Former HANOI ROCKS frontman MICHAEL MONROE's new solo album, Sensory Overdrive, has entered the official chart in his home country of Finland at #1, knocking CHILDREN OF BODOM's Relentless Reckless Forever out of the top position.

Sensory Overdrive was released on March 14 via Spinefarm Records, with the North American date set for May 17th. The album features guest appearances by MOTÖRHEAD's Lemmy Kilmister and Grammy-winning country/folk singer-songwriter LUCINDA WILLIAMS.

The album was recorded in Los Angeles with legendary producer Jack Douglas (AEROSMITH, JOHN LENNON, SLASH'S SNAKEPIT) and features WILDHEARTS mainman Ginger on guitar, ex-Hanoi member Sami Yaffa on bass, Steve Conte of NEW YORK DOLLS/COMPANY OF WOLVES fame on guitar, and Karl ‘Rockfist’ Rosqvist on drums (a Swedish/Finnish drummer who has played with both CHELSEA SMILES and DANZIG).

When asked about the the highlights of working with Jack Douglas, Monroe told Brave Words.com recently: "There were quite a few highlights working with Jack. He has great stories about AEROSMITH and JOHN LENNON, stuff like that of course. He's a fun guy. Working with him as a producer was really cool too. He has a lot of good arrangement ideas for the songs for example. Actually I started to recognize a certain pattern in his work when we were re-arranging the Lemmy song 'Debauchery as a Fine Art'. The song was originally called 'Motörheaded For A Fall' on the live album, Another Night In The Sun. Lemmy and I re-wrote the lyrics for the chorus and then I decided to call it 'Debauchery as a Fine Art' as it's a line in the lyrics. The third verse is different on the new studio version due to Jack's arrangement idea which is kinda similar to the Aerosmith song 'No More, No More' from Toys In The Attic as far as the arrangement goes. So I asked Jack if it he had something to do with the arrangement of 'No More, No More' - the way the third verse kinda holds there and builds up in the same way as in 'Debauchery As A Fine Art'. Jack said yeah that was his idea. I figured as much. It was a cool and a pleasant experience working with Jack. We lived in a rented house with Jack and the band except for Karl Rockfist. The only thing about LA is that I don't drive and I don't really like sitting in cars for too long. We were actually depending on Ginger as the chauffeur, which he kind of got fed up with towards the end. Karl could have been the chauffeur as he has a drivers license but he stayed in his own house so Ginger was driving us to the studio and back every day."

Read the entire interview here.