Wednesday 13 recently appeared on Rue Morgue TV to offer thoughts on both his career, and his new album, Mid Death Crisis.
During the chat, which can be seen below, W13 expounds upon “When The Devil Commands”, the first single and video from Mid Death Crisis. An excerpt has been transcribed as follows:
With the theme of the album, there’s a bit of a Satanic Panic thing going on.
W13: “Definitely the single, ‘When The Devil Commands’, is specifically toward that Satanic Panic thing. But I think, overall, I’ve always kept that in the back of my mind; cause I went through it. I was an ’80s kid. My mom was watching all the religious shows on Sunday. I was in North Carolina, the Bible Belt. She watched the local shows that said, ‘You’ve got to go into your children’s bedroom. If there is a star on their notebook, they are possessed.’ My mom goes into my notebook and she finds a pentagram, cause I’ve got one. I didn’t know what it meant. I just saw a kid draw it in class and I copied him. But it was there, the evidence. It was done. She thought I was going to be possessed by rock music. I wasn’t even listening to the bad stuff. I was listening to glam rock. I didn’t have Slayer yet. But that was a real deal.”
W13: “So, when I wrote that song, ‘When The Devil Commands’, the lyrics of that is like ode to my mom. If I could go back in time, and take this cassette, and put it into my collection, and just literally set it up for her. Almost like where it’s, ‘read me.’ She would open it up and if those lyrics could read out to her. I literally wrote it out, just what the lyrics are, where she would be horrified! Not thinking, I wonder if this is… No, this is, all in the name of blasphemy, when the Devil speaks he speaks to me.”
Currently hitting venues across North America on his “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” tour celebrating 20 years of Transylvania 90210, world-renowned fearsome frontman Wednesday 13 returns with the second single cut from his new full-length album, Mid Death Crisis, set to drop on April 25 via Napalm Records.
Following acclaimed, ultra-catchy latest single “When The Devil Commands”, brand new second single “In Misery” is a spooky rager, scratching the itch of both goth-punk and sleaze metal while deftly ebbing and flowing amid heavy genre influences and an earworm hook.
Wednesday 13 comments about “In Misery”: “There are too many love songs out there about people confessing their love to one another. I wanted to do the exact opposite, and confess the misery of being in a bad relationship. Hopelessly, madly in misery with someone. I see it every day, people miserable together. I see it almost as much as I see people happily together. Some people enjoy misery, and this song is about enjoying that misery as much as someone in love.”
Eerie introductory track “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” vibrates with electricity before industrial-tinged “Decease and Desist” kicks in full blast. Wednesday 13’s trademark crooning wastes no time entering the fold as he careens through the high-octane horror anthem, before tracks like “Rotting Away” and “Blood Storm” ensnare with metallic goth-punk energy that will have crowds moving wall to wall. Featuring Faster Pussycat’s Taime Downe on guest vocals, standout heavy rocker “No Apologies” is a fast-romping exorcism of toxic demons, while the triumphant mini-murder ballad “Decapitation” riles up listeners with a catchy lead riff before making a hard left into a theatrical bridge straight out of a sinister ’60s sock hop! Ragers like “In Misery,” “Xanaxtasy” and “Sick and Violent” explore various genres of metal, injecting the album with elements of gripping heaviness for any listener, while downtempo stunners “I Hurt You” and “My Funeral” approach a more pensive territory.
Although its title, Mid Death Crisis, may suggest otherwise, the Duke of Spook shows zero signs of stopping on this refreshingly powerful and multi-faceted entry into the Wednesday 13 hall of horrific history!
Mid Death Crisis will be available in the following formats:
– 1CD Digisleeve
– 1LP Gatefold Black
– 1LP Gatefold Red/Black Cross w/ 12″ booklet (24pp), slipmat, record butler, 2 beer coasters, 2 postcards and 2 stickers – Napalm mail order only, limited to 500
– Digital Album
Pre-order here.
