Oceans Ate Alaska‘s fist studio album with vocalist Joel Heywood, “Purge“, will be arriving on January 22nd. That effort will also serve as the metalcore band’s first completely independently released offering. A brand new single titled “Bring You Back” has just received its roll out, with Shaun Hodson (Sleep Token, Cradle Of Filth) helming the shoot for its accompanying music video.
Heywood channeled the crippling prenatal and postnatal depression his wife experienced into this song, stating:
“She was at the lowest point I’d ever seen her in my life and all I wanted to do was save her. No matter how much love and care or attention to her issues I gave, it’s chemical, and nothing I could do would help her to come back to who she was. For her it just felt endless.”
Speaking on the video treatment for this new track, Heywood added. “It’s an over the top version of events of her becoming a ‘ghost of herself,’ a ghost of the person she once was and I felt powerless no matter how much I tried.”
“Purge” explores various facets of trauma and mental health struggles, as Heywood relayed, “‘Purge‘ came from wanting to finally get this all out of me, to let it bleed from me onto the songs and into the pages of the lyrics, and to try to start to feel free of things I’ve held inside for so long.”
“Purge” track listing:
01 – “Endless Hollow“
02 – “Manifest Misery“
03 – “Bring You Back“
04 – “Still Low“
05 – “Spiral“
06 – “More To Life“
07 – “Pain Into Power“
08 – “Purge“
09 – “Onsra“
10 – “Jonathan Pork“
11 – “Bloom“
For pre-orders, make your way over to oaa.goodtunes.music. On the live front, a European/UK tour with Signs Of The Swarm, ten56. and Face Yourself will commence in February, hitting the following cities:
02/03 Frankfurt, GER – Das Bett
02/04 Utrecht, NET – Tivoli Pandora
02/05 Cologne, GER – Essigfabrik
02/06 Hamburg, GER – Logo
02/07 Copenhagen, DEN – Pumpehuset
02/08 Gothenburg, SWE – Filmstudion
02/09 Oslo, NOR – John Dee
02/10 Stockholm, SWE – Kollektivet Livet
02/12 Helsinki, FIN – Tavastia
02/13 Tampere, FIN – Olympia Kortteli
02/15 Warsaw, POL – Proxima
02/16 Berlin, GER – Hole44
02/17 Prague, CZE – Rock Cafe
02/18 Vienna, AUT – Szene
02/19 Budapest, HUN – A38 Ship
02/20 Munich, GER – Backstage Halle
02/21 Milan, ITA – Legend Club
02/22 Zurich, SWI – Dynamo
02/23 Paris, FRA – Petit Bain (no ten56.)
02/25 Bristol, UK – The Fleece
02/26 London, UK – O2 Academy Islington
02/27 Manchester, UK – Club Academy
02/28 Dublin, IRE – Opium
03/01 Belfast, UK – Limelight 2
03/03 Glasgow, UK – Slay
03/04 Leeds, UK – The Key Club
03/05 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
03/06 Southampton, UK – The Brook
03/07 Antwerp, BEL – Trix Club
