L.A. GUNS, that includes singer Phil Lewis and guitarist Tracii Weapons, has launched a brand new tune referred to as “Shattered Glass”. The observe, which might be streamed under, is taken from the band’s upcoming studio album, “Black Diamonds”, which is able to arrive on April 14. This would be the fourth studio album for the reason that much-welcome reunion of the band’s core basis of Lewis and Weapons. It would comply with the well-received studio albums “The Lacking Peace”, “The Satan You Know” and “Checkered Previous”, plus the dwell launch “Made In Milan”, and a covers EP “One other Xmas In Hell”.
Final October, Lewis took to his private Fb web page to share the “Black Diamonds” title and observe itemizing, and he included the next message: “Extremely pleased to announce the completion of our forth document (publish reunion). Nice songs, implausible taking part in and a number of the finest singing of my profession. It is heavy and darkish in locations and shiny n breezy in others. It is all over as per our common model. I feel it is the most effective factor we have ever carried out however yeah I do know I say that about all of them however I really love this document and had enjoyable recording elements on the tour wagon after which 5 intense days doing vocals with Mitch [Davis] in NYC. After all the anticipate it to drop will probably be excruciating however I will do my finest to include the thrill. Critically it is implausible and also you’re all gonna like it.”
Written and recorded over the course of 2022, “Black Diamonds” sees Weapons, Lewis and firm persevering with on the identical profitable and provoking sonic journey that they have been taking up their most up-to-date albums. The band does not shrink back from flexing their onerous rock influences as they all the time have, but in addition incorporates extra introspective acoustic tracks reflective of their basic rock influences from the ’70s. This makes for a potent and extremely listenable cocktail of an album in “Black Diamonds”.
“Black Diamonds” observe itemizing:
01. You Betray
02. Flawed About You
03. Diamonds
04. Babylon
05. Disgrace
06. Shattered Glass
07. Gonna Lose
08. Bought It Flawed
09. Lowlife
10. Crying
11. Like A Drug
“Checkered Previous” was launched in November 2021 through Frontiers Music Srl.
In April 2021, a settlement was reached between drummer Steve Riley and Weapons and Lewis over the rights to the L.A. GUNS identify. Below the phrases of the settlement settlement, Weapons and Lewis proceed to function underneath the L.A. GUNS trademark, whereas Riley and his bandmates from the opposite model of L.A. GUNS at the moment are working underneath the brand new identify RILEY’S L.A. GUNS.
L.A. GUNS was fashioned in 1983 and have bought over six million data, together with 1988’s “L.A. Weapons” and 1990’s “Cocked And Loaded”, each of which have been licensed gold. “Cocked And Loaded” contained the hit single “The Ballad Of Jayne” that went to No. 33 on Billboard‘s Sizzling 100 and No. 25 on the Mainstream Rock charts. From the mid-’90s to the mid 2000s, L.A. GUNS continued to tour and launch new music. Following their profitable efficiency at SiriusXM‘s Hair Nation competition in September 2016, L.A. GUNS went into the studio to document the critically acclaimed “The Lacking Peace”, which was the highest-selling launch for Frontiers Music Srl in 2017. Their twelfth album, “The Satan You Know”, was launched in 2019 to the identical important acclaim. Since reuniting, Tracii and Phil proceed to tour all over the world with L.A. GUNS, which at the moment contains Johnny Martin (bass) and Ace Von Johnson (guitar).
