Senses Fail announce new album ‘Hell Is In Your Head’

November 7, 2021 James Weaver

SENSES FAIL have announced a new album!

Titled Hell Is In Your Head, the upcoming album from the American post-hardcore band is the follow-up to 2018’s If There Is Light, It Will Find You, and is scheduled to be released in July next year, via Pure Noise Records.

The upcoming album was co-produced by SAOSIN’s Beau Burchell and it intends to reflect vocalist Buddy Nielsen, the sole remaining founding member of SENSES FAIL, thinking about his own mortality more than ever before. That started during his wife’s pregnancy, but it’s persisted ever since.

“The band has now become me and vice-versa.” he explains “I’m trying to put myself on the map as a songwriter and as a complete musician, not just as a lyricist or the singer. This is where I had been planning to get to over the last three records. As a touring entity we are still five people, but when it comes down to the writing, it’s a solo vision as far as where I want to take it.”

“My wife had a pretty serious childbirth,” he says. “I don’t want to say she almost died but it was pretty scary for a minute. And the relationship you have to have with your child is just a constant letting go of yourself in ways that you didn’t necessarily perceive you needed to. I’ve had to start to come to terms with my own death because my daughter, who’s now four, keeps asking about it. So this felt like an opportunity to maybe address grief and how we process being – how do you have a kid, how do you be alive, how do you continue to live a meaningful life while also knowing that you’re going to die?”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; I’m Sorry I’m Leaving. The new song is the second single to be lifted from the upcoming album, following on from Death By Water, which was released back in August.

Speaking about the new song, Nielsen adds, “I wrote this song about the constant struggling with making music and art as a living. I am constantly waiting for it to all fail and disappear even 20 years into a career. At no point do I ever feel safe. After having a child, the relationship with this lifestyle became more strained. Having to leave home and lose time with your child while also hoping that what you do continues to support your family and remains fulfilling is complicated. Continuing to improve and remove my own trauma in order to be a better father is the bases and goal of the song.”

Watch the official music video for I’m Sorry I’m Leaving here:

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

Track List:

1. Burial of the Dead
2. End of The World/A Game of Chess (feat. Connie Sgarbossa)
3. The Fire Sermon
4. I Am Error
5. Death By Water (feat. Spencer Charnas)
6. What The Thunder Said
7. Miles to Go
8. Lush Rimbaugh
9. Hell Is In Your Head
10. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving
11. Grow Away from Me