Northlane announce new album ‘Alien’

April 29, 2019 James Weaver

NORTHLANE have announced a new album!

Titled Alien, is the fifth studio album from the Aussie metallers and is scheduled to be released in August this year.

The upcoming album was produced by the band themselves, recorded at Chris Blancato’s studio in Sydney, where the band recorded their first EP, 2010’s Hollow Existence. Vocalist Marcus Bridge did his vocals at Sydney’s Electric Sun Studios, where the quintet made their 2011 debut album, Discoveries.

For a band that have traditionally focused on wider issues in the outside world, Alien is easily the most personal statement of their career. “I was raised in hell but I made it out,” says vocalist Marcus Bridge. “Raised in a place I shouldn’t have been, and no child should have been. But I’ve been able to break free.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have launched a new music video for the first single from the upcoming album; tiled Bloodline.

Speaking about the song, Bridge says, “Bloodline was one of the first songs that came about in the writing process for the album. When we were trying to decide what we wanted to write about, we decided early on that we wanted to keep the album pretty personal. I wanted to tell the stories of my upbringing and the ups and downs that come along with that. It talks about that idea of growing up in a broken home despite all odds and what might be expected of someone who grows up like that. You are able to be what people think of you and break out of that spiral, that terrible world. For me, that’s a mix of telling the story simple, but then it also tells some parts of my story in really fine detail. For example, the second verse goes into a lot of moments that I actually remember growing up and these landmarks- all these things I remember seeing. This song is a perfect way to sum up the album and also be the first toe in the water to be able to tell this story.”

Watch the official music video for Bloodline here: