EXTREME Premiere ‘Thicker Than Blood’ Music Video
November 21st, 2023
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American hard rock band Extreme have released a music video for the track ‘Thicker Than Blood’. Directed by Nuno Bettencourt and Rene Rigal, the clip can be viewed below.
Regarding the video, the band stated: “With ‘Thicker Than Blood’ we wanted to shoot a video that celebrates the fifth and most important member of the band. Our fans. So we shot it from the fans point of view. No matter how great a band believes they are… you cannot achieve your dreams of touring the world and doing what you love the most, performing, without your fans. It’s the most important relationship in our career.”
Extreme issued sixth full-length studio album Six on June 9th, 2023 through earMUSIC.
Six was recorded at the home studio of guitarist Nuno Bettencourt in Los Angeles, California.
“With Extreme, there’s always a lot of passion and a little piss and vinegar,” commented frontman Gary Cherone. “We’re not in competition with anybody else, but we strive to outdo ourselves. There are some moments on this album where we did. We’ve managed to stay together after all of these years. We feel like we have something to prove when we get on stage or in the studio. Because of that, I believe some of these songs are among the best we’ve written.”
“Whatever you think an Extreme album is after two or even three songs, it’s not,” added Bettencourt. “That goes for every record we’ve ever done. True Extreme fans know to ‘expect the unexpected.’ I feel like we need a good old school rock album. Six is definitely modern, but you can put on headphones and go on a journey from top-to-bottom. It’s like ‘Extreme 2.0’.”
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘Rise’
02. ‘#Rebel’
03. ‘Banshee’
04. ‘Other Side Of The Rainbow’
05. ‘Small Town Beautiful’
06. ‘The Mask’
07. ‘Thicker Than Blood’
08. ‘Save Me’
09. ‘Hurricane’
10. ‘X Out’
11. ‘Beautiful Girls’
12. ‘Here’s To The Losers’
Extreme’s line-up is as follows:
Gary Cherone (vocals, ex-Van Halen)
Nuno Bettencourt (guitars)
Pat Badger (bass)
Kevin Figueiredo (drums)
Directed by Nuno Bettencourt and Rene Rigal music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Rise’, ‘Banshee’, ‘#Rebel’, ‘Other Side Of The Rainbow’, ‘The Mask’ and ‘Hurricane’. All six clips can also be viewed below.
Fifth studio record Saudades de Rock was released in August 2008 via Frontiers Music Srl in Europe, with release elsewhere taking place through Fontana.
Promotional photograph by Jesse Lirola.
