Glam rock legends Slaughter have been inactive in terms of releasing new music for the last 20 years. The last album they released was in 1999 titled Back To Reality which wasn’t received well by the fans as well as the critics. Such has been a case with many glam rock bands. They had wonderful glorious early days and after a couple of albums, the bands released albums that didn’t connect with the fans leading to drop in interest and lack of touring opportunities. This has been the case with Slaughter. The debut album titled ‘Stick It To Ya’ ensured the band reaches the stardom with instant classics such as “Up All Night”, “Spend My Life” & more. The lack of interest from the fans has lead to the band rethink about releasing new music.
In a new interview with Sally Steele of Vegas Rocks!, SLAUGHTER frontman Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum talked about the band.
When asked about the plan to release any new material, they said:
Mark: “It really is about art for making art more than it is really a money-making situation. Playing music live is what we love to do. And even if I had some new music and brought it out here with the band, people really don’t care. They still wanna hear the hits that they know. It’s more of ‘remember when.’ And we’re not running away from that — we know where we came from, and we also know that people want to hear those hits.”
Dana: “If you saw the guys from THE BEATLES playing, or if you saw… LED ZEPPELIN finally does this reunion, everybody in their mind has the setlist: ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘Stairway To Heaven’, ‘Heartbreaker’. They already made it up in their mind. They wanna hear it, because these are the ones they love. Instead of running away, it’s, like, why does it suck if people loved what you did, no matter what group you are? Every group out there has songs that people loved that you did. Then do them. And don’t run away from them.”
Mark further added:
“And we’re not running away. Look, we only get about an hour to play anyway. And we still have to leave a couple of our hits off because there’s not enough time. But still, we try to entertain and try to make it as energetic as possible. It’s one thing about this band is we never lost that side of it. We still have a love to go out there and kick some a*s, for sure.”
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I think there’s many bands were born for one purpose..have their hey day,enjoy the moment and disappear,and many are careers bands like AC/DC Iron Maiden etc..sad but have to deal with..
Glam rock legends?? That’s a stretch seeing that they had one hit album. They were introduced in an over saturated market. They like many of the time had a shelf life and it expired. Bowie, T Rex, Sweet, Slade etc. they are glam rock legends.
No, I think we all would love to hear a never released songs from the Zeppelin, unlike Slaughter.
Why have you got a direct quote in the headline where Mark talks about himself as “his”? It either should be “my band” or there should be no quotation marks.
SLAUGHTER Forever.
Its simple..if you constructed your legacy on 1 album that is what you get…bands that really put the effort of going a little further (whiteshake, der leppard, tesla) kept bringing something new to the table mantaining the fans entertained and wanting for more. Im not saying those new albums became all hits but the fans had a NEW toy to play with cementing those bands legacies. Slaughter just stop its career, period…you cannot blame the fans nor the industry….David Coverdale has been reinventing himself for the past 20 years and, even though we love the classics its always refreshing to hear a newer tune everytime.
I would love to hear a new Slaughter song hell yea but I love to go to your shows ad hear your Rockin classics that I remember
True in a live show most want to hear the stuff they know but as for new albums if your a fan you should want to hear more. I guess the thing with many glam and hard rock bands is we like many flavors and we easily move on to the next band. I think some of these older bands either need to rebrand themselves (new band name so they can experiment more) or take their sound to a new level (bring in some horns or orchestra or big acoustic sound or something that will get our attention.) You can see Savatage was able to move on. I think more bands should of tried to make their sound bigger and better like they did. It don’t have to be orchestra but I horn section or big band sound or something. Give the music some life at least on a few songs. But all this doing music on your computer stuff has to stop. Need to get some live energy back in thess bands.