Tracklisting:
“There’s No Such Thing As Monsters”
“Decease And Desist”
“When The Devil Commands”
“Rotting Away”
“No Apologies” (feat. Taime Downe)
“Decapitation”
“In Misery”
“Blood Storm”
“Xanaxtasy”
“I Hurt You”
“My Funeral”
“Sick And Violent”
The North American “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” tour kicked off on March 14 in Las Vegas, NV. The tour celebrates 20 years of Transylvania 90210 and will include a “best of” Murderdolls set. See below for all tour dates, including the following UK/EU “Summer Blood Storm” headline run.
Remaining Tour Dates:
April
8 – Baltimore, MD – Zen West
9 – Leesburg, VA – Tally Ho
10 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
12 – Hampton Beach, NH – Wallys
13 – Montreal, QC – Foufounes Electrique
15 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
16 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
18 – New York, NY – The Gramercy
19 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater
20 – Lititz, PA – Mickey’s Black Box
22 – Pittsburgh, PA – Crafthouse
23 – Cleveland, OH – Mercury
25 – Columbus, OH – The Kings Of Clubs
26 – Flint, MI – Machine Shop
27 – Cadillac, MI – Venue Event Center
29 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
30 – Madison, WI – The Annex
May
2 – Denver, CO – Oriental Theater
3 – Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
July
24 – Buckley, Wales – Tivoli
25 – Ebbw Vale, Wales – Steelhouse Festival
26 – Birmingham, England – Asylum
27 – Preston, England – The Blitz Tue
29 – Sheffield, England – Corporation
30 – Brighton, England – Chalk
August
3 – Prague, Czech Republic – Rock Cafe
5 – Vienna, Austria – Simm City
6 – Salzburg, Austria – Rockhouse
7 – Saarbrucken, Germany – The Garage
8 – Kortrijk, Belgium – Alcatraz Festival
9 – Utrecht, Netherlands – De Helling
Wednesday 13 is:
Wednesday 13 – Lead Vocals + Guitar
Jack Tankersley – Guitar
Troy Doebbler – Bass
Mike Dupke – Drums
Ashes – Lead Guitar
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During the chat, which can be seen below, W13 expounds upon “When The Devil Commands”, the first single and video from Mid Death Crisis. An excerpt has been transcribed as follows:
With the theme of the album, there’s a bit of a Satanic Panic thing going on.
W13: “Definitely the single, ‘When The Devil Commands’, is specifically toward that Satanic Panic thing. But I think, overall, I’ve always kept that in the back of my mind; cause I went through it. I was an ’80s kid. My mom was watching all the religious shows on Sunday. I was in North Carolina, the Bible Belt. She watched the local shows that said, ‘You’ve got to go into your children’s bedroom. If there is a star on their notebook, they are possessed.’ My mom goes into my notebook and she finds a pentagram, cause I’ve got one. I didn’t know what it meant. I just saw a kid draw it in class and I copied him. But it was there, the evidence. It was done. She thought I was going to be possessed by rock music. I wasn’t even listening to the bad stuff. I was listening to glam rock. I didn’t have Slayer yet. But that was a real deal.”
W13: “So, when I wrote that song, ‘When The Devil Commands’, the lyrics of that is like ode to my mom. If I could go back in time, and take this cassette, and put it into my collection, and just literally set it up for her. Almost like where it’s, ‘read me.’ She would open it up and if those lyrics could read out to her. I literally wrote it out, just what the lyrics are, where she would be horrified! Not thinking, I wonder if this is… No, this is, all in the name of blasphemy, when the Devil speaks he speaks to me.”
Currently hitting venues across North America on his “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” tour celebrating 20 years of Transylvania 90210, world-renowned fearsome frontman Wednesday 13 returns with the second single cut from his new full-length album, Mid Death Crisis, set to drop on April 25 via Napalm Records.
Following acclaimed, ultra-catchy latest single “When The Devil Commands”, brand new second single “In Misery” is a spooky rager, scratching the itch of both goth-punk and sleaze metal while deftly ebbing and flowing amid heavy genre influences and an earworm hook.
