{"id":13171,"date":"2020-08-29T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13171"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:48:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:48:58","slug":"compulsions-announce-release-date-guns-n-roses-rolling-stones-covers-available-with-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13171","title":{"rendered":"COMPULSIONS Announce Release Date; GUNS N\u2019 ROSES, ROLLING STONES Covers Available With Pre-order"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMPULSIONS Announce Release Date;\u00a0<\/strong>GUNS N\u2019 ROSES, ROLLING STONES Covers\u00a0<\/strong>Available With Pre-order<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s been five years since front man Rob Carlyle and his Compulsions cohorts released their widely and wildly acclaimed sophomore album, Dirty Fun. Like previous Compulsions output, Dirty Fun was an underground rock \u2018n\u2019 roll masterpiece, inspiring critics to describe the independent New York band in the most glowing terms imaginable. Take, for example, revered webzine PleaseKillMe.com, with its gushing and highly provocative headline: \u201cMove Over Axl! Here Comes Rob Carlyle & The Compulsions!\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, these rave reviews often compared The Compulsions extremely favorably to a long list of rock luminaries such as Aerosmith, Faces, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The New York Dolls and even The Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n

But despite such widespread acclaim, mainstream success would elude Carlyle with the subsequent disintegration of his much buzzed-about core line up: guitarist, Richard Fortus, bassist, Sami Yaffa and drummer, Frank Ferrer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yaffa, also known for his time with Hanoi Rocks and the aforementioned Dolls, would move back to Europe so he could fully devote himself to making music with longtime buddy and hair metal progenitor, Michael Monroe. While Ferrer and Fortus would choose to continue performing to mixed reviews as replacement players in Guns N\u2019 Roses on their seemingly never-ending Not in This Lifetime Tour.<\/p>\n

These departures were crippling blows that would\u2019ve caused a lesser front man to call it quits \u2013 but that\u2019s not Rob Carlyle\u2019s style.<\/p>\n

Too determined (and perhaps too crazy) to simply fade into obscurity, the shaggy-haired vocalist\/guitarist instead hunkered down and went back to doing what he does best: writing and recording today\u2019s most dark, dirty and dangerous rock \u2018n\u2019 roll songs \u2013 and the resulting album, Ferocious, more than lives up to its name.<\/p>\n

Past Compulsions releases Beat the Devil (2011) and Dirty Fun (2015), were ambitious albums of staggering scope and size and Ferocious certainly follows suit, with everything from old-school roots rock to back-alley sleaze-punk to funk-metal mayhem.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Furthermore, to help flesh out the tracks, Carlyle enlisted the very best local musicians he could find, including world-renowned guitarists, Earl Slick and Ron \u201cBumblefoot\u201d Thal, best known for their work with David Bowie and Guns N\u2019 Roses, respectively; along with former Raging Slab bassist, Alec Morton, and former Dolls drummer, Brian Delaney, who replaced Ferrer midway through production.<\/p>\n

Music fans starving to hear from a real deal rock \u2018n\u2019 roller, instead of what passes for talent in today\u2019s music world, are sure to lose their minds over the super rootsy \u201cBorn on a Landfill,\u201d \u201cFerocious,\u201d \u201cKiller in the Woodshed,\u201d and \u201cMan with No Name,\u201d the metallic madness of \u201cAddicted,\u201d \u201cBand of Thieves,\u201d \u201cDirtbag Blues\u201d and \u201cFunk #666,\u201d and of course the drastically overhauled twin covers, \u201cDead Flowers\u201d and \u201cDust N\u2019 Bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlyle explains the choice of covers on Ferocious:<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since I started The Compulsions, the idea was to create a sound that lives somewhere between The Stones and GN\u2019R. Like if you put Sticky Fingers and Appetite for Destruction in a blender. So, this time around, I thought let\u2019s just spell it out for people by actually covering those two bands. I\u2019ve always loved \u2018Dead Flowers\u2019 and \u2018Dust N\u2019 Bones,\u2019 anyway, and I had a pretty good idea of how to put our own spin on those songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long-awaited Ferocious will finally be available via Amazon, Spotify and other outlets on Friday, November 13, 2020 \u2013 but eager rock fans can grab advance tracks \u201cDead Flowers\u201d and \u201cDust N\u2019 Bones\u201d today by pre-ordering Ferocious right now from\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to announcing a November 13 release date, a third teaser video for Ferocious has been posted by The Compulsions, with Carlyle, Bumblefoot, Morton, Ferrer and synth wizard, Andrew Sherman, performing \u201cFunk #666\u201d as the apocalyptic soundtrack. It\u2019s an epic number where funk collides with metal and gets scorched to a crisp by the face-melting fretwork of Bumblefoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love all the tracks on Ferocious. But the music and lyrics of \u2018Funk #666\u2019 seem to really capture all the doom and gloom going on in the world today \u2013 and what\u2019s kinda eerie is I wrote that song five years ago!\u201d says Carlyle.<\/p>\n

Check out the brand-new teaser video featuring \u201cFunk #666\u201d<\/p>\n