Nikki Sixx is working on new music.
The MÖTLEY CRÜE and SIXX:A.M. bassist, who has spent most of the last few months in his new home in Wyoming, took to his Twitter on Tuesday (May 18) to write: “Back in Los Angeles to record a few new tracks, drop something new this week and finish my book.”
CRÜE hasn’t released any new music since putting out four new songs on the soundtrack to the band’s 2019 biopic “The Dirt”. “The Dirt Soundtrack” included the single “The Dirt (Est. 1981) (feat. Machine Gun Kelly)” and CRÜE‘s unlikely cover of Madonna‘s “Like A Virgin”.
Sixx‘s last book, “This Is Gonna Hurt: Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx”, came out in 2011 via William Morrow. A tribute to Sixx‘s institutionalized sister, the book explored what true beauty is and embraced our own power around that. Written entirely by Nikki with no ghostwriter, the book was part journal, part memoir, part social commentary and featured his original photography.
“This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx” was the follow-up to Sixx‘s 2007 New York Times bestseller “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star”.
“The Heroin Diaries” was supposedly taken from actual journals Sixx kept in the late 1980s while in the grip of a near-fatal heroin addiction, was originally released in September 2007 via MTV Pocketbooks/Simon & Schuster and debuted at No. 7 on the New York Times Book Review non-fiction best-seller list.
When “The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star” was published, it was accompanied by a soundtrack by Sixx’s side-project SIXX:A.M. Titled “The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack”, it featured collaborations with vocalist James Michael and former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist DJ Ashba.
Back in Los Angeles to record a few new tracks, drop something new this week and finish my book.
— ? (@NikkiSixx) May 18, 2021
