W.A.S. (Where Angels Suffer) is a new band featuring ex-members of W.A.S.P., Metal Church and Animal. (Chris Holmes, Randy Piper, Stet Howland, Rich Lewis and Steve Unger). The W.A.S. album will be released soon and is called Purgatory.
The Randy Piper's Animal band released 3 albums so far. The first one was not very good but the last 2 ones, Violent New Breed (2006) and Virus (2008) were excellent traditional metal IMO, very much in the early W.A.S.P. style, even the singer sounds like Blackie.
The problem is that when you take a look at the tracklisting of the supposedly new W.A.S. album, the 11 tracks all come from the last 2 Animal discs...How lame is that?
Swedish songwriter/producer Chris Laney is not impressed with what former bandmate Randy Piper is doing in new band When Angels Suffer.
Laney was a member of Randy Pipers Animal, and, Blabbermouth report, has issued the following strong statement:
Chris Laney has been contacted by fans that told him that his former band colleagues Randy Piper and Rich Lewis are in progress of releasing songs from the Randy Pipers Animal albums Violent New Breed, released in 2006, and Virus, released in 2008.
Chris Laney is both songwriter and producer of Violent New Breed and Virus.
Chris Laney was told that Randy Piper and Rich Lewis are releasing songs from those two albums, but under a new album name and with new band members and new band name. Randy Pipers new band is called W.A.S. (Where Angels Suffer) and the so-called new album is called Purgatory.
Chris Laney could not believe such a rip-off could be true, but when he checked the samples at Amazon, he was totally taken aback. All songs on Purgatory are taken from Violent New Breed and Virus without being re-recorded or remixed.
Chris Laney owns the mastertape and copyrights on Violent New Breed and Virus. The Swedish record label who released Violent New Breed and Virus owns the license rights on those two albums. In other words, all songs sampled at Amazon as W.A.S. album Purgatory are owned by others than W.A.S.
Chris Laney has contacted his old bandmates and awaits an answer. Chris Laney deeply hopes the song list and song samples for Purgatory is a giant misunderstanding.
Really weird situation...
Guillaume
The Randy Piper's Animal band released 3 albums so far. The first one was not very good but the last 2 ones, Violent New Breed (2006) and Virus (2008) were excellent traditional metal IMO, very much in the early W.A.S.P. style, even the singer sounds like Blackie.
The problem is that when you take a look at the tracklisting of the supposedly new W.A.S. album, the 11 tracks all come from the last 2 Animal discs...How lame is that?
Swedish songwriter/producer Chris Laney is not impressed with what former bandmate Randy Piper is doing in new band When Angels Suffer.
Laney was a member of Randy Pipers Animal, and, Blabbermouth report, has issued the following strong statement:
Chris Laney has been contacted by fans that told him that his former band colleagues Randy Piper and Rich Lewis are in progress of releasing songs from the Randy Pipers Animal albums Violent New Breed, released in 2006, and Virus, released in 2008.
Chris Laney is both songwriter and producer of Violent New Breed and Virus.
Chris Laney was told that Randy Piper and Rich Lewis are releasing songs from those two albums, but under a new album name and with new band members and new band name. Randy Pipers new band is called W.A.S. (Where Angels Suffer) and the so-called new album is called Purgatory.
Chris Laney could not believe such a rip-off could be true, but when he checked the samples at Amazon, he was totally taken aback. All songs on Purgatory are taken from Violent New Breed and Virus without being re-recorded or remixed.
Chris Laney owns the mastertape and copyrights on Violent New Breed and Virus. The Swedish record label who released Violent New Breed and Virus owns the license rights on those two albums. In other words, all songs sampled at Amazon as W.A.S. album Purgatory are owned by others than W.A.S.
Chris Laney has contacted his old bandmates and awaits an answer. Chris Laney deeply hopes the song list and song samples for Purgatory is a giant misunderstanding.
Really weird situation...
Guillaume
