Nikki Sixx is back with an unflinching biography and new album, "The Heroin Diaries." The album hits stores on August 20th and is followed by the book on September 25th.

Nikki Sixx rose to fame when he started  Mötley Crüe with friend Tommy Lee in 1981.  The band went to the top of the charts and dominated rock and roll in the early 80s. Nikki Sixx and Mötley Crüe lived the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle that people could hardly imagine. "The Heroin Diaries" chronicles a year in Nikki's life and tells the story of being in the biggest rock band in the world all the while standing on the brink of destruction with a punishing heroin addiction.  If you like Mötley Crüe and the best-selling book "The Dirt" you will love "The Heroin Diaries" book and the soundtrack.

The accompanying soundtrack written by Nikki Sixx, James Michael and DJ Ashba features 12 tracks, one for each chapter of the book. The album's first single is the track "Life is Beautiful." The track is available for download on The Heroin Diaries Myspace page for a limited time.
 

THE HEROIN DIARIES

Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the cofounder of the most legendary rock band of the eighties—Mötley Crüe—offers an unflinching and utterly gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
Few bands were as influential as Mötley Crüe in making the 1980s the heavy metal decade. Theirs is a cyclonic story of runaway success and its price, blending outrageous record sales and arena headline tours with smashed up cars, jail sentences, models, drugs, breakups, reunions and more breakups.

In this candid memoir, Nikki Sixx—Mötley Crüe’s bassist and main songwriter—recounts the band’s heyday. The Heroin Diaries takes readers along on one of the most breathless and harrowing roller coaster rides in the history of pop music. At its heart lies the author’s nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought him and the band to the edge of losing much more than just their spot on the charts. Serving up snapshots of rock culture at its most manic, this insider’s look at triumph and tragedy is every bit as explosive as the musical odyssey it chronicles. 
Nikki Sixx was born Frank Feranna in San Jose, California, in 1958 and grew up in Seattle with his grandmother. At the age of seventeen, he sold his guitars and took a bus to Los Angeles, where he began hanging out in local clubs and playing in bands. He founded Mötley Crüe in 1981 with friend Tommy Lee. Today he’s a family man with numerous projects in the works, including songwriting for other artists, a movie, a new band, a clothing line, and ongoing work with “The Crüe.” Ian Gittins has written about music and pop culture for The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out, and The Daily Telegraph, among other publications.