NewsMay 4, 2024 2:06 PM ET4,326 views

96 Bitter Beings revisit classic CKY songs on 'Return To Hellview', release "Flesh Into Gear" single

96 Bitter Beings

Los Angeles trio 96 Bitter Beings are set to return with a new record titled Return To Hellview, featuring re-recorded CKY tracks across guitarist Deron Miller's tenure. 

The release, scheduled for June 14th via Nuclear Blast, pays homage to the hostile town of Hellview, first mentioned in CKY's debut track "96 Bitter Beings." Pre-save links are HERE.

The band recently unveiled "Flesh Into Gear", the first re-recorded single from the album.

The album reinterprets original CKY songs, offering a new angle on well-known tracks. The re-recording process, according to Deron Miller, aimed to refine songs without straying too far from their initial essence. 

On the upcoming release, Miller says:

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.

Return To Hellview tracklisting:

  1. Flesh into Gear
  2. Sink into the Underground
  3. Shock and Terror
  4. Inhuman Creation Station
  5. Suddenly Tragic
  6. The Way You Lived
  7. Dressed in Decay
  8. Tripled Manic State
  9. Shippensburg



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