Godsticks announce new album ‘Inescapable’
GODSTICKS have announced a new album!
The upcoming album, titled Inescapable, is the brand new studio effort from the UK progressive rockers and is scheduled to be released in February next year.
The upcoming album was produced by James Loughrey [SKINDRED] and recorded at the famed heritage Monnow Valley Studio. The band found themselves wanting a definitive theme running through Inescapable, without turning it into a concept album, of being more open, more personal and ultimately one that shines an inquisitive light on guitarist/vocalist Darran Charles‘ struggle with inner demons which gave the songs a new level of intimacy.
Speaking about the upcoming album, Charles says, “lyrically, I’ve always shared personal thoughts, feelings and experiences but in a very ambiguous way. For Inescapable – in a conscious effort not to repeat ourselves – I thought I’d be a little more self-reflective and perhaps examine some of my inner demons. I have a strange relationship with music, and especially playing guitar. I would struggle to survive without either, but equally they have made my life mentally torturous because my own self-worth is completely wrapped up in them. I used to be very much a perfectionist in my early years, and whilst some people may wear that as a badge of honour, I eventually viewed it as huge heavy weight dragging down. It was a long time before I arrived at the realisation that perfection was impossible to achieve.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first single to be lifted from the upcoming album; Denigrate. The new song features a guest appearance from TESSERACT‘s Daniel Tompkins.
The shoot for the quirky video, directed by George Laycock [Blacktide Audio/Visual] proved to be a memorable day for the band as GODSTICKS drummer Tom Price recalls, “everyone in the band was so excited about the concept, but when we arrived on set and saw a large table full of cakes, sweets, chocolate, sugar, sprinkles, honey and all manners of confectionary, the magnitude of what we had all let ourselves in for finally dawned on us! By the end of the shoot we were completely covered in everything – it was like The Great British Bake Off meets Apocalypse Now! It was so much fun to make, but despite several spins in the washing machine I still can‘t get that sweet sickly smell out of my jeans!” Charles chimes in “It wasn’t fun, it was horrible!”
Watch the official music video for Denigrate here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
Inescapable is set for release on February 7th via Kscope.
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