Twelve Foot Ninja announce new album ‘Vengeance’

July 12, 2021 James Weaver

TWELVE FOOT NINJA have announced a new album!

Titled Vengeance, the upcoming album from the Australian progressive metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Outlier and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via self-release.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Start The Fire. Speaking about the song and its accompanying music video, guitarist/producer Stevic MacKay says, “Start The Fire drew lyrical inspiration from Todd Phillips and Scott Silver’s portrayal of the Joker. When you start treating people according to broad prejudice, they’re left with little reason not to become what they’re supposedly guilty of already being. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The video concept revolves around the threat of total annihilation. The strung-up band is being injected with a copper-based enzyme that, when mixed with human blood, can be extracted to power up current collector fuel cells (purposed for reanimating Primordian bio-technology). The band’s performance is a shared, mutual delusion. It’s all pretty straight-forward, really.”

Watch the official music video for Start The Fire here:

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

Track List:

1. Start The Fire
2. Long Way Home
3. Vengeance
4. IDK
5. Shock to the System
6. Gone
7. Culture War
8. Dead End
9. Over and Out
10. Tangled

In addition to the release of their new album, the band have announced two very special companion pieces to the record. The band will release a literary high fantasy novel called The Wyvern And The Wolf written by Nicholas Snelling. Set in a grim and savage world, the novel tells the tale of an orphaned samurai boy called Kiyoshi who is adopted by the ruthless leader of a clan of ninja. Much more than a mere origin’s story, however, the novel is a tour de force in fantasy fiction and world-building.

The second companion piece to the record is a graphic novel called Vengeance, written by Stevic Mackay with artwork by George Evangelista. The graphic novel sees the band’s namesake, the TWELVE FOOT NINJA, journey through alternate dimensions to take on an evil alien entity.

Speaking about the graphic novel, Mackay explains, “this is an exorcism of content that’s spent a decade in gestation. ‘Catharsis’ is close to what it feels like to finally share Kiyoshi’s story; and I guess respond to all questions pertaining to our name; All this time, so many have thought TWELVE FOOT NINJA was tongue-in-cheek, when in actuality, the story’s genesis occurred a year before the formation of the band. I really hope our fans enjoy the vastness of what we’ve created, and we’re able to continue to surprise people with new methods of storytelling.”

And that’s not all from the TWELVE FOOT NINJA camp! The band have announced a headlining European and UK tour for February and March next year. Tickets are available now and can be purchased here.

Tour dates are as follows:

WED 16 FEB UK, Bristol – Trinity
THU 17 FEB UK, Birmingham – O2 Institute2
SAT 19 FEB IE, Dublin – Voodoo Lounge
SUN 20 FEB UK, Belfast – Limelight 2
TUE 22 FEB UK, Glasgow – G2
WED 23 FEB UK, Manchester – Academy 3
FRI 25 FEB UK, Brighton – Concorde2
SAT 26 FEB UK, London – O2 Academy Islington
MON 28 FEB NL, Leiden – Gebr. de Nobel
TUE 01 MAR GER, Cologne – Luxor
THU 03 MAR GER, Hamburg – Knust
FRI 04 MAR DK, Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
SAT 05 MAR GER, Berlin – SO36
MON 07 MAR PL, Warsaw – Hydrozagadka
TUE 08 MAR CZ, Prague – Rock Café
THU 10 MAR GER, Frankfurt – Batschkapp Halfhouse
FRI 11 MAR GER, Munich – Backstage Halle
SAT 12 MAR SWISS, Zurich – Komplex Klub
MON 14 MAR IT, Milan – Legend Club
TUE 15 MAR FR, Lyon – CCO
THU 17 MAR SP, Bilbao – Stage Live
FRI 18 MAR SP, Madrid – Shoko
SAT 19 MAR SP, Barcelona – Razzmatazz 2
TUE 22 MAR FR, Paris – La Maroquinerie