Therapy? announce new album ‘Hard Cold Fire’
THERAPY? have announced a new album!
Titled Hard Cold Fire, the upcoming album from the Northern Irish hard rock band is the follow-up to 2018’s Cleave, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Marshall Records.
Working once more with renowned producer Chris Sheldon [FEEDER, BIFFY CLYRO, FOO FIGHTERS], the band decamped to the newly opened Marshall Studios in Milton Keynes toward the end of 2021, working furiously to put the album down in its final form. “One thing we did decide when we were eventually able to rehearse, was that we didn’t want to make a lockdown record,” says vocalist and guitarist Andy Cairns, “because people have been through enough. When we began to rehearse the songs, we realised there was an empathetic quality to them. We wanted to make something that was a bit more relatable, and less standoffish and claustrophobic – which we have a history of, and it stands in places – but we wanted to make something more approachable and open.”
Bassist Michael McKeegan adds, “we wanted this album to be one that felt good to play live, almost a release after this period of stasis, but then also not dwelling on the whole situation – we’re moving forward, and we wanted that energy to be there.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Joy. “Well, Joy started with a term from Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett,” confesses Cairns. “This wonderful line: ‘habit is a great deadener’. I just love that word, ‘dead-en-er’. It’s an amazing word. People get themselves into these habits, and the next thing you know, their life is over and they’ve only lived in a very small circle of experience, often through choice, which is scary.”
Watch the official music video for Joy here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. They Shoot the Terrible Master
2. Woe
3. Joy
4. Bewildered Herd
5. Two Wounded Animals
6. To Disappear
7. Mongrel
8. Poundland of Hope and Glory
9. Ugly
10. Days Kollaps
Hard Cold Fire is set for release on May 5th via Marshall Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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