UK electro-goth outfit History Of Guns is back with a new album, Half Light, scheduled for release on 20 June via Liquid Len Recording Company. The band has just shared the first taste, "No Longer Earthbound", of its upcoming eighth album. The song is about leaving the planet (through space travel, virtual reality or death), and about recalibrating our thoughts away from our problems and looking at a more global and cosmic picture.
Max Rael on "No Longer Earthbound": "This is a song about shifting focus away from this planet and to other places or realities. The existentialist question about why worry about saving the planet and endangered species when ultimately life will be unlivable on Earth in 1.3 billion years? If everything ends anyway, where else could we go? We pictured escaping the planet either through space travel, virtual reality or death. It is also about what we choose to leave behind as we shed one existence and go looking for another. That's not to say History Of Guns don't care about the planet. We recycle! Though apparently most of it ends up in landfill anyway".
After going on hiatus in 2012, the band returned in 2022 with a new album, Forever Dying In Your Eyes, then set about finishing an electronic project they'd begun in 2008. The result is the Half Light album, produced by Max Rael and mixed by Max Rael and Caden Clarkson with mastering by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, J&MC, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails). Link
HISTORY OF GUNS - To Release New Album In June; First Single/Visualizer Out Now
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