All That Remains have now debuted their two new singles “Madness” and “Safe House“. Both tracks debuted this morning on SiriusXM‘s Liquid Metal and Octane. Frontman Phil Labonte called in to debut the tracks and gave some insight to them.
Speaking of “Madness“, he offered:
“People tend to kind of get into kind of ruts in their lives or into patterns, and they keep doing the same thing over and over, even though it doesn’t produce the results they’re hoping for.
You can see a lot of societal cycles where nations just keep doing the same kind of stuff over, and it doesn’t always have great results. But still, it seems like a good idea.
So, that’s kind of the idea is like human beings, whether you’re talking about individuals or large groups, they get into these kinds of cycles of repetitive things that can be really destructive, and so that’s kind of what I’m thinking, that’s what ‘madness’ is.”
As for “Safe House“, the inspiration in part came from the TV adaptation of ‘Dexter‘. Phil commented:
“The idea behind it was like, you know, what if like Dexter wasn’t a forensic guy for the police but was a dude that just kind of set his house up so that it invited home invasion, and he used that as his excuse for smoking people? Kind of like it leads the character into the house and into a place where [Dexter] can get away with killing people.”
The band’s new album is due out this spring with more details to come.
