Frank Iero And The Future Violents announce new EP ‘Heaven is a Place, This is a Place’

November 21, 2020 James Weaver

FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS have announced a new EP!

Titled Heaven is a Place, This is a Place, the upcoming EP from Frank Iero‘s serves as a companion piece to 2019’s full-length Barriers and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via UNFD.

Originally tracked at the same time as Barriers by Steve Albini, the upcoming EP was finished and mixed by long-term friend and collaborator Steve Evetts in late 2020. Describing the Steve ‘squared’ sound as sonic perfection for these songs, Iero is quick to point out that this is not merely leftovers from Barriers but very much a main course.

“THE FUTURE VIOLENTS was the perfect band at the perfect time for me. The creativity flowed through us like rapids and we didn’t stop writing because we ran out of inspiration…it was just time to go to the studio. In fact I was still writing at the studio, but I allowed myself the luxury of 14 songs on the record leaving three to survive in the shadows. Lying in wait. I knew I wanted them to see the light, it was just a matter of how and when.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, the band have released the first song from the upcoming release; a cover of REM‘s Losing My Religion.

Listen to Losing My Religion here:

Elaborating further on the origins of the EP, Iero adds, “the title of the EP actually comes from the night before we started recording Barriers at Electrical Audio in Chicago. The band went out to eat and get drinks at a local Tiki bar called, Lost Lake. On the menu that night there was a drink called Heaven is a place/This is the place. I love when the universe gives you gifts like that. You just have to be in tune to your surroundings. The name struck me as clever and I started to think about how changing one word in that title meant something way more profound to me. Heaven is a place, if you believe in that sort of thing…It is the reward at the end of a long hard journey of fighting the good fight and living your life to whatever standards you hold dear. But it’s just a place. And so is this…This is a place, the earthly realm, miraculous on so many levels but also just a place. The difference is you and your perception.”

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

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