Mastiff - Sign With eOne, New Full Length Due In September
UK based blackened sludge/hardcore crew Mastiff has recently signed deal with the new record label - eOne. The first result of this newly sealed collaboration will be the band's third full length instalment, Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth. Crafted at No Studio with producer Joe Clayton, it's set to land in stores on September 10, 2021. In advance of the record's release, Mastiff offer in listening the first single "Endless".
Comments the band on the union with eOne and video premiere, "It still feels like some kind of fever-dream that we're working with eOne on our new record. Collectively, some of our favorite bands of all time have been part of this label, so it's absolutely mind-blowing that we might be spoken of in the same breath as them. Since conversations first began with the team, they've been so supportive and enthusiastic about our grotty little band and the album we've made. We felt pretty sure that we'd made something quite special this time around and knowing that people with long and illustrious histories in the metal industry felt the same way - not to mention people who've worked with some of the genre's biggest and best - it's a pretty spectacular vote of confidence for five miserable miscreants from Hull.
"Endless" is one of the earlier songs we wrote for the new record. It feels in a way like a microcosm of the whole album, in that it's all over the place sonically yet somehow hangs together coherently. It goes from this shockingly anthemic - if not quite melodic - blackened opening, through a sinister chuggy bridge, and then ends in a chaotic, '90s-Converge-breakdown. Lyrically, it's a bit of a meditation on the helplessness that comes when a human being becomes an emotional bargaining chip in a broken-down relationship. Typical jolly Mastiff fare, really. We're so disgustingly happy with how the video turned out too. Our old mate and Hull native Stew Baxter helped us put together a grimy, raw promo that feels in part a direct homage to some of the early-'00s metalcore videos that inspired us so much back in the day, and part like a CCTV feed catching a crime against music on tape."
Comments the band on the union with eOne and video premiere, "It still feels like some kind of fever-dream that we're working with eOne on our new record. Collectively, some of our favorite bands of all time have been part of this label, so it's absolutely mind-blowing that we might be spoken of in the same breath as them. Since conversations first began with the team, they've been so supportive and enthusiastic about our grotty little band and the album we've made. We felt pretty sure that we'd made something quite special this time around and knowing that people with long and illustrious histories in the metal industry felt the same way - not to mention people who've worked with some of the genre's biggest and best - it's a pretty spectacular vote of confidence for five miserable miscreants from Hull.
"Endless" is one of the earlier songs we wrote for the new record. It feels in a way like a microcosm of the whole album, in that it's all over the place sonically yet somehow hangs together coherently. It goes from this shockingly anthemic - if not quite melodic - blackened opening, through a sinister chuggy bridge, and then ends in a chaotic, '90s-Converge-breakdown. Lyrically, it's a bit of a meditation on the helplessness that comes when a human being becomes an emotional bargaining chip in a broken-down relationship. Typical jolly Mastiff fare, really. We're so disgustingly happy with how the video turned out too. Our old mate and Hull native Stew Baxter helped us put together a grimy, raw promo that feels in part a direct homage to some of the early-'00s metalcore videos that inspired us so much back in the day, and part like a CCTV feed catching a crime against music on tape."
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