Wednesday 13 comments about “In Misery”: “There are too many love songs out there about people confessing their love to one another. I wanted to do the exact opposite, and confess the misery of being in a bad relationship. Hopelessly, madly in misery with someone. I see it every day, people miserable together. I see it almost as much as I see people happily together. Some people enjoy misery, and this song is about enjoying that misery as much as someone in love.”
Eerie introductory track “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” vibrates with electricity before industrial-tinged “Decease and Desist” kicks in full blast. Wednesday 13’s trademark crooning wastes no time entering the fold as he careens through the high-octane horror anthem, before tracks like “Rotting Away” and “Blood Storm” ensnare with metallic goth-punk energy that will have crowds moving wall to wall. Featuring Faster Pussycat’s Taime Downe on guest vocals, standout heavy rocker “No Apologies” is a fast-romping exorcism of toxic demons, while the triumphant mini-murder ballad “Decapitation” riles up listeners with a catchy lead riff before making a hard left into a theatrical bridge straight out of a sinister ’60s sock hop! Ragers like “In Misery,” “Xanaxtasy” and “Sick and Violent” explore various genres of metal, injecting the album with elements of gripping heaviness for any listener, while downtempo stunners “I Hurt You” and “My Funeral” approach a more pensive territory.
Although its title, Mid Death Crisis, may suggest otherwise, the Duke of Spook shows zero signs of stopping on this refreshingly powerful and multi-faceted entry into the Wednesday 13 hall of horrific history!
Mid Death Crisis will be available in the following formats:
– 1CD Digisleeve
– 1LP Gatefold Black
– 1LP Gatefold Red/Black Cross w/ 12″ booklet (24pp), slipmat, record butler, 2 beer coasters, 2 postcards and 2 stickers – Napalm mail order only, limited to 500
– Digital Album
Pre-order here.
Tracklisting:
“There’s No Such Thing As Monsters”
“Decease And Desist”
“When The Devil Commands”
“Rotting Away”
“No Apologies” (feat. Taime Downe)
“Decapitation”
“In Misery”
“Blood Storm”
“Xanaxtasy”
“I Hurt You”
“My Funeral”
“Sick And Violent”
The North American “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” tour kicked off on March 14 in Las Vegas, NV. The tour celebrates 20 years of Transylvania 90210 and will include a “best of” Murderdolls set. See below for all tour dates, including the following UK/EU “Summer Blood Storm” headline run.
Remaining Tour Dates:
April
8 – Baltimore, MD – Zen West
9 – Leesburg, VA – Tally Ho
10 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
12 – Hampton Beach, NH – Wallys
13 – Montreal, QC – Foufounes Electrique
15 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
16 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
18 – New York, NY – The Gramercy
19 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater
20 – Lititz, PA – Mickey’s Black Box
22 – Pittsburgh, PA – Crafthouse
23 – Cleveland, OH – Mercury
25 – Columbus, OH – The Kings Of Clubs
26 – Flint, MI – Machine Shop
27 – Cadillac, MI – Venue Event Center
29 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
30 – Madison, WI – The Annex
May
2 – Denver, CO – Oriental Theater
3 – Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
July
24 – Buckley, Wales – Tivoli
25 – Ebbw Vale, Wales – Steelhouse Festival
26 – Birmingham, England – Asylum
27 – Preston, England – The Blitz Tue
29 – Sheffield, England – Corporation
30 – Brighton, England – Chalk
August
3 – Prague, Czech Republic – Rock Cafe
5 – Vienna, Austria – Simm City
6 – Salzburg, Austria – Rockhouse
7 – Saarbrucken, Germany – The Garage
8 – Kortrijk, Belgium – Alcatraz Festival
9 – Utrecht, Netherlands – De Helling
Wednesday 13 is:
Wednesday 13 – Lead Vocals + Guitar
Jack Tankersley – Guitar
Troy Doebbler – Bass
Mike Dupke – Drums
Ashes – Lead Guitar
The post WEDNESDAY 13 – “‘When The Devil Commands’ Is Like Ode To My Mom” appeared first on BraveWords - Where Music Lives.
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