Welcome to The Daily Drop, your roundup of the latest news from the rock, metal, punk, emo, hardcore, and alternative scenes.
Catching up on a busy end to the week, today’s round-up covers new singles from Employed To Serve and Tokyo Taboo, album announcements from RØRY, De Staat, and Future Palace, and the arrival of new band Reclus.É. Boundaries also preview their upcoming new album with ‘Only Endless’. There are also 35 additions to the ‘Newish Music’ playlist.
Here’s everything you need to know from the past few days.
Employed To Serve Drop New Single ‘Dead Reckoning’
RØRY Detail Second Album ‘Bloodletting’
Reclus.É Announce Debut Singles
Tokyo Taboo Unveil New Single ‘WINGS’
De Staat Return With Self-Titled Album & ‘The Fire’
Future Palace Reveals New Album Plans (‘Resurgence’)
Boundaries Share New Single ‘Only Endless’
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Employed To Serve Drop New Single ‘Dead Reckoning’
UK metallic hardcore outfit Employed To Serve are back with new single ‘Dead Reckoning’, out now via Church Road Records.
It kicks off a new chapter for the band, yet retains the intensity of past releases. Guitarist/vocalist Sammy Urwin says the track “exploded into existence, rather than having been carefully crafted”.
As a band that often looks to find the positive, Justine Jones highlights the band’s perseverance, screaming “against all odds, I find my way”. On the ‘Dead Reckoning’s lyrics, Jones states the track “definitely taps more into our darker side and serves as a conduit to blow off steam. We hope the listeners get the same release from the track that we do.”
Employed To Serve will be playing several European dates in the coming months. It includes an appearance at the Radar Festival on August 2nd.
RØRY Detail Second Album ‘Bloodletting’
Having achieved a UK top 10 album last year with ‘Restoration,’ RØRY will release its follow-up this September. It’s called ‘Bloodletting’, and will be released September 4th via Sadcøre Records.
The 13-track record features past singles, ‘DEGRADATION’, ‘DEAD GIRL WALKING’ and ‘KIDS THESE DAYS,’ alongside new single ‘Strange’.
The album promises to see RØRY go into heavier territory, while retaining her lyrically raw honesty. Produced with longtime collaborators Kingdom, with additional production and mixing from Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Muse), ‘Bloodletting’ is described as being RØRY‘s “most ambitious and most expansive” music to date.
“I realised I was sick from being nice. I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. I’d become disconnected from huge parts of myself. BLOODLETTING was about reclaiming them,” she says.
1. [welcome to bloodletting]
2. DEGRADATION
3. SWALLOW
4. a cure for cancer
5. MORTAL
6. [the death of a people pleaser]
7. KIDS THESE DAYS
8. DEAD GIRL WALKING
9. GREY
10. [oh when the saints]
11. hometown
12. STRANGE
13. [do you want to live?]
Reclus.É Announce Debut Singles
New project Reclus.É have introduced themselves with two debut tracks, signing to Rise/BMG in the process. The band brings together BBC Radio 1 Rock Show presenter Daniel P. Carter and Soren Bryce of Tummyache. Their debut single ‘A Muted TV’ is backed by a cover of Portishead‘s ‘Roads’.
Drawing on a wide range of influences such as The Cure, Fugazi, Stone Roses, Bad Brains and The Sound, Reclus.É‘s sound is equally explosive as it is cathartic and cinematic. ‘A Muted TV’ is described as “an examination of technology and wealth’s influence on self-image and social psyche”. A debut album is in the works.
The duo will support A Perfect Circle in London this week, and are set to appear at both Outbreak and 2000Trees festivals.
June
3rd
Brixton Academy, London w/ A Perfect Circle
4th Brixton Academy, London w/ A Perfect Circle
27th – Outbreak Festival, Manchester
July
10th 2000trees Festival
Tokyo Taboo Unveil New Single ‘WINGS’
Emerging London-based quartet Tokyo Taboo have released ‘WINGS’, taken from their yet-to-be-announced debut album.
Born from a place of negativity, the track is about rising above awful behaviour from people in authority. For frontwoman Dolly Daggerz, ‘WINGS’ is about transforming into a stronger person.
“Smear campaigns ultimately backfire when you don’t respond to the bullies and instead go deeper into the truth of who you are. You can use their hate as fuel and rise so high above it that no-one can say anything that bothers you anymore,” says Dolly Daggerz. “Words just ricochet because you sit comfortably in your own truth. There’s real strength in knowing who you are and becoming unbothered by those who are continually intent on misunderstanding you.”
De Staat Return With Self-Titled Album & ‘The Fire’
Dutch art-rock outfit De Staat have announced their seventh album. The self-titled effort will be released on September 18th via V2 Records. It is previewed by the new single ‘The Fire’.
