Godsticks announce new album ‘This Is What A Winner Looks Like’

GODSTICKS have announced a new album!

Titled This Is What A Winner Looks Like, the upcoming album from the progressive rock band is the follow-up to 2020’s Inescapable, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Kscope.

Having released Inescapable in February 2020, a mere month before the world plummeted into lockdown, the band had no means to perform the new songs to an audience. Living in this world of stasis, it wasn’t until September 2021 when the band were able to perform the tracks for a live audience that they began to think about their next album. “It was impossible not to notice the creative tsunami that the pandemic engendered in the music industry – every band and their dog were writing and releasing new music. For me though, it was the least creative time in my entire life,” says guitarist Darran Charles.

Recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios, the album was produced by James Loughrey and mastered by Maor Appelbaum.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Mayhem. Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Charles says, “I stumbled upon this really ugly dissonant chord that sounded great with distortion, and thought about ways of making it sound even nastier and more chaotic (hence the title). But I was also interested in causing Tom (drummer) physical harm so I devised a bass drum pattern so complex that it will likely cause him a repetitive strain injury in the very near future. This song promises to be immense live and the music video hopefully translates the energy we’re going to bring to the stage when we take this song out on the road.

“For what is probably the heaviest and most rebellious track on the forthcoming album This Is What A Winner Looks Like we chose a location that itself was the location of the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain – The Westgate Hotel. Where on the 4 November 1839, local politician and activist John Frost led a protest march of 3,000 Chartists, some of them armed, into the centre of Newport, South Wales. GODSTICKS – as of yet – have no plans to form such a rebellion.”

Watch the official music video for Mayhem here: 

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

Track List: 

1. If I Don’t Take It All
2. Eliminate and Repair
3. This Is My New Normal
4. Devotion Made To Offend
5. Silent Saw
6. Throne
7. Don’t Say A Word To Me
8. Mayhem
9. Lying
10. Wake Up

This Is What A Winner Looks Like is set for release on May 26th via Kscope. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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