Loathe’s new EP ‘Lambs To The Slaughter’ – OUT NOW

So that’s it folks, after months of hard work, writing, rewriting,learning, practicing, demoing, recording, re-recording, tracking, double tracking, quad tracking (there’s a joke in there for fellow recording geeks), editing, mastering and even a bit of gigging thrown into the mix for good measure, it is our extreme pleasure to present to you our latest, brand new EP by name of Lambs To The Slaughter.

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered the Lambs To The Slaughter EP and everyone who emailed us or sent a message on Facebook telling us that they’re looking forward to the EP or even that they’ve already heard it and loved it. We appreciate it all very much! Thanks also to anyone who bought the EP on the day of the launch and everyone else who’s buying it now!

You can listen to the EP below and you can buy it on Bandcamp, just by clicking through below. It’s only €6, so it costs less than a coffee a day for a week would. Please do consider buying it; independent bands have it hard already, independent metal bands in Malta more so.

We would also like to thank anyone who’s been helpful or instrumental in any way in the making of this album including our producer David Vella at Temple Studios, fellow producer and all round studio guy Cedric Vella, Cedric Vella once again for the awesome video he directed for our single ‘Bucketlove’, Cedric’s crew, Clint Tabone for helping us out with artwork for Lambs To The Slaughter and our ever patient wives and girlfriends.

If you own a magazine, website, extreme music zine, label or what have you and would like  a digital copy of the EP for review, evaluation or whatever, please get in touch on our Contact Page and we’ll accomodate you. Cheers!


The Dark Design Tour-Day 4

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!


One day away…

…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.


All about Despondent By Design

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 :-P 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


First track from Despondent By Design is now online!

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