Ghøstkid have shared a new song titled “I Destroyed You.” This track is from their new album, “Follow The White Rabbit,” which will be released on October 2.
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Comeback Kid Premiere “Chosen Hell” Music Video
Comeback Kid have shared an official music video for the title track of their new album “Chosen Hell.” That effort will be released on November 6. Vocalist Andrew Neufeld commented:
“The theme of the title track ‘Chosen Hell’ on our new album touches on morality and ethics. Something as simple as right or wrong. Good or evil. Healthy or unhealthy, and our ability to make a choice. Often, we are incapable of choosing the right thing, and we find ourselves in situations that we know hold us back, therefore affecting our own well being. The outcome is what we make of it.”
“Chosen Hell” Track Listing:
01. “Target on My Back”
02. “Vindication”
03. “Shedding Season” (feat. Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox)
04. “Lost and Found”
05. “Underneath the Pressure”
06. “Chosen Hell”
07. “Yesterday’s Gone” (feat. Brendan Garrone of Incendiary)
08. “Tunnel Vision”
09. “Becoming”
10. “Heartland Elegy”
11. “Too Late”Tour Dates:
11/07 Oklahoma City, OK – Flyover Fest
With Dead Heat, Fear Of Loss, and Slow Pulse:
11/08 Dallas, TX – Puzzles Deep Ellum
11/09 Houston, TX – Secret Group
11/10 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
11/11 Austin, TX – Come And Take It LiveWith Defeater, Dead Heat, and Barrio Slam:
11/13 Las Vegas, NV – American Legion Post 8
11/14 San Diego, CA – Corazon Del Barrio
11/15 Los Angeles, CA – 1720
11/16 Berkeley, CA – CornerstoneWith The Warriors, Dead Heat, and Barrio Slam:
11/18 Portland, OR @ Dante’s
11/19 Tacoma, WA – Real ArtWith The Warriors, Dead Heat, and Time x Heist:
11/20 Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club
11/22 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music HallWith The Warriors, Dead Heat, and Barrio Slam:
11/23 Denver, CO – HQ
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SOiL’s New Album Is “Completely Done”
During an interview with Dales Rock Interviews, SOiL’s Tim King offered an update on the band’s new album. He says the effort is “completely done.”
King said the following:
“We wrote an entire new release last year. We didn’t do any touring last year. We were in the writing mode in the studio. We went back and forth into the studio into Nashville, and we’ve got a new release completely done. We’re gonna be announcing it very soon. [We] signed a new record deal. We have a new manager with Shelter Music Group over there. And we just revived everything SOIL. Brand new release, brand new record label, brand new management, and we’re gonna release the first single this year, and then the [full-length] release will come out probably January of 2027.”
He continued when asked about the lengthy wait:
“With a band like ours, we’ve got a lot of hits, we’ve got a lot of history, and for older bands like us that have had a legacy, it gets… I, at least, find it really monotonous and boring when bands just keep releasing material that sounds the same or subpar or they feel like they just need to release it to appease the fans or to go out on tour with. And with SOIL, we released an amazing record with the return of [SOIL singer] Ryan [McCombs] back in 2013, which was ‘Whole’. And it really brought the band back to form. It sounded like the old days of SOIL. It was a great record to reintroduce and reinvigorate the band. And since then we’ve done a ton of touring. But we said to ourselves, ‘If we’re gonna do a follow-up, we either have to write songs that are better than the ‘Scars’ [2001] record,’ which is our biggest record, ‘and we need at least one hit or more that are better than the song ‘Halo’, or at least as good.’ And we just kept writing and writing and just weren’t feeling it. And time went by and more touring went on, and things got pushed aside, and finally we said, ‘We’re taking an entire year off, and we’re going to buckle down and make this happen.’ And that’s what we did.”
He went on to discuss the musical direction:
“It’s amazing stuff. I mean, I say that with absolutely no ego. And it’s gonna appease the old SOIL fans, it’s gonna appease new SOIL fans. It’s got a great classic old SOIL sound, but with a lot of modern elements incorporated into it, and it’s just undeniable. We finally have a piece of material, a body of material that we feel is going to blow this band back into the the good graces with a new record. The fanbase has been eager to get some new material, and we’re gonna give it to them.”
He also discussed the production process:
“We went in with a great production team. We spent a lot of time in Nashville recording all this stuff. Like I said, we basically retooled the entire band — new label, new management, new producers, new music, new everything. So, 2027 is gonna be a very exciting time for the band.
I wish I could say more, but we’re still waiting for announcements to come out and having meetings on when to announce and when to launch and stuff like that. So, it will be all coming in due time, but it’s all completed, so there’s no, ‘Oh, SOIL’s going in the studio or anything like that.’ It’s completely finished, so it’s ready to go. So we’re just picking out the right time to launch and all that good stuff.”
