Those Damn Crows announce new album ‘Inhale/Exhale’

September 9, 2022 James Weaver

THOSE DAMN CROWS have announced a new album!

Titled Inhale/Exhale, the upcoming album from the Welsh hard rock band is the follow-up to 2020’s Point Of No Return, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Earache Records.

The upcoming album was recorded at the picturesque Vada Studios (built within a 13th Century chapel amongst 20 acres of rural Warwickshire) and in the beating heart of their Welsh homeland at Giant Wafer Studios, with producer Dan Weller [ENTER SHIKARI, MONSTER TRUCK, BURY TOMORROW] and mixer Phil Gornell [BRING ME THE HORIZON, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, YOU ME AT SIX].

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Shane Greenhall says, “the album is talking openly and honestly about how we react as individuals to our life’s surroundings and experiences. Have you ever noticed when you experience an emotion that your breath changes? We all must learn how to breathe in certain scenarios. How we respond is sometimes more important than how we react in those unpredictable scenarios. We can all breathe, but how we breathe and the manner in which we inhale, exhale can literally change how we feel in that moment.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, THOSE DAMN CROWS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming; Wake Up (Sleepwalker). Speaking about the new song, Greenhall says, “it’s meant to be upfront and personal. It’s supposed to make you sit up and think about how we are all living in today’s society, where the rich are getting richer, and where tech giants are moulding us into whatever and however THEY see fit via technology and social media. Get your heads out of your phones. Look up, WAKE UP!”

The new song’s accompanying music video was created by Shaun Hodson of Loki Films [VOLBEAT, SKINDRED, ARCHITECTS] and David Provan of 12 Inch Media [ALICE COOPER, STEREOPHONICS, ALTER BRIDGE]. Shane elaborates, “when coming up with ideas on how to tell the story of Wake Up, I remembered the scene in The Matrix where Neo and Morpheus were in between worlds and talking in the white rooms, similar to the scene in Willy Wonka where they zap the little boy into the TV. In the video we are in between the two worlds, ‘The Real World’ and ‘The Tech World’. We hack the system as our message is transmitted to interrupt the algorithms that cleverly influence us while being led by the corporate and tech giants, fuelled by greed and false news, via the portals that they use on us – our smartphones, TVs, tablets, billboards – anything with a screen.”

Watch the official music video for Wake Up (Sleepwalker) here: