Wounded Touch‘s new EP “They Promised Eden, Vol. 2” has just arrived through the reactivated Ferret Music label. Also just in from that Midwestern metalcore band is the below Indy Nyles-directed music video for “Scarlet Psalm“. Nick Holland, vocalist for the outfit, stated of this release:
“Volume 2, in contrast to its counterpart that released earlier in the year, maintains its cynical nature but with an aggressive optimism in both sound and subject. We admittedly hadn’t had the full thing mapped out or written when volume 1 dropped but the response to it had us in the studio almost immediately with a frenetic energy we hadn’t experienced since we were teens. ‘Scarlet Psalm‘ is the bridge between the band’s sound we started with and where we’ve arrived today, carried by lyrics about the righteousness of martyrdom. All our mistakes we’ve made in the past and up to this point, and the chance we were still given by Ferret coalesces with the song’s final redemptive line. “Let me make this right.”
Holland also went on to speak of both chapters of this EP saga they began earlier this year now being combined into a singular release:
“The marriage of “They Promised Eden” Volume 1 and 2 as a singular release is like looking at a single photo of a living thing mid metamorphosis. The first half is where the band took its sharp turn and swung for the fences with an angry, violent recklessness in sound and design. And the second half is a sonic reflection of that choice and of our trajectory.
We’d only had a portion of a song and a half written when we signed to Ferret following Volume 1 and we didn’t know if we should continue on our path or deviate, but we ultimately chose to maintain with the confidence of our writing and as a nod to the earlier years as a band, include a re-recording of ‘Sleep a Cicada Would Envy‘ which seemed to still match the overall bleak, machine like tone. Though it’s a collection of ultimately two separate releases, it still feels like a singular release in concept and the pieces had always been intended to fit together that way.”
This latest EP includes the revamped version of their 2023 track “Sleep A Cicada Would Envy“, along with “Scarlet Psalm” and “Amber Waves Of Arson“. For physical copies, head over to ferretmusic.com.
