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Dark Essence Records has announced that Vulture Industries will be making a very welcome return to the label's roster and that preparations are underway for the release of the band's fifth full-length, Ghosts From The Past, due on 16 June. The upcoming album's first track and video, "New Lords Of Light", has just been released, and it is available in the player below.
The band's Bjørnar Erevik Nilsen gave us an insight into how the track evolved: "Starting life with the working title 'For Roky', I felt that this one had a haunting feel reminiscent of Roky Erickson. This was back during the pandemic summer of 2021, and I remember listening to early versions of the track in my car whilst driving up and down the west coast with my kids in the back. Processing the track in this way probably had a defining influence on the final result, so in the end, it turned out upbeat and energetic, yet bound in a sombre atmosphere somehow reminiscent of the 80s".
Given that Ghosts From The Past was written at a time when the band was undergoing considerable changes in their personal lives, as well as the changes wrought by the pandemic, the album inevitably took longer than normal to write. Whilst feeling lost and struggling to find a sense of direction, the combined process of writing and production proved to be the longest to date for Vulture Industries.
The end result, however, is Vulture Industries' strongest album to date, because Ghosts From The Past represents what is essentially a piece of their soul. It succeeds in mirroring all that was going on around it and reflects the fear of a world spinning out of control, and the sense of powerlessness in the face of a world order that is falling apart. Only to be replaced by old ideas imposed by autocratic warlords with no goal in mind other than their own power and legacy.
Rising from out of the ashes of the goth band Dead Rose Garden in 2003, Vulture Industries established a lineup formed of Bjørnar Erevik Nilsen on vocals and keys, Eivind Huse on guitars and vocals, Øyvind Madsen on guitars, Kyrre Teigen on bass and vocals, and Tor Helge Gjengedal on drums. It was a lineup that gelled right from the outset and has remained unchanged for two decades. Link
Ghosts From The Past tracklist:
1. New Lords of Light
2. Saturn Devouring His Young
3. This Hell is Mine
4. Deeper
5. Right Here in the Dark
6. A Strangers Curse
7. Tyrants Weep Alone
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