Band: Northlane
Song: “Vultures”
Release Date: July 12th, 2018 (digital); September 14th, 2018 (7″)
Label: UNFD
The band said in a statement:
“We’ve had a relatively quiet year of touring, and while we have enjoyed our time at home we haven’t been able to sit still. This brief respite of tranquillity was invigorating for us and that inspiration led to the creation of ‘Vultures’. We returned to our roots and self-produced this song in Western Sydney with the help of some old friends. It was an uncompromising process, nothing is more valuable to any of us than being true to ourselves. We hope you’ll find your own meaning in these words and scream them back at us even louder.”
Additionally, frontman Marcus Bridge offered:
“The main message is not having to live up to someone’s expectations or live within someone’s idea of what you should be. It stems from a built-up number of things over the last few years that comes with people expecting what we are supposed to sound like as a band since I’ve come on board. A lot of that stuff that has given us this feeling to want to talk about it. It’s important to be true to yourself and not let anyone mould you in a way that isn’t the way you want to be. Just being able to talk about this subject at a point in time now where I see Northlane as being our band now, I don’t feel like the new guy anymore. It feels like we are finally doing us and it’s all feeling a lot more natural.”
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