The Modern Age Slavery announce new album ‘1901 | The First Mother’
THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY have announced a new album!
Titled 1901 | The First Mother, the upcoming album from the Italian death metal band is the follow-up to 2017’s Stygian, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Fireflash Records.
Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Giovanni Berselli says, “1901 | The First Mother is not a concept album, but there are some pivotal themes throughout. The album title hides a twofold meaning. On one hand, 1901 recalls the year in which Queen Victoria, of the House of Saxe, passed away decreeing the beginning of Modernism in Philosophy or, in other words, the establishment of the Modern Era. The subtitle – The First Mother – underlines that, in my mind, this album is the first chapter of a trilogy in which I will try to paint, with words and music, several forms of self-imposed slavery. 1901 draws inspiration from Pre-First World War poets, philosophers, and scientists. The following chapter shall try to describe the post-world war scenario, whereas the third and final chapter will resemble the yet-to-come, though inevitable, future in which we will all let part of our lives to be driven by others. These last lines, somehow, pull me back to the actual THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY manifesto, initially inspired by the book Escaping From Freedom by Erich Fromm, which investigates the psychological state of mind of uneducated masses, willing to avoid the responsibility to choose for their own future.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; KLLD.
Speaking about the new song, Berselli says, “the lyrics are freely inspired by a poem from Blaise Cendras entitled J’ai tué (namely, I’ve Killed) that tells the horror of a French, naive and young poet, forced to turn into the killer of a German soldier for self-defense, during the first world war. The words reflect the images, the scent, the fear and the emotional struggle of a pure-hearted man soiled with evil.”
Watch the official music video for KLLD here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Pro Patria Mori
2. KLLD
3. Irradiate All The Earth
4. The Hip
5. Lilibeth
6. Overture To Silence
7. OXYgen
8. Nytric
9. Victoria’s death
10. The Age Of Great Men
11. Blind (KORN cover)
1901 | The First Mother is set for release on May 5th via Fireflash Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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