Cloud Nothings have announced their new album, What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?, out Jan. 29 via Pure Noise Records.
What Kind of Hell Did You Survive? draws on the heaviness of Queens of the Stone Age, Motörhead, and others, reflecting the band’s desire to break away from their indie-rock identity and explore a denser sound.
“The album is our attempt to pay homage to the heavy rock music we’ve been listening to over the last few years,” vocalist Dylan Baldi says. “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.”
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It’s previewed by “Death Keeps Me Alive,” a song told from the perspective of an evil force that thrives on death, war, and hatred.
“Lyrically, ‘Death Keeps Me Alive’ is from the point of view of a lurking evil power that never gets fully defeated in the world and feeds off death, war, and hate, which is a fun, generically ‘metal’ thing to sing about,” Baldi adds. “I hope people hear this song and get excited for what the rest of the record could possibly sound like, and recognize that this is going to be a new version of Cloud Nothings that didn’t really have a precedent prior to this recording.”
Watch the video below.
Cloud Nothings – What Kind of Hell Did You Survive? tracklist
1. “World Destroyer”
2. “You and I”
3. “That’s Life”
4. “Terror Multiplies”
5. “Death Keeps Me Alive”
6. “Part of Something More”
7. “You Do The Killing Too”
8. “Die In Piece”
9. “This World Is Shit”
