Geschrieben von Donnerstag, 10 Juni 2021 16:57

MASTIFF: Neue Single "Endless"

Die Blackend-Sludge-Band MASTIFF veröffentlicht ihre neue Single "Endless" samt Video. Das Album "Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth", das die Band in fünf Studiotagen eingespielt hat, erscheint am 10. September.

Zum Song "Endless" sagt die Band: 

“It still feels like some kind of fever-dream that we’re working with eOne on our new record. Collectively, some of our favorite bands of all time have been part of this label, so it’s absolutely mind-blowing that we might be spoken of in the same breath as them. Since conversations first began with the team, they’ve been so supportive and enthusiastic about our grotty little band and the album we’ve made. We felt pretty sure that we’d made something quite special this time around and knowing that people with long and illustrious histories in the metal industry felt the same way - not to mention people who’ve worked with some of the genre’s biggest and best - it’s a pretty spectacular vote of confidence for five miserable miscreants from Hull.

‘Endless’ is one of the earlier songs we wrote for the new record. It feels in a way like a microcosm of the whole album, in that it’s all over the place sonically yet somehow hangs together coherently. It goes from this shockingly anthemic -- if not quite melodic -- blackened opening, through a sinister chuggy bridge, and then ends in a chaotic, ‘90s-Converge-breakdown. Lyrically, it’s a bit of a meditation on the helplessness that comes when a human being becomes an emotional bargaining chip in a broken-down relationship. Typical jolly MASTIFF fare, really. We’re so disgustingly happy with how the video turned out too. Our old mate and Hull native Stew Baxter helped us put together a grimy, raw promo that feels in part a direct homage to some of the early-‘00s metalcore videos that inspired us so much back in the day, and part like a CCTV feed catching a crime against music on tape.”

Helge

Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal: immer gerne. Kann ich den ganzen Tag hören. Die störrische Art, unpolitisch sein zu wollen, nervt mich aber an der Metalszene – dabei ist doch alles politisch, auch Schweigen. Für Musik mit Haltung zieht es mich immer wieder zum Punk, vor allem zu melodischem US-Punk und Riot-Grrrl-Sound. Gleichzeitig habe ich einen sweet spot für 80er-Hair-Metal und für vieles, was mich in den 90ern musikalisch sozialisiert hat.

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