Madfish Music has introduced the digital launch of “Bonus Tracks And B-Sides” from W.A.S.P.‘s “The 7 Savage” field set.
W.A.S.P. has at all times been a band that embraced the uncooked energy of heavy steel whereas pushing the boundaries of its inventive imaginative and prescient. “Bonus Tracks And B-Sides”, the ultimate disc in “The 7 Savage” field set, is a treasure trove for die-hard followers, providing a glimpse into the unpolished, experimental, and daring facet of W.A.S.P. This assortment compiles uncommon tracks, dynamic covers, and deep cuts that showcase the band’s versatility and keenness for his or her craft.
Kicking off with the incendiary “Animal (F**ok Like A Beast)”, the disc instantly reminds us why W.A.S.P. carved their title into the annals of rock historical past. This controversial anthem, unapologetically provocative, set the tone for the band’s rebellious spirit.
Among the many gems, “Paint It Black” and “Mississippi Queen” spotlight the band’s knack for reinterpreting classics with a ferocious steel edge, paying homage to their influences whereas making the tracks undeniably their very own. Equally, their tackle JETHRO TULL‘s “Locomotive Breath” and LED ZEPPELIN‘s “When The Levee Breaks” demonstrates their means to merge technical mastery with unrelenting vitality.
Authentic tracks like “Savage” and “Flesh and Fireplace” ooze with the uncooked, theatrical depth that defines W.A.S.P.‘s signature sound, whereas “D.B. Blues” presents a playful departure into an surprising, virtually tongue-in-cheek territory.
The haunting “Phantoms In The Mirror” and the reflective “The Eulogy” supply a darker, extra introspective tone, contrasting fantastically with the thunderous “Warfare Cry”. After which there’s “The Story Of Jonathan (Prologue To The Crimson Idol)”, a sprawling 16-minute opus that gives a deeper dive into the conceptual world of “The Crimson Idol”, revealing the depth of Blackie Lawless‘s storytelling ambition.
“Bonus Tracks And B-Sides” is not only a assortment of outtakes — it is a celebration of the chaos, creativity, and charisma that made W.A.S.P. one of the crucial electrifying bands in rock historical past.
“Bonus Tracks And B-sides” observe itemizing:
01. Animal (F**ok Like A Beast) [03:07]
02. Present No Mercy [03:48]
03. Paint It Black [03:28]
04. Savage [03:33]
05. Mississippi Queen [03:22]
06. Flesh And Fireplace [04:38]
07. D.B. Blues [03:25]
08. Locomotive Breath [03:00]
09. For Whom The Bell Tolls [03:48]
10. Lake Of Fools [05:33]
11. Warfare Cry [05:33]
12. When The Levee Breaks [07:06]
13. Phantoms In The Mirror [04:36]
14. The Eulogy [04:16]
15. The Story Of Jonathan (Prologue To The Crimson Idol) [16:35]
W.A.S.P. accomplished the “Album ONE Alive” tour on December 14, 2024 on the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Together with bassist Mike Duda and lead guitarist Doug Blair, whose tenures within the band are 29 and 26 years respectively, W.A.S.P. is joined by longtime drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester.
The 39-city run made stops throughout North America in Vancouver, British Columbia; Toronto, Ontario; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dallas, Texas; New York Metropolis; Orlando, Florida; and extra earlier than wrapping up in Los Angeles.
To rejoice the Fortieth anniversary of W.A.S.P.‘s basic debut album, the band, for the primary time in 40 years, performed the complete album from prime to backside, begin to end, on “Album ONE Alive”. Help on the trek got here from ARMORED SAINT.
Throughout an look on an episode of “Speak Is Jericho”, the podcast hosted by wrestling famous person and FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho, W.A.S.P.‘s Blackie Lawless was requested if he was stunned by the fan response to the band’s first couple of U.S. excursions in 10 years, beginning with the autumn 2022 trek and persevering with with the Fortieth-anniversary tour. He mentioned: ”We did not know what to anticipate, however we discovered over time, in case you spend money on what you do, hopefully you may get return on it. And what I imply by that’s you make the very best information you may make, but additionally when it comes time to do the tour, you’ve got gotta spend the cash. This isn’t an affordable present that we do out right here. It is costly. It is costly to get constructed, it is costly to start out up. The weekly operating prices, you do not wanna learn about it. I imply, it isn’t low-cost. I perceive that in numerous conditions, numerous artists aren’t ready to do this, and I perceive that, however this isn’t a scenario the place we do fly dates. We simply cannot. It is too costly of a manufacturing. And we hope that the followers acknowledge that after they see what we do, as a result of we actually take a Broadway stage with us once we go. We now have two totally different — effectively, three, in case you wanna get technical — however we’ve got two main set adjustments you will notice between the primary half of the present and the second half of the present. And it is similar to seeing some other Broadway manufacturing, in case you would go to New York or one thing like that. So to set that stuff up each day, you’ve got gotta have numerous personnel, you’ve got gotta spend the cash to start out with, so it is detailed, to say the least. However that is the way in which we used to do it, and to attempt to give folks the very best bang for the buck, I nonetheless suppose that that is one of the best ways to do it.”
