Legendary independent New York-based rock label Equal Vision Records and HAIL THE SUN are excited to announce the release of “cut. turn. fade. back.”, the brand new, highly-anticipated studio album from the acclaimed experimental California-based rock band. Produced & engineered by Pete Adams and GRAMMY® Award Winner Johnny Kosich of Beach Noise (Kendrick Lamar), and mixed & mastered by Zakk Cervini (Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon, Coheed and Cambria), “cut. turn. fade. back.” truly finds HAIL THE SUN going the distance, encompassing the complete cycle of life with its four monosyllabic words. An album touching on topics such as military atrocities, humanitarian crises, addiction, lost love and death, the 11 songs presented here capture the cyclical nature of all those things, as well as life itself in general. Watch the video for the album’s latest single “Relapse Is A Love Affair” directed by Jesse Korman.
HAIL THE SUN are also currently touring North America on its co-headline run with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME. Having recently headlined its own “kill iconic Fest” in San Antonio, TX on Sunday, October 5, the current tour will culminate in an appearance at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC next Thursday, October 30. The band will also be making an appearance at k”ill iconic Presents: A Weekend At Chain Reaction” in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, November 29, an evening that will also feature performances by kill iconic labelmates Kurt Travis, Moondough, Mella and Vis.
“Cut. turn. fade. back.” tracklisting:
- The Drooling Class
- There’s No Place in Heaven for Fakes
- Live Forever
- Insensitive Tempo
- Blight
- Consumed With You
- I Can Tell By the Scars
- Building Code
- Relapse Is a Love Affair
- Rightless Destiny
- War Crimes
Anybody familiar with HAIL THE SUN will know there’s always a great deal of meaning beneath the surface. Theirs are songs that probe the very nature of existence, that strive to find the answers to the fundamental questions that being human raises, and that don’t flinch away from any form of self-reflection whatsoever. That’s been the case since the band—lead vocalist Donovan Melero, guitarists Shane Gann and Aric Garcia, bassist John Stirrat and drummer Allen Casillas—formed in Chico, CA in 2009, but which is especially the case on “cut. turn. fade. back.”, their seventh full-length.
From the moment the post-hardcore lilt of “The Drooling Class” kicks this record off until the passionate intensity of “War Crimes” brings it to an end in a cacophony that emulates the violent conflicts that inspired it, “cut. turn. fade. back.” becomes part of the band’s own cycle—re-establishing who they are while simultaneously (but subtly) reshaping their identity. Just listen to the spiteful, coruscating energy of “There’s No Place In Heaven For Fakes”, the shapeshifting, surround-sound production of “Insensitive Tempo” and “Blight”, and the almost constant crescendo of “I Can Tell By The Scars” and it’s clear that HAIL THE SUN are as intentional and fervent about their art as they ever have been.
“It doesn’t matter if people take away the intended message from these songs,” says Melero, “and I’m certainly not going to police it, but we do, as always, want to encourage critical thinking. Fifteen years in, I love that we’ve been allowed to have this growing fan base to speak to. I feel very grateful and fortunate, and I hope that it keeps carrying us forward and continues to be the thing that we can sustain life from.”
