Misery Signals announce new album ‘Ultraviolet’

May 15, 2020 James Weaver

MISERY SIGNALS have announced a new album!

Titled Ultraviolet, the upcoming album from the original metalcore pioneers is their first full-length effort for seven years and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Basick Records. The upcoming album will be first with founding vocalist Jesse Zaraska since their 2004 debut, Of Malice and the Magnum Heart.

The band’s 2014 reunion tour, celebrating the ten year anniversary of their debut album Of Malice and the Magnum Heart, sparked a flame among the original members. Despite facing initial challenges, the band ultimately felt healed by the experience of reuniting, and following their Yesterday Is Everything documentary they set to work on their new album. Marking the return of all founding members, Ryan Morgan (guitar), Branden Morgan (drums), Jesse Zaraska (vocals), Stu Ross (guitar) and Kyle Johnson (bass), the band spent the last few years writing and recording Ultraviolet.

“Jesse has this really clear voice, and even in his most vicious screaming the vulnerability gets through first,” says Morgan. “People will hear the record and there won’t be any need for decoding the emotional content. Sunlifter was the first song we wrote for the record and it set the tone thematically for the lyrics on the album, which came to be about ambition and striving and all the parts of ourselves that are in contradiction with each other.”

Speaking on the lyrical direction of the album, Zaraska says, “it is a record that purveys a much greater sense of hope than those that preceded it, and I think that as older individuals this was important from the onset of the process. I tried to create a MISERY SIGNALS record that was lyrically more positive than the previous outings, something that I could get behind as a father. Though there still exists a fair amount of tension and darkness, there shines a great amount more light.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song from the upcoming album; The Tempest. Speaking about the new song, Morgan says, “The Tempest feels like a concentrated dose of MISERY SIGNALS. I love that it crashes through with all this energy, with very little indulging. That type of songwriting economy was in my mind across this whole album. It’s interesting to hear a little bit of restraint work to actually make everything bigger.”

Watch the official music video for The Tempest here: