W.A.S.P. will be returning with a new studio album entitled Golgotha next year, one that founder and frontman Blackie Lawless says will sound similar to 2009’s Babylon and 2007’s Dominator.
“We’re about three weeks away from finishing the next one, so it will be out next year and it will be called Golgotha,” Lawless announced at a Sweden Rock Festival press conference. “Golgotha is Hebrew for place of the skull and it’s the hill where Christ was crucified. It’s interesting when you see a lot of bands going around using Satanic images, or images of death and things like that, and I’m thinking all they need to do is look at the source cause it’s right there. If you want death, there’s enough to go around there.”
As for what fans can expect musically from Golgotha, Lawless says, “It sounds… probably more similar to the last two that we’ve done. We’ve been working on this thing for four years now, and I don’t know if you guys heard but I had a little hiccup last year, and that delayed recording for about a year. I broke my leg — that too was an interesting trip (laughs). There’s one thing I learned when I was doing The Crimson Idol. If you make a record over too long of periods of time you have to be very, very careful because the record you start out making is not the record you end up finishing because you’ve changed so much as a person over a three or four year period. You’ve got to be very careful to hold onto that vision. But from what I’m hearing so far, and it’s not completely mixed yet, but it has definite overtones of the last two records.”
Lawless also addressed his decision to stop playing the W.A.S.P. classic Animal (Fucks Like A Beast by saying, “”I look at it like this. I’m a representative of the most high God, and I have to be very careful about the things I say and do. I’m gonna answer one day for the things that I’ve done and I wanna make sure that when I do, that my slate is clean. But equally as important as that, I think, is I’ve been given an opportunity to stand in front of people and you’re either gonna say something positive or you’re gonna say something mindless –there is no in between. You’re either one or the other. And I’m just trying my best, and I’m not saying that I’m doing it all the time, but I’m trying my best to say something that I think could help somebody’s life.”
Watch video from Blackie’s Sweden Rock Festival press conference below.
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Fact is its their most popular song among the masses just because the title and cover of the single back in the day were controversial… They are a great band (even though only Blackie remains) and I’ve loved just about everything they’ve done…many better songs than Animal. Saw in 2010 for Babylon tour and they were unbelievable. The only thing I say is that when you are an artist, growing in different paths keeps it interesting unless you go completely off-track like say Richie Blackmore, but I don’t like when they shun the past…that is who they were at that moment in time,so I don’t care about him not playing the song, but I think he should not be so ready to forget some great music…So many songs he wrote would be more controversial than Animal, but they don’t have the title, or image surrounding that one song and he hasn’t stopped playing those..
Always great to hear from Blackie Lawless cannot wait for the next album! Hope there can be some American dates on the next Tour! I really liked the stories he told about his vocal cord problem and about that Mountain Lion.
Why is his religion such a big deal? In my opinion it takes more balls to stand up for Christianity than for him to keep doing the old shock rock shtick. Besides, hes a 60 year old man! Could he really pull of the raw raw meat and flaming codpieces like he used to? I’m glad he’s trying not to make a fool of himself instead of rehashing the same old tricks as an old fart like Marilyn manson. Plus the last 2 WASP albums were awesome and I look forward to hearing his new music. Hopefully the album will be officially released in the u.s. so its not a pain in the ass to get the thing.
…and of course:
BLACKIE LAWLESS COMES UP TO ME ONE DAY WHEN I’M WALKING DOWN THE STREET MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS
HE LOOKS ME UP HE LOOKS ME DOWN AND SAYS WHAT BE THIS AND WHAT BE THAT AND DO YOU KNOW CHRIST IS THE WAY
I KINDA LAUGH BUT NO TOO HARD ‘CAUSE HE’S STILL 7 FEET TALL AND SAY I GOT PICTURES OF NAKED LADIES LYING ON THE BED……..
I’ve gotta stop reading your stuff while at work.
Whatever drives him is his own business and he has the right to believe whatever he wants. I’m kind of torn though because it would be better to tour and make albums under his own name since he isn’t going to play certain wasp hits (and is the only original member). However, I also think that since Wasp has always been his band that he just Wants to stick with it so I guess it’s ok. As long as the music is good, I guess it doesn’t matter in the end.