09/04/2007 22:49

Lizzy Borden

Lizzy Borden: 'Appointment with Death'

Just in time, some weeks before its actual release, the one and only Lizzy Borden gives some details about the newest effort 'Appointment with Death'

Tracklist:
1. Abnormal
2. Appointment with Death
3. Live Forever
4. Bloody Tears
5. The Death of Love
6. Tomorrow Never Comes
7. Under Your Skin
8. Perfect World (I Don't Wanna Live)
9. Somethin's Crawlin
10. (We Are) The Only Ones
11. The Darker Side

Now, years in the making, Lizzy Borden pulls back the cloak to unveil his latest and most frightening creation, 'Appointment with Death' (2007), a fatalistic journey to the final destination damned by the wings of death.

This is Lizzy Borden's first new studio recording since 'Deal with the Devil' (2000).

'Appointment with Death' was produced by L. Borden and J. Scott. It was recorded at the Zanzibar Studios in N. Hollywood, CA and was mixed by Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal / ex-Morbid Angel) at Mana Sound in Florida.

Like all past Lizzy Borden recordings, 'Appointment with Death' is a conceptual piece; this concept is centered around the theme of, as the title implies, Death.

"Oddly enough, writing eleven songs about death was no easy task for me; lyrically being graphic or grotesque would have been too easy, and being overly morbid would bring nothing new to the concept. I wrote this just like I have all of the other LB recordings, as a play or a movie. There is a beginning, middle and an end with the lead character taking us on a journey. Death is all around us, lurking, waiting to pounce, striking fear and antagonizing the living in many different ways, I tried to explore some of those ways in the most poetic way that I know how" commented Lizzy.

The music on 'Appointment with Death' was composed by Lizzy, Ira Black, Marten Andersson and Joey Scott.

'Appointment with Death' is epic, heavy, dark and melodic, everything a traditional Lizzy Borden recording should be and more. With new guitarist Ira Black along with Marten Andersson on bass and co-founder Joey Scott on the drums, the Lizzy Borden sound has evolved into a multi-dimensional ever-lasting-gobstopper working just as well in an ipod as it has always done on stage.

"These musicians are more then just special guests, they all, each in their own original way helped to create this work of fiction and bring 'Appointment with Death' to life." - Lizzy

All who performed on 'Appointment with Death':
Lizzy Borden
Joey Scott (Lizzy Borden)
Marten Andersson (Lizzy Borden / George Lynch)
Ira Black (Lizzy Borden / Metal Church)
George Lynch (Dokken / Lynch Mob)
Dave Meniketti (Y&T)
Corey Beaulieu (Trivium)
Jonas Hansson (SILVER MOUNTAIN)
Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal)
Michael T. Ross (Angel / Hardline)
Adam Cameron
Zane
Marliese Quance

For the Cover, Lizzy Borden worked with special effects wizard and make-up artist Ralis Kahn. Ralis designed the set and the look of the band based on the theme for 'Appointment with Death'. The cover depicts Lizzy as the angel of Death in the action of collecting 3 souls who have ended their lives in 3 very different ways by their own hands. Famed 'Metal' photographer Alex Solca took well over a 1,000 shots in a two-day marathon, involving extras as well as the band (Lizzy, Joey Scott, Marten Andersson and Ira Black).

Lizzy explains "Because a lot of music is going straight to itunes, we thought we would pay special attention to both the cover and the back cover and fill the inside of the CD booklet with tons of fun shots from this specialized photo shoot. As we all know, very soon there will no longer be an actual CD to have a cool booklet for. Everything will go straight from the studio to your ipod, so we thought we would really go all out on this one"

'Appointment with Death' will be released on October 5th (G|A|S|I) and on October 8th (Europe) via Metal Blade Records.

(source: the official Lizzy Borden website)