SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Frontman Talks About Upcoming Album(s)

E.S. Day of ABORT magazine recently conducted an interview with frontman Mike Muir of the long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

ABORT: [When can we expect to hear a] new SUICIDAL album when and who's producing?

Muir: We haven't done a record in 10 years, but we have done a lot in that time. We have people coming up to us saying, "You know, you guys are doing shows, why don't you put a record out and tour off that?" That's not what SUICIDAL is about. Its not doing it just because you don't think you will get another chance, I want to get out there and prove we are better than we ever were. So going out there the last two years, we have kind of re-baptized the converted, reminding people why they love SUICIDAL, get them on the phone after the show calling up their friends. If you don't have that excitement, there is something wrong. We're getting that excitement out there, where people are really excited about a new record. We're kind of putting out the old stuff, clearing the deck, like with the DVD, we've got a live CD straight from the board from 1995 [with] INFECTIOUS GROOVES [the funkadelic side project of Mike Muir], Robert Trujillo [current METALLICA bassist] on bass and stuff, something straight off the board that you can say, wow, that was 15 years ago. With SUICIDAL, we have two CDs coming out, the one, I call it the Mike Clark [SUICIDAL rhythm guitarist] record, and I call it that because we got Mike into SUICIDAL after working with him and the band NO MERCY he came in on "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow" after 1987's "Join The Army". Half of "How Will I Laugh" was actually songs for NO MERCY. That was another no-brainer, like with Eric. "Why weren't we using this for SUICIDAL?" We re-recorded some of the NO MERCY and "Join The Army" songs with Mike Clark, who isn't on the original recordings. With him, we take it to a further level, that's why I call it the Mike Clark record. And, of course, there is the new SUICIDAL record coming out at the end of the year, which everyone is always asking, does it sound old? Does it sound new? And for me, I think the whole thing with doing a record is ultimately having people know it's SUICIDAL. SUICIDAL in a sense that its different than what other people are doing. Some people wont like it because of that, but ultimately, I think, 15 years from now people will still be listening to it, and saying, "Wow, that was a really fucking crazy record."

Read more from ABORT magazine.

Fontana Distribution has announced "Live At The Olympic Auditorium", SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' first-ever DVD release. The DVD will street January 26, 2010 via the band's own imprint, Suicidal Records. The approximately 80-minute DVD features 16 tracks, including ST classics "Institutionalized", "War Inside My Head" and "Possessed To Skate" and captures the band in their most natural environment: onstage, uncensored and ready to tear you to shreds.

The track listing is as follows:

01. Intro
02. I Shot Reagan
03. War Inside My Head
04. Subliminal
05. Ain't Gonna Take It
06. Suicidal Failure
07. We Are Family
08. Possessed To Skate
09. I Saw Your Mommy
10. Waking The Dead
11. Show Some Love...Tear It Down!
12. Cyco Vision
13. Two-Sided Politics
14. Won't Fall In Love Today
15. Institutionalized
16. Pledge Your Allegiance

Professionally filmed video footage of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' December 19, 2009 performance at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California as part of the Affliction $5.00 Christmas Concert can be viewed below.