Amid his present “Summer season Blood Storm” European tour, Wednesday 13 has simply dropped a delightfully deathly music video for “Mid Loss of life Disaster” observe “Rotting Away”. The Duke of Spook goes on a date with the useless, picnicking with a petrified soul! Watch the brand new music video beneath.
Wednesday 13 feedback on “Rotting Away”: “I am placing the enjoyable again in funeral with our new video for ‘Rotting Away’.
“I had such a good time filming this and needed to do one thing enjoyable, campy, and completely different from the opposite band efficiency movies. Impressed by the unique ‘Night time Of The Residing Useless’ movie, Tom Petty‘s video ‘Final Dance With Mary Jane’ together with a bit ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ thrown into this.”
“Mid Loss of life Disaster” got here out on April 25 through Napalm Information.
In a current interview with Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, Wednesday 13 was requested if paying tribute to his former band MURDERDOLLS on a number of excursions in 2023 and 2024 influenced the songwriting course of for “Mid Loss of life Disaster”. He responded: “100%. Simply revisiting that music and having that contemporary on my thoughts once I began writing, that is what I wrote. So I wrote a punk, glam, onerous rock document. This is not a metallic document. In all probability the heaviest music on the album is ‘When The Satan Instructions’; that’s as heavy metallic because it will get. From that time on, it is just about a rock and roll document. So, yeah, that is what influenced that. And that is what I began off doing. This document’s extra in league with my first three than my final three albums. And it is loopy ‘trigger my first album turns 20 years previous this April. So, I form of deliberate this album to return out the identical month, the identical time, 20 years later — album quantity 10 comes out 20 years later, identical month. So it is form of simply to indicate how far I’ve got here since then or how far I’ve went or nonetheless you wanna say it. However I am nonetheless right here and I believe I nonetheless do it fairly good.”
Wednesday 13 beforehand described “Mid Loss of life Disaster” as a enjoyable, campy, “leave-your-brain-at-the-door” rager and a real return to his hard-rocking roots. Produced by guitarist Alex Kane (LIFE, SEX & DEATH, ENUFF Z’NUFF, ANTIPRODUCT) and blended by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, PRONG, DEVILDRIVER) the album oozes infectious Nineteen Eighties sleaze metallic vitality, additional accented by a blitzing visitor vocal from FASTER PUSSYCAT‘s Taime Downe.
Eerie introductory observe “There’s No Such Factor As Monsters” vibrates with electrical energy earlier than industrial-tinged “Decease And Desist” kicks in full blast. Wednesday 13‘s trademark crooning wastes no time coming into the fold as he careens by the high-octane horror anthem, earlier than tracks like “Rotting Away” and “Blood Storm” ensnare with metallic goth-punk vitality that may have crowds transferring wall to wall. That includes FASTER PUSSYCAT‘s Taime Downe on visitor vocals, standout heavy rocker “No Apologies” is a fast-romping exorcism of poisonous demons, whereas the triumphant mini-murder ballad “Decapitation” riles up listeners with a catchy lead riff earlier than making a tough left right into a theatrical bridge straight out of a sinister ’60s sock hop! Ragers like “In Distress”, “Xanaxtasy” and “Sick And Violent” discover varied genres of metallic, injecting the album with components of gripping heaviness for any listener, whereas downtempo stunners “I Harm You” and “My Funeral” method a extra pensive territory.
WEDNESDAY 13 is:
Wednesday 13 – Lead Vocals / Guitar
Jack Tankersley – Guitar
Troy Doebbler – Bass
Mike Dupke – Drums
Ashes – Lead Guitar
Picture credit score: Anabel DFlux