Denver, CO nü-metalcore band Fox Lake are plotting an August 01st release for their guest-filled sophomore album, “New World Heat” through MNRK Heavy. An Austin Voldseth-directed video for the latest single “Pure Adrenaline” has emerged online in tandem with the track. The band commented:
“Even though ‘Pure Adrenaline‘ didn’t come together until the latter half of the recording process for the album, most of the ingredients existed as far back as 2021. The majority of the instrumental demo was written years ago, and the lyrics and energy were conceptualized in our first few conversations about what we wanted to bring to this album.
We all came together and unanimously agreed that we wanted the new songs to be faster, more visceral, more concrete, and most importantly, all gas, no brakes. Pure f**king adrenaline.”
As for the overall theme running through “New World Heat“, the group offered:
“The basic concept of the album is about burning things down in order to restart. It’s about who you are versus who you want to be. The world you live in versus the world you want to live in. It takes guts to strip everything away and take a hard, honest look at your life and the world around you.
Everyone has things that hold them down and things that seem to hold their reality in place. Habits, social circles, vices, beliefs, political systems, traumas, etc. Those things will be different for everyone. But the one constant is that action begets action and inaction begets inaction. You either drown in complacency or burn parts of yourself away to create a better world. We all have a choice. Musically, we felt like this concept fit perfectly with where we were at. We all have different inspirations that we want to bring into Fox Lake. It can be tricky to mesh together all the genres that we’re inspired by while still having an original sound.
So, for this record, we burned down the limitations we had previously put on ourselves and restarted our writing process with a singular goal — to sound like Fox Lake. The end result is an album that we’re extremely excited about and that feels very authentic to us. The music is faster, heavier, groovier, and catchier than ever before. It’s a new sound for a new world. Everyone is going to have different opinions on whether the band is more hardcore, nu-metal, rock, or metalcore. But everyone’s gonna know it’s Fox Lake.”
Guest appearances from members of Silent Planet, AVOID, Mugshot and Eyes Of Salt will all be included on the record, see below for the details.
“New World Heat” track listing:
01 – “For The Love Of The Game” (feat. Mugshot)
02 – “Tough Luck”
03 – “Freestyle” (feat. AVOID)
04 – “Go 4 The Throat”
05 – “Cold Hard Truth”
06 – “Real Fast”
07 – “h a l f t i m e”
08 – “Pure Adrenaline”
09 – “Headshot” (feat. Silent Planet)
10 – “Savior”
11 – “Gut Check” (feat. Eyes Of Salt)
12 – “Excessive Damage”
Pre-orders are available through mnrkheavy.com.
