26.08.2024
Bryan Adams has released a music video for “War Machine,” one of two tracks he co-wrote for the classic KISS album “Creatures Of The Night” and which will be featured on his new double A-side single.
As we previously reported, Bryan Adams has announced a special release for his brand new independent label Bad Records. To mark the launch of the new label, Adams is revisiting two songs he co-wrote with Gene Simmons and Jim Vallance for the classic 1982 KISS album “Creatures Of The Night.”
He announced that he will be releasing a special double A-side single featuring the two songs “War Machine” and “Rock And Roll Hell” through his new independent label Bad Records. Available for pre-order now as a limited edition double A-side 7″ single, available exclusively through Bryan’s webstore (release date August 30, 2024).
Bryan said: “To commemorate the first single on Bad Records, here are two songs I co-wrote as a 22-year-old, struggling songwriter. I got a call out of the blue from producer Michael James Jackson asking me if I wanted to write for Kiss, which I happily did. These are some of the songs that came out of that, which I co-wrote with Gene Simmons and Jim Vallance.
“When we were sitting down with the band, Gene played me this amazing bass riff that ended up being the backbone of ‘War Machine.’ I was trying to think of a theme that would possibly fit the riff and came up with the title. Since the other song we had written was about hell, war was the obvious theme to fit.
“‘Rock and Roll Hell’ was actually Jim’s song that had come out on Bachman Turner Overdrive a few years earlier, and I suggested we rewrite it for Kiss. It’s unbelievable that these issues still play a role in the real world today, unfortunately, but I’m very grateful to the guys at Kiss for giving me the chance back then.”
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