Employed To Serve announce new album ‘Conquering’

June 25, 2021 James Weaver

EMPLOYED TO SERVE have announced a new album!

Titled Conquering, the upcoming album from the UK hardcore-meets-metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s Eternal Forward Motion and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Spinefarm Records.

The band began recording the album in the ‘unforgiving winter’ of 2020; produced & mixed by Lewis Johns at The Ranch, Southampton, mastered by Grant Berry at Fader Mastering, the band took the time thrown at them by a world stopped still to write their most visceral material to date.

Speaking about the upcoming album, frontwoman Justine Jones says, “Conquering is about rising above adversity and self-doubt. We’re really excited to share our latest album, I feel it’s our best work to date. We wanted to go a more metal orientated direction with this album and see how far we could push our musical capabilities.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, EMPLOYED TO SERVE have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Exist. “Exist is a song that celebrates the highs and lows of existing,” says Jones. “For this video I really wanted to capture the excitement of being a pre-teen and discovering the absolute joy that is music. I loved the idea of getting into someone’s head at that time and them daydreaming about being on stage with the band you love, like we did when we were that age and recently in the past year when we couldn’t play shows!”

It took six months of planning due to the pandemic and because we had to source someone who could create one-off figures of each band member. We were lucky enough to come across Mattachine Society from Brooklyn, who creates awesome bootlegs. For the model stage and backline, Sammy and I channelled our inner Art Attack and made that during the winter lockdown to keep our minds from the apocalypse. When having meetings about how to dress the set and actors, we wanted to shout out as many of our mates’ bands as possible and leave little Easter eggs for people to find with each re-watch of the video.

The most important aspect of the video for me was finding a young energetic girl to play the really stoked kid. When I was growing up, metal was a very male dominated genre and I always felt a bit out of place. I feel that this is a different story now with so many women in bands, working in the industry and in the crowd, it’s becoming normalised which is really exciting.”

Watch the official music video for Exist here: