Great American Ghost announce new EP ‘Torture World’
GREAT AMERICAN GHOST have announced a new EP!
Titled Torture World, the upcoming EP from the Boston-based hardcore band is the follow-up to 2019’s Power Through Terror, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via MNRK Heavy.
“We were excited about Power Through Terror and ready to hit the road as much as humanly possible,” vocalist Ethan Harrison recalls as he reflects on the last 18 months or so. “We had a bunch of touring ready to roll when the record came out in February. Then we were locked down in March. It was a really long eighteen months for us, like most people. There were a lot of points where really bad things happened, and we thought, ‘Well, maybe we just don’t want to do the band anymore.’ My mental health was going downward. We had a really horrible year, honestly.”
As the light began to creep in toward the end of the tunnel, with plans for shows and even touring on the horizon, Harrison and his bandmates – Niko Gasparrini and Davier Perez – began to feel some glimmers of hope. “The conversation started to feel more real. It gave me a feeling that I hadn’t had in a long time. I missed the band even more than I realised. We didn’t have any pressure or expectations in terms of how Torture World should sound. We did what we wanted and this is what came from it. There’s a larger scope of sound happening than on our earlier releases. Bells, percussion, a lot of extra instrumentation. And the riffs are still there.”
Alongside the announcement of the new EP, GREAT AMERICAN GHOST have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming EP; Kingmaker. The new music video was first premiered via Metal Injection.
Speaking about the new song, Harrison adds, “Kingmaker is a song I wrote at the height of the QAnon hysteria. It was my own observation on the kind of people that allow something so clearly based in racism and bigotry, that has been propagated for hundreds of years just to be repackaged and resold as something new and original, to fuel their every choice and how much that disgusts me. Somethings should be rejected on their face.”
Watch the official music video for Kingmaker here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:
Track List:
1. Kingmaker
2. Torture World
3. Womb
4. Death Forgives No One
Torture World is set for release on January 21st via MNRK Heavy. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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