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Lizzy Borden
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Lizzy Borden (left) & drummer Joey Scott hanging at the Maiden / Halford concert |
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By Jym Harris
BALLBUSTER:
The new album Deal With The Devil is out on Metal Blade. How did You get hooked back up with them, and Did you ever consider signing to another label?
LIZZY:
metal blade kept asking me to all through the 90’s but I had to wait until I was ready to put up one hundred percent, so it took until the middle of 98’ before I felt I could do this whole thing again. I never considered another label we never shopped to anywhere else.
BB:
Todd MacFarlane did the cover art and the multimedia portion of the Album. How did that come about?
LIZZY:
my producer Elliot Solomon asked me what I was going to do for the cover I told him I wanted this guy Todd mcfarlane to do it. It just so happened that Elliot also works for a movie co. and Todd was working on a film with Jodie foster that his co. was releasing so I told him to ask Todd if he would do it, he said yes. I had 4 or 5 meetings with him and sent him pictures and this was his interpretation of lizzy’s deal with the devil.
BB:
Will there be any singles or videos released from the new CD?
LIZZY:
I don’t think that metalblade releases singles anymore do to the lack of metal radio but we do hope to shoot a couple of videos for the record.
BB:
What exactly are the 2 cover songs on the album?
LIZZY:
this ain’t the summer of love by blue oyster cult and generation landslide by Alice cooper.
BB:
With all the great photos on the Metal Blade site, why aren’t there Any in the booklet?
LIZZY:
we had to race just to get the record out before the end of the year so we really had very little time to get everything together, so instead of just throwing any old pictures in there we decided to go with no shots.
BB:
Will the import versions of the CD differ from the U.S. pressing (Bonus tracks, etc.)?
LIZZY:
I think for Japan they will add the song (we’ll burn the sky) it’s an old scorpions song that we did at the beginning of this record.
BB:
Most of the songs sound very traditional. Over what time period was The material written?
LIZZY:
well most of it was written the few months leading up to the recording but there we’re two songs that I wrote in the 80’s (lovin’ you is murder) and (we only come out at night.) I wrote (There will be blood tonight) during pre-production for this record so it’s the freshest blood.
BB:
Did you ever consider audition for another band (like Priest or Maiden) when they were looking for replacement Singers?
LIZZY:
well Judas priest is my favorite metal band but those shoes are a little too big to fill. But at that time if they would have asked me I might have given it a try.
BB:
When I interviewed you several months ago, you said you planned on A World tour. I know you've done some Festivals overseas, but what's on the itinerary now?
LIZZY:
we’re planning on a full European tour and we are working on booking the states right now, we hope to announce dates soon.
BB:
Currently, what songs would a Lizzy Borden live set consist of?
LIZZY:
we are working on the new show right now, it’s going to be based on the deal with the devil theme but we are going to incorporate songs from each and all of the lizzy Borden records, as we’ll as four or five songs from the new one.
BB:
Anything you'd like to add?
LIZZY:
this is just the beginning for us. We are releasing the entire back catalog and there will be new lizzy records and tours to come. We have just begun!
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