The 69 eyes- another quality finnish goth rock band

• The man who was death

  1 Feb 06, 20:39

  Early 1990's Helsinki, Finland. Five guys in Ramones-like black biker leather jackets have started a band called THE 69 EYES.
  
  "WASTING THE DAWN" was The 69 Eyes's first international release on ROADRUNNER RECORDS. In 1999 with its unique concept of Gothic melancholy mixed with hi-energy rock'n'roll roots of the band, the album not only brought some long-waited fresh blood into the Gothic scene but also launched a new term to the media: GOTH'N'ROLL. The album's epic melanGothic TOP 10 hit single "WASTING THE DAWN" paid a tribute to The DOORS' Jim Morrison and even had HIM's Ville Valo posing at a snowy cemetery as Mr. Mojo Risin' on its video. The band is said to be the missing link between The Cult and Type O Negative.
  
  In the spring 2000 the band released a single "GOTHIC GIRL" which changed everything. Months on the Singles TOP 10 and on the Finnish national radio's playlists "GOTHIC GIRL" brought the first gold record to the band. Like this gold-gone taster single the highly anticipated new album "BLESSED BE" was produced by JOHNNY LEE MICHAELS who as "the sixth member" of the band did all the arrangements and handles all keyboards and programming on the album as well. As Johnny Lee Michaels has also been known as a film music composer, the present BLESSED soundscape of The 69 Eyes is somewhere between epic and melanGothic yet with vibes of movies "Sleepy Hollow"-meets-"Matrix" - without forgetting the shadows of "The Crow"...
  
  "BLESSED BE" was released on the same date in September 2000 as The 69 Eyes got their gold records from the first single of it. The album rose straight to number 4 in the Finnish Album Charts and stayed over month in TOP 10 (3 months in TOP 40). The second single from the album was "BRANDON LEE" which also became a huge power-play radio hit and the single stayed 14 weeks in TOP 20. In the "GOTHIC GIRL" video the Crow-meets-Matrix like vision featured black Goth-hop dancers in the rubber nun dresses but "BRANDON LEE" with a mid-nightly dark teenage Romeo and Juliet dream was the video which became one the most requested videos for months in the music channel German VIVA2.
• The man who was death

  1 Feb 06, 20:41

  
  
  Song samples here:
  
  http://www.mp3search.ru/album.html?id=21325&ref=4849
  must listen to gothic girl, the chair, brandon lee
• NeverSayGoodBye

  3 Feb 06, 11:40

  ..... didn't know 69 eyes is 10 over years liow, all the while thought they are a new band. Got quite alot of albums too. But how come cannot download the sample songs?
• The man who was death

  6 Feb 06, 17:53

  Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:

  ..... didn't know 69 eyes is 10 over years liow, all the while thought they are a new band. Got quite alot of albums too. But how come cannot download the sample songs?

  click on the arrow thing
• The man who was death

  9 Feb 06, 14:30

  
  
  some problem with the samples. will try to find samples soon