Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on The Downbeat Podcast, Motionless In White’s Chris Motionless explained the band’s decision to cover Corey Hart’s “Sunglasses At Night” on their new album “Decades” (out July 17). He says it’s something he “always wanted to do.”

Motionless initially joked about wearing sunglasses indoors during the interview:

“We did a cover on our new album coming out of the ‘Sunglasses At Night‘ song. So this is realiastically just my press tour for the cover, like who cares about the album? ‘Sunglasses At Night‘ cover; I gotta play the part.”

He also added:

“[It’s a] full-on cover… With covers, I know that it’s very divided and polarizing whether you stick to the original or do your whole new thing, and this is straight up for me. This is actually the first time I get to talk about it. I’ve been talking about a cover that I wanna do more than anything in the world for, like, 12, 13 years now. I’ve said it, but I’ve never said what the song was, so this is finally the song.

I’ve always wanted to do it. I thought, ‘This song is like… I feel like Motionless should do ‘Sunglasses At Night‘.’ And it started out as just a fun thing to try out doing, and then it just eventually made its way on the album. And it’s very much for me. And if you don’t like it, I don’t give a fuck.”

He continued when asked if it’s heavy:

“We brought the guitars and stuff in, like a little heavier. I mean, it’s heavier than the original, but it’s not like… there’s no breakdown or anything, you know?”

He went on discuss his love of the song:

“I think it’s the ’80s icon song. It’s got all the synths. It’s got the huge hook, the slick ’80s swagger.”

He also confirmed it has synths:

“Everything. All of it, yeah.”

[via The PRP]