He also added the following when asked if it easy to write new music nowadays:
“Back in the day, and all the way leading up to the ‘Whole’ record, we had always written in a rehearsal room together — bass, drums, guitars, throwing riffs at each other, putting things together, talking about it, drinking some beers, and then we’d send it off to Ryan. He’d come back with some vocal ideas, some changes. We’d make that, then Ryan would come to the rehearsal and sing it, and we’d hear what it was like, and we’d demo it out and stuff. So that was the way we always wrote things — old school. And we found that that really worked well because right in that moment of time, you could alter things, and you got that vibe, and you’re playing off of each other, and you’re going back and forth. And I think the reason it took us so long to get things together is in the age of computers, and when COVID hit and all that, everything started going by FaceTime or sending files back and forth, and it’s just so stale. It’s so… I don’t know how to put it. It’s just so — I guess you could say, yeah, ‘stale’ is the best word. There’s really no vibe there. If I send a riff to the guys, or Adam [Zadel, SOIL guitarist] sends some ideas put to a drum machine, or the drummer [T.J. Taylor] gets a drum beat and we put some stuff to it, and we’re just sending it around, you’re not really getting that interaction. So we were very uninspired for many years because there really wasn’t that outlet to all get together. Me and Adam live in Chicago, our drummer’s in Kentucky, Ryan’s in the U.K. Getting together to practice for a tour was hard enough, let alone to start writing sessions. So that’s why we decided to buckle down and take that year off and really hone in and make sure that we did it the way that we felt most comfortable with. So that’s the way we like to write in this band. Other people might be able to send each other computer files and stuff, but it’s just not the way we operate. We need to be in there with each other and vibing off of each other and having the producer sit there and help us with things and stuff. So that’s the way we did it this time.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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Ghost’s Tobias Forge: “I’m Not Gonna Just Go Back To Make An Album Or Force Myself To Make An Album For No Reason”
During an interview with Kerrang!, Ghost’s Tobias Forge opened up about the band’s hiatus. The singer says he is “not gonna just go back to make an album or force [himself] to make an album for no reason.”
Forge said the following when asked about his decision to take a hiatus following the “Skeletour”:
“There’s a lot of people depending on you, let alone all these people buying tickets. For most of my career, I’ve been very triggered by that, in a positive way. But now, with a lack of a clear direction of where to go, I don’t want to have that responsibility on my shoulder. I can carry that when I’m there, but when I’m not there, it’s too tiresome.”
He went on to say he is “exhausted,” before adding:
“[The ‘Skeletour’ was] pretty much as close as you can get. When you’re done with the big wedding, you’re not gonna get married again immediately after. I don’t want to call it a bookend, but it serves as a great finale. I feel like, ‘If this is it, I’m pretty pleased. This is a fucking great repertoire, great band, they sound phenomenal.’ We managed to do this awesome show most of the nights, and I couldn’t be happier.”
He also discussed his desire to pursue other ventures without being “dictated” by the cyclical nature of recording and touring:
“Everything was great up until the moment when I was sort of eyeing the end of a tour and not knowing for the first time in our career what to do next. And that was kind of the get-the-fuck-out-of-Dodge card, which is: I’m not gonna just go back to make an album or force myself to make an album for no reason. I need to want to make a record. I need to have something to say.
Every other record has been very inspired and there’s been a clear thought, there’s been a purpose. And that was completely generated by my passion to do so — it was never contractual fulfilment or whatever. It was nothing like that. And this time around it was just like, ‘I don’t have an idea.’ I just want to do other things and it doesn’t really mean anything other than that, but it also means that, no, we don’t have anything in the books, and yeah, it’s just a normal hiatus.”
He also confirmed that he is happy right now:
“I am. The big difference is how I’m able to talk to friends. For the last 15 years, I’ll come home [from a Ghost tour] for, like, two weeks, and the first week I’m sick, and the second week, I have to be with my family. I have to take care of people in a proximity level, with the closest ones first.”
He also added that he is able to accept invitations and see friends more often:
“That is important for me. When you’re in your dream-come-true band, it’s all-consuming in terms of time and energy. I’m very happy that I’m able to commit to other things now. I feel great!”
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Sicksense Announce Fall North American Tour
Sicksense have announced fall North American tour. Select shows will find the band opening for artists like Mushroomhead, Fear Factory, Heal The Hurt, Primer 55, 40 Below Summer, and Eyes Set To Kill.
Tour Dates:
11/05 Davenport, IA – Redstone Room
11/08 Toledo, OH – Frankie’s
11/09 Chicago, IL – The WC Social ClubWith Mushroomhead and Fear Factory:
11/10 Sauget, IL – Pop’s
11/11 Nashville, TN – The Basement EastWith Heal The Hurt:
11/12 Greenville, SC – The Radio Room
With Primer 55:
11/13 Raleigh, NC – Chapel of Bones
11/15 Richmond, VA – The Canal Club
11/17 Hamden, CT – Space BallroomSicksense:
11/18 Quebec City, QC – L’Anti Bar & Spectacles
11/19 Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
11/20 Ottawa, ON – Dominion Tavern
11/21 Millersville, PA – Phantom Power (feat. 40 Below Summer and Primer 55)
11/22 Lakewood, OH – The Foundry
11/24 Lincoln, NE – Bourbon TheatreWith Eyes Set To Kill:
12/03 Lubbock, TX – Jake’s Backroom
12/04 Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
12/05 Houston, TX – Scout Bar
12/06 Dallas, TX – Three Links Deep Ellum
12/08 Denver, CO – HQ
12/11 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
12/12 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
12/13 Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club
12/15 Las Vegas, NV – Grey Witch
12/16 West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go Go
12/17 Anaheim, CA – The Parish @ House of Blues
12/18 Tucson, AZ – The Rock
12/19 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
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