‘De Staat’ (The State) follows a two-year hiatus, and looks to continue commonplace themes of power, manipulation, misinformation and autocracy. “As a band, we’ve long explored ideas around power, faith, and the increasingly blurred line between reality and fiction,” says frontman Torre Florim. “The world we’re living in has pulled us further down that dark path, and suddenly it feels as though the name we chose 25 years ago has taken on a whole new weight – as if everything we’ve made has been unconsciously building towards this moment. That’s why our seventh album is called DE STAAT.”
‘The Fire’ proves to be a rigged preview with its industrial grooves as Florim aims his words at modern consumer detachment. “‘THE FIRE’ is about the comfortable assumption that the world’s disasters will stay safely on the other side of the screen. We hang in that quiet space between knowing and acting – and from this side, it’s easy to mistake one for the other.”
De Staat will follow up the release of the album with a tour of the UK and Ireland in November.
November
9th Thekla, Bristol
10th Band on the Wall, Manchester
11th The Grand Social, Dublin
13th King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
14th Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
15th Scala, London
Future Palace Reveals New Album Plans (‘Resurgence’)
Berlin trio Future Palace have announced their fourth album. ‘Resurgence’ is set to be released on July 31st via Century Media Records. The record is previewed by a track called ‘Resurge’.
Consisting of 12 tracks, it will offer a blend of soaring metalcore with cinematic electronics and crushing breakdowns. It’s paired up with themes of depression, doubt, and emotional transformation.
As for their new single, ‘Resurge,’ it highlights Future Palace‘s earworm hooks with Maria Lessing’s acrobatic vocals at the forefront. “Musically, ‘Resurge’ felt very nu metal right from the start when writing it,” says guitarist Manuel Kohlert. “So you can call it another experiment since we didn’t do that kind of music yet. Side-note: When writing the instrumental, I had a Japanese video game in mind, which I really liked as a kid; the soundtrack was also phenomenal. It is called ‘Solatorobo’.”
On the track’s lyrical content, Lessing shared, “This song is about doubting everything and every decision you’ve made so far in your life. Thinking about what it would be like if you would completely restart and be a totally different person — but also sacrifice everything and everyone you have in your life currently. It’s supposed to convey deep despair and self-doubt. What would life be like, if you were reborn today?”
1. Deep Blue
2. Resurge
3. Supernova
4. Disintegrate
5. The Shades
6. Nixy
7. Thorns
8. Ebb and Flow
9. Nightfall
10. Symphony of the Clouds
11. Tidal Waves
12. Cyclone
November
4th The Garage, London
5th Manchester Academy 3, Manchester
6th Slay, Glasgow
7th The Key Club, Leeds
Boundaries Share New Single (‘Only Endless’)
Ahead of their appearance at this month’s Download Festival, Boundaries have shared the latest preview of their new album. ‘Only Endless’ is taken from ‘Yearning: The Unbeautiful After,’ which is released on Sumerian Records on July 17th.
On ‘Only Endless,’ the Hartford-based band demonstrates their melodic capabilities with an explosive slice of metalcore. However, having become one of heavy music’s most talked-about bands, they maintain a relentless intensity with a thrilling breakdown.
Boundaries will also be playing a handful of UK and Irish dates after their appearance at the Download Festival on June 14th.
June
14th Download Festival, Donington Park
15th Limelight, Belfast (w/ The Plot In You)
16th Academy, Dublin (w/ The Plot In You)
17th Y Plas, Cardiff (w/ Kublai Khan TX)
19th Voodoos, Norwich (co-headline w/ Heriot)
20th Cavern, Exeter (co-headline w/ Heriot)
Today’s New Songs
Here’s a rundown of the latest additions to our ‘Newish Music’ playlist.
BabyMetal – from me to u (Jordan Fish Remix)
In This Moment – Sleeping With The Enemy
Sublime – Gangstalker
Røry – Strange
Employed To Serve – Dead Reckoning
The Bouncing Souls – Only Echoes
Meshuggah – Shed
Hollywood Undead – Feels Like Home
Tom Morello – Adjourn It (feat. Serj Tankian & Roman Morello)
Boundaries – Only Endless
Blood Command – Flowers To A Knife Fight
Scowl – Whip It (Remix)
Reclus.É – A Muted TV
Reclus.É – Roads
Future Palace – Resurge
TX2 – Confession
Lølø – Perfect (‘Mile End Kicks’ – Music Inspired by the Motion Picture)
Shoreline – Paradox Man (Acoustic)
Sans Froid – Pros & Constants
Swiss Army Wife – Cowboy
Dragged Under – Rebel Son Rise!
Tokio Hotel – Memory Lane
Zero 9:36 – One to Create You
Point North – THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT
The Ocean – Light Pollution
De Staat – The Fire
Sesame Girl – Wings of a Butterfly
Hopsydian – ELYSIUM
Chopper – New Body
Crumbling Ghost – Bill Norrie
J NOIRE – Radiate
sadplanet – please
Brightshade – Antagonist
Vampires Everywhere! – Your Black Heart
Entropic Rot – Scum
Keep up to date with all the latest rock, metal, punk, and beyond, by following AlreadyHeard‘s ‘Newish Music’ Playlist.
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