Misery Signals have announced an August 07th release date for their first album in seven years, “Ultraviolet“. The band will release the outing independently, with it set to be their first full-length with vocalist Jesse Zaraska since their 2004 debut, “Of Malice And The Magnum Heart“.
Below you can check out a video for the album’s first single, “The Tempest“. Pre-orders for the album are available now at this location. Speaking of this new single, the band’s lead guitarist Ryan Morgan offered:
“‘The Tempest‘ feels like a concentrated dose of Misery Signals. I love that it crashes through with all this energy, with very little indulging. That type of songwriting economy was in my mind across this whole album. It’s interesting to hear a little bit of restraint work to actually make everything bigger.”
Speaking further of the album itself, he offered:
“Jesse has this really clear voice, and even in his most vicious screaming the vulnerability gets through first. People will hear the record and there won’t be any need for decoding the emotional content. ‘Sunlifter’ was the first song we wrote for the record and it set the tone thematically for the lyrics on the album, which came to be about ambition and striving and all the parts of ourselves that are in contradiction with each other.”
Zaraska added:
“It is a record that purveys a much greater sense of hope than those that preceded it, and I think that as older individuals this was important from the onset of the process. I tried to create a Misery Signals record that was lyrically more positive than the previous outings, something that I could get behind as a father. Though there still exists a fair amount of tension and darkness, there shines a great amount more light.”
The band’s current touring plans include:
With END and Neck Of The Woods:
11/19 Edmonton, AB – The Buckingham
11/20 Edmonton, AB – The Buckingham
11/21 Calgary, AB – Dicken’s Pub
11/22 Regina, SK – The Exchange
11/23 Winnipeg, MB – The Goodwill
11/24 Minneapolis, MN – Amsterdam
11/25 Iowa City, IA – Gabe’s
11/26 Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray Arcade
11/27 West Chicago, IL – WC Social Club
11/28 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
With Darkest Hour & SECT:
12/10 Denver, CO – The Marquis Theater
12/11 Albuquerque, NM – The Launchpad
12/12 Scottsdale, AZ – Pub Rock
12/13 San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
12/14 Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
12/15 Los Angeles, CA – 1720
12/18 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
12/19 Portland, OR – The Hawthorne Theatre
12/20 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw
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