Metal Anarchy

Mick Mars (ex-Mötley Crüe) will be releasing his new solo album, “The Other Side Of Mars,” on February 23 and it appears more new music is already in the works. The guitarist recently told WBAB that he currently has “four really solid, different ideas” for his next record.

Mars said the following:

“Honestly, I don’t really get music out of my head. I spend a lot of time down here [in my studio]. Already for a follow-up album, I have four really solid, different ideas from ‘The Other Side Of Mars’ — again, for the diversity kind of a thing. But I’ll tell you, the songs that I’ve got so far are massively thick… It hits hard, is a better word for it. I mean, it comes in and … your face turns into butter.

I had [KORN drummer] Ray Luzier [who guested on ‘The Other Side Of Mars’] over here [at my home studio in Nashville] the other day, and I played it for him. He lives very close to me — he lives just down the street — and he’s, like, devastated. He’s going, ‘Wow.’ So I’m going. like, ‘Ah, good.’ So there’s that that I have going on. And they’re in the rough stages — you know how it works. And that’s it. Yeah, I’m working on a follow-up. Absolutely.”

He also added that he plans to take things to “another level”:

“It has to be that way. I’m not a youngster. And I’m not a depressed dark guy or nothing like that. But when you start getting older, you start going, like, ‘I don’t wanna do that again. Let’s try this or move up or go a different level,’ instead of putting the same repetitious kind of thing, which is [what you sometimes do when you are stuck in an] album-tour,-album tour [cycle]. And a lot of times, when that does happen, you find yourself kind of repeating yourself, and it gets to be pretty much samey after a while. So I’m fortunate enough to be old — I made it to here — but to be able to change my music, my next step. I don’t wanna stay on this level. I have to take it up a notch every time. And if I get to do a third [album], it’ll be a notch again, of course.”

[via Blabbermouth]