Shrapnel announce new album ‘In Gravity’
SHRAPNEL have announced a new album!
Titled In Gravity, the upcoming album from the UK thrash metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Palace For The Insane, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Candlelight Records.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist Chris Martin says, “we’ve channelled every bit of suffering, devastation, and emotion that we’ve experienced in recent years. We’ve never been so confident about our own material.”
Helmed by Swedish super producer Jens Bogren [SEPULTURA, OPETH, AMON AMARTH, IHSAHN] and featuring collaborations with Scott Kennedy [BLEED FROM WITHIN] and modern shred virtuoso Bradley Hall, In Gravity intends to see SHRAPNEL breaking out of their shackles where others have failed. Continuing, Chris adds, “as an album, In Gravity really has a focus on how we all deal with problems of varying extremities. We wanted to take a look at how some of the solutions to our problems become problems in of themselves, be that addiction or anything else.
It’s an album about how difficult it can be to face those problems many of us share. It was written during tragedy, and we’re rolling it out during some difficult times for us. While we don’t have the answers, we also realise that the ways we deal with issues is to create art, which in itself is a healer. We’ve really been holding the mirror up and exercising some demons on this one. It’s led to the best album we’ve ever written, and something we hope will connect other people far more deeply than anything we’ve released previously.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, SHRAPNEL have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Amber Screams. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from the title track which was released in December last year.
Speaking about the new song, the band says, “Amber Screams delves into the harmful cycle of substance abuse and the search of greater highs becoming the escape from the plummeting normalcy of addiction. This is simply the most bludgeoning and heavy we’ve ever sounded. It’s a pretty sombre and introspective song, drawing on our love of bands like ALICE IN CHAINS, DEFTONES, and GOJIRA, and turning this into something new. We really wanted to lean into our post-metal side, and ended up writing what is possibly our favourite song on the new album. We really wanted to translate a feeling of despondency and a sense of teetering on the edge of the abyss.”
Watch the official music video for Amber Screams here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. In Gravity
2. Amber Screams
3. Guardian
4. Breaker
5. Judgement
6. Dark Age
7. Follow The Cold
8. As Above…
9. …So Below
10. Absolution
In Gravity is set for release on May 31st via Candlelight Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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