The 69 Eyes - Universal Monsters (2016)

Recorded with producer Johnny Lee Michaels at his Helsinki-based Bat Cave Studios, the band's 11th release is another haunting selection of Finnish goth hymns none more so than broodingly melodic first single 'Jet Fighter Plane'. Last year the band released 'The Best Of Helsinki Vampires' a comprehensive best-of collection, covering their entire quarter century history. Looking back on such a vast legacy, THE 69 EYES have always managed to stay alive as a band, reinventing their distinct blend of Goth'n'Roll and keeping the same line-up ever since 1992, when Jussi69 replaced original drummer Lotto. The second peak of the Goth era in the late 90s/early 2000s saw the five-piece deliver some of it's most acclaimed longplayers, 'Wasting The Dawn' (1999), 'Blessed Be' (2000) and 'Paris Kills' (2002).