recording it in Nashville and we’re nearly accomplished.”
Relating to what followers can count on from Mars‘s solo CD, Bunton stated: “The songs are actually cool, the file is absolutely cool. He is such an ingenious participant and his riffs are insane and it is positively going to be what persons are anticipating. Once they hear it … It is actually cool.”
In September 2019, Mick informed Billboard concerning the musical route of his solo materials: “[It’s] not like right now’s music, which to me is just about pop metallic and extra growly guys. It is all cool and it is all good, and I am simply looking for one thing that is just a bit completely different than that. I [also] do not wish to be residing in ’85. It is arduous to reinvent your self, however that is what I am doing now. I am attempting to reinvent the best way that I method music writing. I’ve received a variety of crap, and I’ve received a variety of good things too.”
On the time of the Billboard interview, Mars stated that he had been working with a vocalist named Jacob, main some followers to take a position that he was referring to Bunton. “[He] might be a variety of completely different voices, and it is fairly wonderful,” Mick stated. “I’m going, ‘I need this type of voice right here,’ and he’ll pull it straight off.”
In a separate interview with “Speaking Steel”, Mars stated that his debut solo file won’t sound like anyone else. “Nicely, I assume it is my very own model,” he stated. “It is not actually blues. My enjoying has a blues factor to it, in fact, nevertheless it is not what you’d name a blues file. It is extra of a heavier rock factor, however I do not wanna even attempt to ‘outheavy’ the heavies, you understand what I imply? It is simply one thing hopefully just a bit completely different than what is going on on now. You are not gonna hear a MÖTLEY-flavored music, aside from the guitar, [because] that is me. They’re gonna be a bit more durable than that, however not as arduous because the heavies, like MINISTRY and a few of these guys.”
In December 2021, former MÖTLEY CRÜE singer John Corabi stated that he did not know if the songs he recorded with Mars seven years in the past will make it to the MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist’s solo LP.
Again in 2016, Mars launched snippets of two solo songs, apparently known as “Gimme Blood” and “Shake The Cage”. The tracks, which had been recorded on the aforementioned Blackbird Studio, featured Corabi, who appeared on CRÜE‘s 1994 self-titled album. Corabi later stated that he did not contribute to the writing course of for the 2 songs, however that he was open to collaborating with Mars on some model new materials.
In August 2021, KORN drummer Ray Luzier confirmed that he’s a featured visitor on Mars‘s solo album. Earlier this month, former ACCEPT bassist Peter Baltes additionally stated he’s featured on the LP.
When Mars introduced his retirement from touring with MÖTLEY CRÜE final October, he maintained that he would stay a member of the band, with John 5 taking his place on the highway. Nonetheless, this previous April the musician filed a lawsuit in opposition to CRÜE in Los Angeles County’s Superior Courtroom claiming that, after his announcement, the remainder of CRÜE tried to take away him as a big stakeholder within the group’s company and enterprise holdings by way of a shareholders’ assembly.
