Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes have shared a new single and video for “Cheyenna” off their new album due this September.
“When I heard the demo of the song, I had the chorus for ‘Cheyenna’ immediately in my mind,” singer Jyrki 69 explain in a press release received by Blabbermouth. “It was like a wind whispering or a canyon echoing her name from the past. Who was she? A Native American princess? As I Googled the name, it turned out that a lot of American girls under that name have gone missing. A female ghost rider story was born! Cheyenna is freedom’s child — forever.”
The band recently announced West End as the title of their next album that will be released on Friday, the 13th of September via Nuclear Blast. This 12th full-length record, featuring top notch guest vocalists such as Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth, Wednesday 13 and Beastö Blancö’s Calico Cooper, consists of 11 up-tempo rock anthems full of heaviness, black memento mori moments and dark humour and sees the band dancing in the ruins of our world:
“The title West End evokes a dark image – when something dies, something new comes up and we all have to change in order to stay alive”, singer Jyrki 69 explains. “I feel like this planet is on some turning point. The end of the western world is near and the question is: What is happening when the west ends..? The title has multiple meanings for us… but be assured it has definitely nothing to do with The Pet Shop Boys or London…”
The 69 Eyes previously gave homage to the vampire genre with their hit single “Lost Boys” off their album Devils.