HarperCollins Publishers imprint William Morrow has set April 26th as the tentative release date for the new book, This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of NIKKI SIXX. Check out the book cover below:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Dairies, MÖTLEY CRÜE's Nikki Sixx, refuses to become a sanitized PSA for suburban mothers; instead, he has found strength and inspiration in his pain and sobriety, and in this raw and powerful book gives us a glimpse inside his sick and dirty mind

This Is Gonna Hurt includes a foreword by Kat Von D on "Love and Inspiration."

Following the success of the New York Times bestseller, The Heroin Diaries, the author's solo band, SIXX: A.M., is recording an album to be released in conjunction with This Is Gonna Hurt. Some of the songs were inspired by the author's photographs; others inspired photographs of their own.

This Is Gonna Hurt will include more than two dozen of the author's images. He will incorporate the stories behind the pictures and how they came to be, including interviews with the subjects so readers can see "what life is like for those whom society has labeled as freaks."

"I've always had an eye for the oddities in life. Even as a kid I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird. People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are." - Nikki Sixx

Few of us have experienced life with the intensity, fury, and reckless abandon of Nikki Sixx, the wild rock star, driven entrepreneur, devoted father, former addict, bestselling author, and gifted photographer.

This Is Gonna Hurt is part photo, part journal - but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling snapshots and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Told with the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experience, from his early years filled with toxic waste to his success with Mötley Crüe, his death from an OD and rebirth to his addictions to music, photography, and love.

Love story, bad-ass rock tell-all, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending - a search that fuels Sixx's being.

"I want to take you on the journey I am on, in real time," Sixx writes. "If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt."