Loathe

Today was Press Day. We slept in at Jake’s, got some coffee and went to The Bear in (surprise surprise) Bearwood, in Birmingham. There we met Chop, from chopmusic.co.uk, who interviewed us at length and got some pictures. He was really great, and asked some really pertinent questions.

After that, we raced across town to get to Kerrang central! There we were met by Johnny Doom, formerly of the band Doom and a celebrity DJ for Kerrang. The guy was awesome and asked smart questions during the segment too. He spoke of the new album and the tour and in general was very friendly and very, very knowledgeable in his metal, obviously!

The segment will be available on the Kerrang website soon, but until that, you can enjoy some photos of us in the Kerrang building below!

…from our tour in England! We leave Saturday (early, very early) morning, and head to Manchester. After that, a long drive to Leicester and much hilarity in the van awaits us.

In anticipation of the madness that will soon unfold, we are going to give you a new song from our album Despondent By Design. This one is called This Respect.

Enjoy!

PS: Check back soon. We’ll be updating this space on the road.

Before anything else is said, we’d like to thank you all for the phenomenal response we got from you since we uploaded the first song from our new album, Despondent By Design. Be it on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace, you guys have quite simply rocked our world with your awesome comments! Thank you very much! We shall have a new song for you very soon.

Back to the album, this is some info about it.

It is called Despondent By Design, has 10 tracks on it and shall have a total run time of 41 minutes. The tracklist is as follows:

1. Hellfire
2. As Cold As They Come
3. November
4. The Devil’s Playground
5. Black Light
6. Children Of A Lesser God
7. This Respect
8. This Overwhelming Grasp Of Solitude
9. The Dark Diaries
10. The End Of All Things Good

Lyrically, this is what the songs are about:

• Hellfire deals with the story of a couple who push the boundaries of an unholy relationship and suffer the consequences thereafter.
• As Cold As They Come speaks of the abuse of a partner in a relationship, laying the blame on them for leaving, inventing faults and then leaving them hung out to dry
• November speaks of the loss of a dear person, Jade, in the month of November, of things planned and turned to shit and the regret and sadness from this untimely departure.
• The Devil’s Playground is the place we find ourselves in so many times, the crossroads of indecision, generally after betrayal and trying to take a next step with someone else after it’s over.
• Black Light is about the end of one’s life. Some people see death as dark, macabre and unwanted, but for others, though black, it’s also a guiding light.
• Children Of A Lesser God treats the endless cycle of physical and sexual abuse and that which stems from it.
• This Respect is about people who use the word respect as a punchline without ever getting into the merits of what respecting others really means.
• This Overwhelming Grasp Of Solitude is about the sense of despair one gets when they feel they are not understood even by the people closest to them and whom they love.
• The Dark Diaries is a dialogue between a shrink and a patient, in which the shrink repeats that it’s not so bad and it could be worse, while the patient screams that this simply isn’t good enough, this is not what he/she wants to hear, this does not lessen my pain.
• The End Of All Things Good speaks of a vendetta carried down through generations, owing to an a horrid act carried out long ago yet never spoken of or atoned for.

And speaking of the end of all things good, I think that’s more than enough positive vibes for the day I’ll leave you with our track Black Light for our enjoyment once again, and the promise of more new stuff soon!

Black Light by loathe

Hey again everyone! We are now precisely 24 days away from going on tour and we are really looking forward to it! The flyer is online in the previous post, however, here are the dates in text format, come check us out if you will.

24th October, Leicester, Exiles @ Redeemer w/Spirytus

25th October, Neath (Wales), The Duke

26th October, Stourbridge, Katie Fitzgeralds, w/Godsize

28th October, Wakefield, The Snooty Fox

29th October, Manchester, The Star & Garter, w/MWP

30th October, Wolverhampton, The Giffard Arms

31st October, The Unicorn, Camden, London, w/Nebukadnezza & many more!

01 November, Birmingham, Scruffy Murphy’s, w/Morgue Orgy

As a special bonus (not really, this is something we’ve promised for some time now, the new song is below in our soundcloud player. The song is called Black Light and is the first to be published from our new album “Despondent By Design”. Said album should be released soon.

Hope you like what you hear! Later amigos…..

Black Light by loathe

Plenty of new things in the Loathe camp. By end of this month we should have quite a few of the items on this list:

New album (we are listening to the unmastered mix right now, and it sounds sickeningly good. Not blowing our own trumpet here, we’re just in love with how it sounds, and very satisfied too!)

New video (y’know, snippets of our idiocy at the studio while recording the album) New website (which should be like a town centre to all our profiles across a bunch of sites. Pretty cool looking so far. Still coding right now, but promise to have it online soon)

New tour dates (we do have them, we just need to get moving on a flyer, and then all the dates will be published. UK be warned)

New gig (yeah that doesn’t sound right does it? Anyway, we figure we ought to play live at least once every six months in Malta, so once the damn summer tapers off and things chill a little, get ready to see our drunken selves on stage)

That’s pretty much it for now! We’ll be touch with a checklist of what’s done soon!

Looking forward to seeing you all!

love

the Loathe boys