MURDERDOLLS - "We're Not Writing Anything From Frankenstein Or Dracula"
July 1, 2010, 14 years ago
Bret Dugmore and Sergio Pereir of South Africa's Music Review recently interviewed Joey Jordison of MURDERDOLLS, an excerpt follows:
Women and Children Last is distinctively heavier than Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls. Do you think this change might upset some of your older fans who enjoyed the glam/horror punk sound of before?
"‘Summertime Suicide’, ‘Blood-Stained Valentine’, ‘Homicide Drive’ and ‘Chapel Of Blood’ [tracks off of Women And Children Last]; those are all more stories, we’re not writing anything from Frankenstein or Dracula or Dawn Of The Dead anymore. The first album was great – and I love it for what it was – but I’m not repeating what we’ve done before. The new record is obviously a lot more heavier and a lot more direct; just the way I wanted the Murderdolls to sound. You know, when we did the first one [album], we just wanted to go out and have fun – we didn’t really care about a direction overall. Whereas now, we’ve been working on a direction for about a couple of years now."How did it feel to hit the stage with Wednesday (13) again after all these years? Was there any fear or pre-show jitters?
"No, no, absolutely not. When we hit those first two shows, those were better than any Murderdolls shows that we ever did during the whole year-and-a-half, almost two-year run of the first record. The whole band is different now; we have a different attitude and we’re way more aggressive. Wednesday is a completely different singer than he was before. I’m a way better guitar player. The band that we put together is way more lethal, so I think people are gonna be really surprised."To read the review in its entirety, click here.
As previously reported, Murderdolls will release Women And Children Last on August 31st via Roadrunner Records. The first single, 'My Dark Place Alone' is available now via iTunes and the Amazon link below.
