Chicago’s self-proclaimed “neo-barbarians,” Prepared for Dying, are able to smash your face in (metaphorically) with new album Pay With Your Face. Coming only a handful of years after their eponymous debut, Pay With Your Face is an authorized assbeater, such as you’ll hear on the title monitor, streaming beneath.
“Pay With Your Face” sees Prepared for Dying lean additional into their punk-influenced pressure of demise/thrash, mixing in flavors of Excessive on Hearth, Black Flag and Eyehategod for good measure.
“Lyrically, ‘Pay With Your Face’ is supposed to replicate a world the place identification and worth are boiled right down to biometric knowledge,” says vocalist Artie White. “On this dystopian current we’re all making an attempt to outlive in, our faces are scanned, monetized, and tracked without end. So, what seems to be like progress is absolutely an erasure of self. Individuality is barely helpful for commerce, and your precise face is lowered to forex in a system constructed for management, revenue, and ongoing Planetary Conflict.
“Just like the title monitor, the entire album will get into how society retains sliding deeper into convenience-driven give up. We voluntarily (and suicidally) hand over our freedom and identification. It’s fashionable sorcery minus the promise of energy or wealth; only a spell we solid on one another that regularly melts us down for uncooked supplies. Willingly buying and selling our important humanity for a future that’s collapsing proper in entrance of us.”
Accompanying the brand new monitor is a video by Kris Baldwin, which actually underscores the hellish, dystopian vibes depicted within the tune. Test it out beneath and seize Pay With Your Face through Translation Loss earlier than its June 27 launch.
