Barbarian Hermit announce new album ‘Mean Sugar’

BARBARIAN HERMIT have announced a new album!

Titled Mean Sugar, the upcoming album from the Manchester-based doom/sludge metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Solitude And Savagery, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via APF Records.

Recorded by Joe Clayton at No Studio and mastered by Chris Fielding (Foel Studios), the album sees the return of original vocalist Simon Scarlett who helped craft the band’s debut One EP, originally released in 2016 (and reissued on APF Records in 2021).

Speaking about the upcoming album, frontman Simon Scarlett says, “the album is about what we know, and that is the bitter-sweetness of growing up in a northern town. It’s a crude representation of what it is to be us these past few years: Lads catapulted against our will into manhood, at a time when everything is changing, and yet here we stay under the comforting and watchful shadow of the Pennine hills.

The north is an invigorating place, there’s a post-industrial beauty here unlike anywhere else. It’s also a tough place, precarious and on the edge. Sometimes we can feel powerless and unheard; our response to this, is to pick up guitars, make noise and hammer down a punishing rhythm.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, BARBARIAN HERMIT have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Stitched Up. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “[Stitched Up was] one of the first songs we wrote as a full band after Si rejoined and it was one of those where everything clicks and it almost writes itself. It just fell out of us. It features not only one of the catchiest riffs we’ve ever written but also one of the heaviest and most disrespectful. Lyrically the track is about perseverance. We are surrounded by disruption, things that trip us up, make us lose sleep and neglect our own fulfilment.”

Watch the official music video for Stitched Up here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Mean Sugar
2. Battle Of Kompromat
3. Out Come The Boasts
4. Who Put 50p In You?
5. Stitched Up
6. Deadbolt
7. Kick Up The Dust
8. Stranger Than Fiction
9. Heal The Tyrant

Mean Sugar is set for release on August 2nd via APF Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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