Warbringer‘s new song “Silhouettes” can now be heard in its entirety. A video for the track was released today and was directed by Orie McGinness. Vocalist John Kevill commented:
“This song, the album opener, is a blazing and intense number; we wanted the album to open with pure annihilation. I had the lyric in my head and the frantic riff under the verse since the beginning of 2014, and I am very pleased that it exists as a full song now.
The idea for the song came from a particularly chilling detail found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; when the atomic bombs went off the shadows of people whose bodies were vaporized still remain burned onto the walls and the ground where they once stood. To me, this is goddamn horrifying. I thought – “What if the souls of those dead remain trapped in the shadows?”
I wanted to have the song written from a future where civilization has failed, the Earth is in ruins and the few remaining survivors live a horrible existence. The untold millions of shadows from this future, burnt into stone, look back at us in the present time and judge us for bringing about the apocalypse that, though we saw it coming, we did nothing to avoid.
The way I see it, we continue funding weaponry that keeps getting more and more devastating (search “satan-2″ if you think this issue is some relic), and leadership seems on a sharp downward trend as well. Not the ingredients for a positive outcome. Remember, it only takes one mistake, once, and everything everyone has ever built, written, painted, all music, all culture, every ounce of human achievement is gone, in a single blinding flash.
Like it or not, this is the world we live in today, and entering 2017 the delicate balance tips and sways more and more.
So, Happy New Year. Enjoy the time we have left, and fucking thrash. Woe to the Vanquished.
We’re Ghosts!”
March 31st will see the release of the band’s new album “Woe To The Vanquished” via Napalm Records. They will also be touring Europe and the UK this spring with Havok:
04/01 Edinburgh, UK – Heavy Scotland Fest
04/02 Manchester, UK – Rebellion
04/03 Birmingham, UK – Mama Roux’s
04/04 London, UK – Underworld
04/05 Hasselt, BEL – Muziekodroom
04/06 Tilburg, NET – 013
04/07 Hamburg, GER – Logo
04/08 Aarhus, DEN – Royal Metal Festival
04/09 Gothenburg, SWE – Sticky Fingers
04/11 Helsinki, FIN – Tavastia
04/13 Stockholm, SWE – Fryshuset Klubben
04/14 Copenhagen, DEN – Pumpehuset
04/15 Berlin, GER – Cassiopeia
04/16 Markneukirchen. GER – Framus & Warwick Concert Hall
04/17 Munich, GER – Feierwerk
04/19 Vienna, AUT – Arena
04/20 Ljubljana, SLO – Orto Bar
04/21 Brescia, ITA – Circolo Colony
04/22 Pratteln, SWI – Z7
04/23 Saarbruecken, GER – Garage
04/24 Nantes, FRA – Ferrailleur
04/26 Madrid, SPA – Caracol
04/27 Barcelona, SPA – Salamandra 1
04/28 Puget, FRA – Le Rat
04/29 Paris, FRA – Petit Bain
04/30 Essen, GER – Turock
[via Decibel]