He added: “Hey, no one likes boring. No one likes regular. Let’s do one thing out of the odd. Let’s dare to stay our heads up above the gang and say, ‘Have a look at me.’ We have made a dwelling doing it.”
Requested if that was his mindset was from day one again in 1984 when he first began writing the W.A.S.P. songs, Blackie mentioned: “Truly, no. In no way. I let you know the reality, you are speaking a few band now that by no means had any intention of ever enjoying dwell. As a result of in L.A., we knew in these days, with the most important labels, you didn’t get document offers by enjoying dwell; you bought document offers by making a fantastic demo tape. So what we did is we recorded three totally different variations of what would ultimately grow to be our first document. And the final model that we did, we despatched ’em out to the majors. Six weeks glided by and we did not hear something. And we had lived in L.A. lengthy sufficient to know that on the six-week mark, in case you hadn’t heard something, you were not going to listen to something. So, we talked amongst ourselves and we thought, ‘You already know what? We predict these songs are okay. Why do not we take ’em out and play ’em dwell and see what sort of response we get?’ Then we began asking ourselves, ‘Effectively, what do you wanna do? You wanna stand there and take a look at your shoe tops and get arrested for loitering?’ We had a really darkish humorousness. We had been going out to flat-out entertain ourselves, and we’d suppose up concepts and simply begin guffawing. It is, like, ‘Okay, let’s do that.’ However you rapidly uncover, there is a line between one thing that is outrageous and one thing that is ridiculous. And that line typically will get blurred.”
Blackie continued: “Once I got here up with the concept of the noticed blades, one of many guys that labored for us within the crew, his dad had a steel store, nevertheless it was additionally a woodworking store — an enormous, big complicated. And we might go in there, and he gave us the run of the place. We constructed something we wished. And I got here from a building background, ‘trigger my dad had a building firm. so I knew methods to construct stuff. So we constructed all of the early props there. And in the future someone had modified one of many noticed blades. There was a desk noticed that had a 12-inch noticed blade on it. And he took it out and he propped it up within the window. He was gonna transfer it, however for expediency, he simply set it within the window so he might get the brand new blade in place. And I am taking a look at it within the windowsill and I simply began laughing. And the crew guys requested me, ‘What’s so humorous?’ I mentioned, ‘I simply had probably the most insane thought.’ I mentioned, ‘That is both gonna be the best factor ever, or I am gonna get laughed out of city.’ In order that’s the place that line, the place you do not at all times know… We glance again at it now and say, ‘Effectively, why did not you acknowledge that from the start?’ As a result of typically you do not know till you check it on folks, and we did that with all these early props. We did not know what was gonna work and what did not, and thankfully for us, most of it labored.”
Due to the in depth again accidents Lawless suffered throughout the European leg of W.A.S.P.‘s Fortieth-anniversary tour, the band’s beforehand introduced 2023 U.S. tour was canceled.
W.A.S.P.‘s huge European leg of the Fortieth-anniversary world tour wrapped on Might 18, 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports activities Corridor.
W.A.S.P. wrapped up its first U.S. tour in 10 years with a sold-out present on December 11, 2022 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. This marked the 18th sold-out reveals for the U.S. tour, which kicked off in late October 2022. W.A.S.P.‘s performances included the return of the band’s basic tune “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)”, which hadn’t been performed dwell in over 15 years.
W.A.S.P.‘s newest launch was “ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)”, which got here out in February 2018. It was a brand new model of the band’s basic 1992 album “The Crimson Idol”, which was re-recorded to accompany the film of the identical title to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the unique LP’s launch. The re-recorded model additionally options 4 songs lacking from the unique album.
W.A.S.P.‘s most up-to-date studio album of all-new unique materials was 2015’s “Golgotha”.
