Black ‘n’ Roll? Dark Metal? Chaos Metal? Egal, wie man den Sound der Schweden von THE VICE charakterisiert, eigenständig, dreckig, kalt und manchmal brachial ist das Soundgebräu allemal, nachzuhören auf dem letztjährigen Dreher „Dead Canary Run„. Heute präsentiert das Quartett den Opener und Titeltrack ihres neuen Fünf-Track-Kurzplayers „A Great Unrest“, der am 07. März erscheinen soll. Dieser enthält zwei weitere neue Songs, das Miley Cyrus Cover `1 Sun´ sowie eine umarrangierte Version von `Welcome The Storm´ vom o. g. aktuellen Album.
Gitarrist Rickard über den Track:
„To me, ‚A Great Unrest‘ is everything that The Vice is all about, boiled down to its purest form. One sinister fucking riff, a couple of choruses trembling with fierceness, passion and rebellion, and a final act to release all that built up tension in a beautiful, yet most ominous way. All in under three and a half minute, really think we obliterated every head of every nail with this one.“
Die Band fügt hinzu:
„Thematically there wasn’t any other ideas, thoughts, than usual when entering the studio. The Vice is, has always been, and will forever be about unrest, rebellion, those mixed feelings of unease and ecstacy when balancing on the last inches of the edge, about to plunge into the void. Some songs here and there have more specific themes, but in general it’s reflections and ideas about this existence from a quite calm, gathered perspective though always prepared, anticipating the moment when the tension breaks and the unknown madness begins. Somewhere along the way the visual representations like the cover art, music video, title etc all started to lean towards some kind of cold war aesthetics. This was absolutely not intentional, never discussed and nothing we’d naturally turn to. Sure some things led to the other, but at least some of it feels like the music just had an inherent vibe of that, cold, metallic, bleak, post-war vibe.“
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EP Trackliste:
01. A Great Unrest
02. From The Barricades
03. Tropic Of Coal
04. 1 Sun
05. Welcome The Storm feat Linn (Z Edit)