Warrant Readies New Album

This is a pleasant surprise! Warrant will release Louder Harder Faster on May 12. The new album was produced by Jeff Pilson. I didn't know Warrant was working on new music so this will be something to look forward to for sure.

Here's the track listing:

01. Louder Harder Faster
02. Devil Dancer
03. Perfect
04. Only Broken Heart
05. U In My Life
06. Music Man
07. Faded
08. New Rebellion
09. Big Sandy
10. Choose Your Fate
11. Let It Go
12. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink (bonus track available on CD only)

Comments

[Him]

WASP released a song with this name years ago. But the "louder" was just implied.

The game is afoot . . .a long game, I guess.

[Bkall]

Hope this is as solid as Rockaholic was!

[fletch]

Well this is for the PMRC. They can schuck me suck me eat me raw...harder faster

[Jakki Steal]

This is lame as hell...
Why not just release a compilation of the plethora of unreleased Warrant songs that are bouncing around on youtube & shit w/Jani ( Fucking) Lane on vocals.

So many fucking amazing songs just floating around & never officially released.
Fucking pathetic!

[Darktown]

I do kind of like the Merle Haggard tune...........this band left me forever after Jani (And not knowing the whole, REAL story, the way the band treated him after he passed, pissed me off and was shameful.)

[Darktown]

RE: Jakki, got to agree 100% with you, I personally thought Jani was such a talented songwriter, one of the best.

[Metalboy!]

You mean, "Warrant Readies New Album I'm Ready To NEVER Listen To"!

I'm with Jakki and Darktown... The band was over when Jani left. They SHOULD release the old stuff with Jani, but the NEVER will, unfortunately

p.s. Hey, Darktown... You're right about the way the band disrespected Jani when he died. But they also abused him the same way when he was alive, treating him like a pee-on employee. I witnessed it with my own two eyes one night at Limelight in NYC back in 1990. I've told the story many times on here...

I was dating Joey Allen's cousin at the time and after the show, we were having drinks with him at the bar when Jani saunters up to us, all glammed out in his shinyl vinyl patent leather motorcycle suit he was still wearing from the performance...

And Joey just completely ignores him. He kept trying to join the conversation and I was acknowledging him but Joey acted like he wasn't even there, not even making eye contact with him. Eventually, Jani gave up and wandered off. I thought it was weird at the time and then, when he died, it all became clear once the stories came out about what horse's as*es those guys are.

[Darktown]

MB : Yeh I guess you'd have to live it to understand it, from the outside looking in I'll never understand it. I guess, ego and I'm sure money plays a huge part in all of it (Haha, throw in Lawyers / business managers?? too??)

[Shawn]

To Jump on the bandwagon here MB - I agree with you Jakki, and Darktown. Jani was the song writer with amazing talent and if I recall the word was that the guitar bozo'z in Warrant had a hard time in the studio and Mike Slamer? recorded most of the Solo's?

[Rita]

I bet they were jealous of Janie's song writing abilities and looks.

They were nothing before Jani. And they are nothing after Jani too.

RIP Jani.

[Mike]

I get that these guys need to earn a living, and go out on tour as Warrant, but releasing a new album of original material when the band's sole somgwriter has passed is tasteless, tactless and completely unwarranted.

If they have new music that they are genuinely excited about, they should take a cue from Black Star Riders and choose a new band name.

[Him]

Hmmm . . . I am conflicted here. Sure, Lane was a solid writer. And, sure, he was the face of the band when they hit it big.

But does his history of demons have any bearing on how his band mates might treat him? Is his situation any different from Great White's (and there is that odd connection there too), save that Russell survived and Lane didn't?

What I am saying is, I can understand a band getting tired of having a talented member of the band crap away his talent and their livelihoods. Getting to the point where sadness and concern atrophy into disinterest and disgust.

Not saying that is the right thing either. Just saying that Lane's passing typifies what happens to a lot of great musicians . . . who lived not-so-great lives behind the scenes. And the wreckage they leave behind impacts a lot of different people.

Don't begrudge Warrant for keeping on keeping on. They don't seem to have reached "Banali" stage yet. So you listen or you don't, I suppose.

I always found it odd how Lane (and even Dubrow) got beatified whereas others don't get the same "pass" he (they) did. And I think it does have something to do with them dying: it traps them in loving amber. Which is both understandable and curious.

Just some random ideas. Nothing more.