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Atmospheric coldwave act Blacklist has dropped another track, "Nightbound", from the upcoming album, Afterworld, set for release on 28 October via Profound Lore Records.
Strachan on "Nightbound": "We wrote the first four new songs that informed the direction of Afterworld in June of 2021. I was coming off a spring Queensrÿche binge and into the summer listening constantly to the most recent Vain record. I'd bought an old ESP guitar online, and I was learning lots of classic Dokken and Iron Maiden tunes in my basement in Virginia. You can really hear all this on 'Nightbound'. I had this vague idea, inspired by Maiden's Somewhere In Time, of doing a guitar synth record. Something that had always been missing from the early Blacklist stuff was synth - we were, after all, on Wierd Records at the time! I tried an old Korg, but this was one case where analogue and vintage weren't better. I landed on the Meris Enzo pedal, which proved really inspirational. Suddenly playing these Jake E. Lee-type riffs sounded like Simple Minds - which couldn't be more Blacklist... Lyrically, it pulls together a couple of things - firstly, it's a 'band of outsiders' anthem which has always been something we've taken from metal as much as from bands like Suede, and cast in a heavily political light. Secondly, in the same way Language Of The Living Dead embraced Slavoj Zizek's use of this horror trope to talk about communication, this one embraces cyberfeminist Donna Haraway's description of the vampire as, '…the one who pollutes lineages on the wedding night; the one that effects category transformations by illegitimate passages of substance; the one who drinks and infuses blood in a paradigmatic act of infecting whatever poses as pure'. I love this because the rising forces of fascism adore pure lineages and hate category transformations. So here the gangs we imagine from films like The Lost Boys or Near Dark can be thought of as a nightbound brood of blood corrupters".
Welcome to listen to "Nightbound" and the other three released singles - right below. Link
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