The Five Hundred announce new album ‘A World On Fire’
THE FIVE HUNDRED have announced a new album!
Titled A World On Fire, the upcoming album from the UK metalcore quintet is the follow-up to 2018’s Bleed Red and is scheduled to be released in July this year, via Long Branch Records.
As the world closed its frontiers, boarded up their cities, and locked themselves inside due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, the band closed themselves off from the rest of society for six months to write their sophomore album.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Our Demise. The new song is the third single to be released from the record; following on from Black Dogs and The Rising Tide.
Speaking about the new song, the band says, “I remember reading a paper about how people can pass away simply because they’ve given up. Life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable. It was a study by researchers about the ‘clinical markers’ for ‘give-up-itis’, a crude term used to describe what is known medically as psychogenic death. It usually follows a trauma from which a person thinks there is no escape, making death seem like the only rational outcome. If not arrested, death usually occurs three weeks after the first stage of withdrawal. The researcher quoted: Psychogenic death is real. It isn’t suicide, it isn’t linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma.
It’s a subject matter that triggers thoughts, perhaps analogously, that we are experiencing a societal or ecological version of this. We have given up on ourselves, and we have just accepted that this is the only, inevitable conclusion, to fade away, wide-eyed and hopeless. As a society we swing from the opposite ends of the pendulum, of environmental activism, which society bizarrely labels as ‘extremism’ to the flaccid apathy of ‘middle-of-the-road Joe Public’, who questions whether any of this is even real. We don’t need two polar opposites to war with each other, we need the middle ground to get the fuck in the water and learn to swim. We haven’t decided if this song is about fighting on or giving up… I guess we’ll let the listener decide…”
Watch the official music video for Our Demise here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Black Dogs
2. The Rising Tide
3. Our Demise
4. The Warmth
5. Walls Of Jericho feat. Andreas Bjulver
6. Your Apocalypse feat. Jeremy Gomez
7. With Scars
8. Our Curse
9. Agony
10. A World On Fire
A World On Fire is set for release on July 30th via Long Branch Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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