96 Bitter Beings have announced their CKY tribute album “Return To Hellview“. That outing will be arriving on June 14th through Nuclear Blast and finds the band’s vocalist/guitarist, etc. Deron Miller revisiting tracks from his previous group, CKY. Miller and CKY parted ways back in 2011.
Speaking on revisiting that aspect of his catalog with this new album, Miller commented:
“Revisiting these songs was a blast. I hadn’t heard the original versions in so long but I was able to get a lot of the re-recordings done just from memory. When the recording process got down to covering specific details of all the tracks, that’s when I went back and listened to the original versions.
I love all the songs but there’s always been issues that bothered me about the originals. A lot of my problems with them were arbitrary and not that important…things that I just wanted to fix that most listeners wouldn’t even notice. But there were some things I wanted to add to these songs and some things I wanted to take out. The goal was to challenge myself to redo these classic tracks in a way that they could be heard as remixes instead of re-recordings. I think we succeeded.
I hope a lot of fans will hear this album as remixes of the originals. Not many bands have access to the original masters that are owned by record companies and therefore don’t have the option to remix anything. We’re excited to see the response.”
A re-recorded version of “Flesh Into Gear“, the lead single from CKY‘s 2002 outing “Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild“, is also the first track to meet a release from this effort. Miller commented on tackling that cut:
“‘Flesh Into Gear‘ was a sizeable hit for me and because of that I tended to always put it under a microscope. I was never fully happy with the original’s mix. I’m finally 100% happy with it. This whole process is the result of a nutty perfectionist trying to chase that feeling of total satisfaction. I achieved it. Basically, I’m saying I won’t be doing this again 20 years from now.”
“Return To Hellview” track listing:
01 – “Flesh Into Gear”
02 – “Sink Into The Underground”
03 – “Shock And Terror”
04 – “Inhuman Creation Station”
05 – “Suddenly Tragic”
06 – “The Way You Lived”
07 – “Dressed In Decay”
08 – “Tripled Manic State”
09 – “Shippensburg”
You can pre-save the outing now via bfan.link/return-to-hellview.
