L.A. Guns - Checkered PastLong running hard rockers L. A. Guns have announced the release of their new studio album, "Checkered Past". Written and recorded while the world was still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic, the new studio album sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, and company continuing with the darker lyrical tone of the preceding studio albums, "The Devil You Know" and "The Missing Peace", while incorporating their classic rock influences into the mix. Heavier

the story returns to it's onset: now less rapturous

as well as a composed and performed album

bassist Shane Dubose

wrote most of the material on Blue Skies

when the song of the violin is heard from the puszta

The album features production from Timbaland on 3 tracks ("Nite-Runner" ft

he achieves a gripping interpretation of this monumental work

which specialises in eighteenth-century sacred repertory and has already recorded works by Galuppi

Though the band didn't trouble the charts again after 1981

From it's opening spectral assault to it's achingly poignant conclusion - as well as a witty depiction of afterlife bureaucracy in the vein of Beetlejuice and A Matter of Life and Death - A Ghost Waits has shocked and surprised audiences around the world

Nigel Patrick

Dear is 12 songs strong