The release of THE 69 EYES' 30-years-anniversary album is getting closer - on September 13th, Finland's dark rockers are set to release their 12th offering, West End, via Nuclear Blast and have revealed another single today - the sinister rock hymn "Black Orchid"!
"This is the most straight forward Gothic Rock song on the album", explains singer Jyrki 69. "The guy talking in the lyrics is a similar kind of old fashioned adventurer like the guy in white in SISTER OF MERCY's "Dominion" music video. He likes independent women, nightlife and reads E.A. Poe and Hermann Hesse.
The lyric video is done like all the music videos on this album, with Los Angeles-based director Vicente Cordero. It was filmed during THE 69 EYES show at The Regent Theater in LA last May. Wednesday 13, DEVILDRIVERs Dez Fafara and FASTER PUSSYCATs Taime Downe can be seen backstage among the other usual suspects."
Watch the video clip of "Black Orchid" on KNAC.COM HERE.
11 up-tempo rock anthems full of heaviness, black memento mori moments and dark humour await you on THE 69 EYES' new studio album West End that features several top notch guest vocalists including CRADLE OF FILTH's Dani Filth, Wednesday 13 and BEASTO BLANCO's Calico Cooper.
In November, THE 69 EYES will hit the road to play a European tour and have announced the German gothic rock institution LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE as support for their West End Tour 2019.
See the full touring schedule here:
- 14.09. FIN Radio Rock Cruise, Helsinki Tallinn Helsinki
- 20.09. FIN Viking Grace, Turku Stockholm Turku
- 25.09. FIN Tampere - Klubi
- 28.09. FIN Δhtδri - Club B 52
- 04.10. FIN Hδmeenlinna - Aulanko Areena
- 05.10. FIN Mikkeli - Wilhelm Public House
- 10.10. FIN Kuopio - Henrys Pub
- 11.10. FIN Joensuu - Ravintola Kerubi
- 12.10. FIN Kotka - Ravintola Leikari
- 25.10. FIN Jyvδskylδ - Lutakko
- 26.10. FIN Seinδjoki - Rytmikorjaamo
- 01.11. FIN Helsinki - Tavastia
THE 69 EYES - West End Tour 2019
w/ LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE
- 02.11. D Leipzig - Hellraiser
- 03.11. D Berlin - SO36
- 05.11. D Hamburg - Logo
- 06.11. D Cologne - Essigfabrik
- 07.11. D Stuttgart - Wizemann Club
- 08.11. D Munich - Backstage (Halle)
- 09.11. CZ Prague - Meet Factory
- 11.11. PL Wroclaw - Stary Klasztor
- 12.11. HU Budapest - Barba Negra
- 13.11. SK Bratislava - Atelier Babylon
- 14.11. AT Vienna - Chelsea
- 16.11. IT Parma - Campus Music Industry
- 17.11. CH Pratteln - Z7
- 19.11. D Trier - Mergener Hof
- 20.11. F Paris - Backstage by the Mill
- 21.11. UK London - The Garage
- 23.11. D Oberhausen - Kulttempel
- 24.11. D Frankfurt Zoom
Catch THE 69 EYES also in 2020:
- 06.03. LVA Riga - Melna Piektdiena
- 07.03. LTU Vilnius - Vakaris
- 08.03. BLR Minsk - Republic
- 10.03. UKR Lviv - Festrepublic
- 11.03. UKR Kiev - Atlas
- 13.03. RUS St.Petersburg - Zal
- 14.03. RUS Moscow - RED
- 16.03. RUS Khabarovsk - Velicano
- 17.03. RUS Vladivostok - Kraft