BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION "Here Comes The Brides"
by Ozzy Stillbourne

Cover: 7 Vince Neil's out of 10.
It's a cartoon of the band, which naturally makes everyone look a lot cooler than they would be if it was a photo. London is on the left holding a rose and it looks like he's wearing a Michael Jackson "Beat It" jacket, which might be considered cool if it was 1983. At least it's better than how he dresses in real life.

Booklet: 5 John Corabi's out of 10.
Nothing too fancy, just lyrics with blood dripping behind them, simple credits, and some thanks.

Songs: 6 Phil Lewis' out of 10.
I've had these songs for a while since they've been in circulation for a while. At one time, Brides put up all these songs as MP3's on their site, which probably isn't a good idea to do if you eventually want to SELL FUCKING CDs with these songs on them! Good idea for me, bad idea for the band. They're all basically demos yet they sound good enough production wise. For all the hype these guys got, the song quality just isn't here though. It's not horrible but coming from Nikki Sixx and Tracii Guns I was expecting a lot more. It's basically 80s influence hard rock. I know it's easy to point the finger at London since he's the singer, and I'll do just that. If they had a better, more seasoned singer, it might have made a difference. "Shut The Fuck Up," "2x Dead," "Brace Yourself," and "Revolution" are the songs that I can deal with. Yet "Shut The Fuck Up" and "Revolution" are both played out song titles, especially "Revolution." Even the last L.A. Guns' CD had a song called "Revolution." "Life" and "Only Get So Far" I can do without. The rest fall into the background music category. I've heard worse, but I've heard better.

Comments: I'll say this is better than the last Motley Crue CD "New Tattoo" but not as good as the last L.A. Guns' CD "Waking The Dead." Take that however you want.

In a related note, I'd like to talk about the following that's pissing me the fuck off.

Back around August of 2003, we asked Nikki if he wanted to be the first person to do a "Back-4-More" and we'd put it up on our 5th Anniversary. Nikki replied that he didn't have anything to promote so we should wait to their CD came out. Ok, that's fine, we can hang. So the Brides Of Destruction CD comes out and we get word that Nikki wants to do an interview. On March 22nd, 2004, Nikki wrote, YES ID LOVE TO DO..ILL DO IT BY E MAIL(TRACII).......BEEN SPEAKING HIGHLY OF YOU GUYS ALOT.......

NIKKI SIXX

All right, so we send out the questions to Sixx. We don't hear anything for a while and on April 12th, we get this back from Sixx: soory guys..been swamped with last minute tour stuff..reh..press..and family..ill pass for now until i can focus and do it right.....

sludge rules......sixx

Been swamped with press? We're fucking press!! How fucking hard do you have to focus to answer our questions? This isn't the SAT! This is Metal Sludge!

So when you have nothing to promote, you don't want to do it, but when you have something to promote, you don't want to do it because you have no time, yet of course, Sludge Rules! That's basically called, "I'm not going to answer your questions but I'll still kiss your ass at the end so I'm on your good side." That's so fucking Hollywood! "Hey, go fuck yourself but I still love ya!" Typical Nikki. If there is anything we hate, it's saying you want to do an interview with us and then backing out. We don't like sitting around for....5...10 minutes tops, thinking of questions and then not having them answered! We actually asked him interesting questions that I would have liked to know the answers too. And if I wanted to know the answer, I'm sure the Sludgeaholics would have loved to know the answers. Yet how much do you want to bet we'll hear from Nikki again as soon as we can do something for him? So if you see Sixx out on tour, tell him to "focus" and send back his fucking questions!