GRAVE PLEASURES: Music Video For New Track ‘High On Annihilation’ Launched
April 5th, 2023
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Finland-based death rock band Grave Pleasures have released a music video for the track ‘High On Annihilation’. Directed by David Fitt, the clip can be viewed below.
“I wrote the guitars and vocals for this one with Elvis Costello & The Attractions, This Year’s Model album (1978) in mind, that early Sisters Of Mercy / ‘Burning Up’ (1983) by Madonna drum machine vibe,” frontman Mat “Kvohst” McNerney said. “With some Roxy Music, Sparks & the R White’s Lemonade Advert from the 80s thrown in for good measure, and Buffalo Bill being our spirit animal for this record. The verse is very much inspired by QOTSA (Queens Of The Stone Age) – Era Vulgaris (2007) style Josh Homme riff like ‘Misfit Love’ or the badassery of ‘Battery Acid’ and that string tone of Jamie Hince from The Kills, giving way to the lush jeweled chorus with the conflicting clashing minor and major notes that put the pleasure in the grave. My first two albums in life were Licensed To Ill (Beastie Boys, 1986) and Michael Jackson’s Bad (1987) so there’s probably a red thread there of depravity. ‘High On Annihilation’ is recognizing that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, but giving in to it, accepting it and going out with a smile on your face.”
Grave Pleasures issue fourth full-length studio album Plagueboys on April 21st, 2023 through Century Media Records.
The music for Plagueboys was written by frontman Mat McNerney (Hexvessel / ex-Dødheimsgard) and guitarists Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu) and Aleksi Kiiskilä, and then arranged together with bassist Valtteri Arino and drummer Rainer Tuomikanto.
Recording sessions took place in Finland, and was produced by Vanhanen and Oranssi Pazuzu guitarist and bandmate Niko Lehdontie at the controls.
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Disintegration Girl’
02. ‘Heart Like A Slaughterhouse’
03. ‘When The Shooting’s Done’
04. ‘High On Annihilation’
05. ‘Lead Balloons’
06. ‘Imminent Collapse’
07. ‘Society Of Spectres’
08. ‘Conspiracy Of Love’
09. ‘Plagueboys’
10. ‘Tears On The Camera Lens’
Grave Pleasures’ line-up is as follows:
Mat “Kvohst” McNerney (vocals, Hexvessel / ex-Dødheimsgard)
Juho Vanhanen (guitars, Oranssi Pazuzu)
Aleksi Kiiskilä (guitars)
Valtteri Arino (bass)
Rainer Tuomikanto (drums)
Plagueboys will be made available in the following vinyl colours, including LP-sized booklet and poster; black, transparent blue (limited to 300 copies and exclusively available from CM Distro Wholesale EU and CMdistro.de), yellow (limited to 300 copies and exclusively available from UK outlets, Levykauppa Äx, and Nuclear Blast), and lilac (limited to 300 copies, and exclusively available from Grave Pleasures via Evil Greed.
Directed by Tekla Vály, a music video was filmed for the track ‘Society Of Spectres’. “This song walks down a dark and crooked path that transcends into a nightmarish blood disco layer,” guitarist Juho Vanhanen said. “That’s the place where all the ghouls gather to celebrate the downfall and feed on the masses.”
A music video was also filmed for the track ‘Heart Like A Slaughterhouse’, directed by David Fitt. “‘Heart Like A Slaughterhouse’, the go-to midnight hour dance track for crooked minds,” guitarist and songwriter Aleksi Kiiskilä said. “Hooks you dive into head-first psycho-hypnotic frenzy and Buffalo Bill – influenced disco moves.
“After playing at Wave Gotik Treffen a few years back, I was impressed by all those creative costumes and their uncanny, sinister details. It felt like being in some apocalyptic, gothic steampunk city where everything’s messed up, with that being all normal. So, the morning after our show, basically out of nowhere popped up this riff and the driving beat for ‘Heart Like A Slaughterhouse’, where the confidence of Eliminator meets Virus-like psychotic hooks. Something that feels wrong and right at the same time, something addictive and macabre which makes you move around your room like some broken manikin.”
Third studio record Motherblood was released in September 2017 via Century Media.
Promotional photograph by Tekla Vály.
