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Cloud Nothings release “What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?” on 29 January 2027 through Pure Noise Records, with pre-orders already open. It is nine tracks recorded and produced by Seth Manchester, whose credits include Battles, Lightning Bolt and The Body: “World Destroyer”, “You and I”, “That’s Life”, “Terror Multiplies”, “Death Keeps Me Alive”, “Part of Something More”, “You Do The Killing Too”, “Die In Piece” and “This World Is Shit”.
The album came out of a European tour the band did with a manager of Earth which, according to the press release, led them down a funeral doom rabbit hole: Bell Witch’s “Mirror Reaper” and Electric Wizard’s “Dopethrone”. Dylan Baldi says the result was music inspired by “political metal and hardcore”: “The songs deal with cruel governments, the importance of community, and occasionally a general rage at the state of the world.”
“The album is our attempt to pay homage to the heavy rock music we’ve been listening to over the last few years”, he adds. “Some pretty direct and popular musical influences on the tracks are Queens of the Stone Age, Motörhead, Earth, and Electric Wizard. We were feeling a little pigeonholed in the indie rock world and wanted to make a change in our sound that revealed a different facet of our interests and abilities.”
The first preview is “Death Keeps Me Alive”, with a video directed by Alex Scalzo-Brown, and Baldi screams his way through it. The lyric, he says, is written from the point of view of “a lurking evil power that never gets fully defeated in the world and feeds off of death, war and hate”. The band’s last album, “Final Summer”, is from April 2024.
Text by Marçal Bonastre