Mick Mars Thinks MÖTLEY CRÜE Ended When They “Stopped Creating”, Is Proud Of His Debut Solo Album: “It’s all me!”

Mick Mars is exposing the real dirt once and for all and TMD has the scoop first, behind the scenes of the MÖTLEY CRÜE lawsuit. According to the leaked Mars court documents, Mick is calling out his former bandmates as being wannabe rock musicians and “amateur time” Satanist’s who took the CRÜE ‘demonic’ stage persona a little too seriously once drugs overtook the band’s leader Nikki Sixx. Mars contends that the Devil worshipping image of the band, along with usage of employing ‘backing tracks’ during concerts and ‘ghost performers’ brought in on studio albums helped to ruin the Platinum selling Hollywood glam metal act once they achieved massive fame in the eighties.

However, the biggest problem for the 72-year-old guitar legend is that the CRÜE simply ‘stopped creating’, and this is what he feels put a nail in the coffin of the band he named himself and helped to create the most iconic guitar riffs and solos in heavy metal history.

This is why the CRÜE have not been able to release a new studio album in the past 15 years, according to Mars, who is preparing to release his debut solo album on February 23, 2023. The inability to create new music as a band, and instead rely on “ghost performers” and AI technology is proof that Mars is the victim of being “gaslighted”, and it infuriated him so much, he is not going to go down without a fight.

Michael Wagener, the German producer and engineer who worked behind the boards on MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s 1981 debut, “Too Fast For Love”, helmed the debut Mars record and his relationship with Mars stretches even further back.

“I had known him for a long time, and I actually brought him to MÖTLEY,” Mars says. Working with Wagener this time, the guitarist continues, “he had such an understanding of where I wanted to go with the material. And he never said ‘Hey, do this,’ or tried to change my mind or anything like that. He was just really adamant about recording what I wanted to record, and making sure we recorded it right.”

With Mick’s music you aren’t going to get a gimmick. He’s not trying to compete with anyone.

Believe it or not, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx say that MÖTLEY influenced all the other Satanic metal bands that came after them. Well, you don’t have to be very smart to realize it doesn’t get any more delusional than that.

Groundbreaking names like Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper ushered in horror and darker themes into rock music first, paving the way for bands like CRÜE to exist at all.

In fact, Nikki Sixx says he is not a member of the Satanic Church, that it was all just a big gimmick that he was putting on to sell albums. But is there a chance that by surrounding themselves with real hardcore Pagans, and the founder of the American Satanic movement Anton LaVey, who did actually get down with rituals and the occult, Sixx, Lee and Neil could have somehow ‘inadvertently’ become attached by a demonic entity?

As the story goes, Mars himself insisted that the Crue change the name of their biggest song to “Shout At The Devil” after originally giving it the title “Shout With The Devil”, for fear of cursing the band with the attachment of a demonic spirit, believe it or not.

Soon after, Vince Neil would go on to kill drummer Razzle of Hanoi Rocks in a tragic drunk driving crash. Mick Mars was there with Al Bowman the Crue’s limo driver that day when it all went down in Redondo Beach, and they tried to stop Neil from driving his Pantera drunk, but the singer declined a ride in the limousine.

“I’m trying to keep growing,” Mars says. “Because if you stop learning new things, if you stop playing new things, if you close your mind, you’re done. You have to keep moving and creating. Next!”

Finally, Mars goes on to take a dig at his former band, by mocking their usage of “ghost performers” in the studio and AI technology on records, “My feeling has always been, I might gain some fans, I might lose some fans. But what they’re hearing, it’s all me.”

“The Other Side Of Mars” will be released on February 23, 2024. A pre-order is now live in the new merch storefront launched at shop.mickmarsofficial.com. Available configurations include a 180g LP and CD, signed and unsigned. “The Other Side Of Mars” will be released via Mick‘s own label 1313, LLC, in partnership with MRI.