The official music video for “Turn The Tide”, the new single from long-running heavy metal titans SATAN, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, “Songs In Crimson”, which is due on September 13 via Metal Blade Records.
SATAN's history is storied, their albums and incendiary live shows iconic. The Newcastle, England-bred lineup may quip that their career has been “forty-four years of prolonged mayhem with a twenty-year lunch break” — forming in 1980, eventually pausing before reuniting in 2011 — but circa 2024 finds the band thriving, writing, recording, and touring at the top of their game.
Proof positive is their seventh studio album and third for Metal Blade, “Songs In Crimson”. If 2022's “Earth Infernal” album was brutal, up-tempo and with loud guitars, guitarist Russ Tippins calls “Songs In Crimson” “concise. It’s more to-the-point and gets there quicker. One of the reasons behind the album title is that this record is very ‘song’ focused. There’s more punch this time around. Each chorus speaks for itself.” With influences from KING CRIMSON to MERCYFUL FATE, SATAN's own stylings remain unique, the band's NWOBHM origins a springboard for musical and lyrical creativity, commentary, and nonconformity.
While “Songs In Crimson” features lyrics including “a once-great nation is going down” and “this is the end of an era,” SATAN offers no quick fix. “There is always hope; solutions are not for us musicians to proclaim,” Tippins believes. “Each song has its own different theme. While there is no title track as such, the song ‘Deadly Crimson’, which is an anti-capitalism narrative, is as close as it gets to that. As a concept, making money from money is fatally flawed in that it depends on constant growth,” Tippins says. “But constant growth is obviously impossible; a conveyor belt of sacrificial lambs.”
Tippins continues, “‘Turn The Tide’ is the classic ‘King Canute’ scenario — the deluded head of state who believes himself to be divine and sets out to prove it by standing in front of the sea and ordering the waves to retreat. They don’t of course. We are kind of using that as an allegory to illustrate the ridiculous standpoint of certain Jingoistic Brits who believe that foreigners have no place in our country. It’s the shortest song on the album. And also the fastest!”
“Songs In Crimson” was produced by the band and Dave Curle of First Avenue Studios who also engineered, mixed, and mastered the record.
“Songs In Crimson” will be released on jewel case CD (USA),digipak CD (EU),and digital formats as well as spined sleeve vinyl with insert, poster and download card in the following color variants:
Transparent Pigeon Blue Marbled (US) 180g Black (EU) Dark Crimson Red Marbled (EU) Steel Grey Marbled (EU - Ltd. 500) Pale Yellow Marbled (EU - Ltd. 300) Clear w/ Red & White Splatter (EU - Ltd. 300) Clear w/ Black, Red & Gold Splatter (Ltd. 200 – Excl. Band Edition)
Pre-order at metalblade.com/satan. Artwork by Eliran Kantor.
Tracklisting:
“Frantic Zero” “Era (The Day Will Come)” “Whore Of Babylon” “Sacramental Rites” “Martyrdom” “Turn The Tide” “Captives” “Curse In Disguise” “Truth Bullet” “Deadly Crimson”
SATAN will spend September roadbound on a month-long European tour. The journey begins with seven dates through the UK and Ireland with special guests, Seven Sisters followed by a stop at Pyrenean Warriors Open Air Fest in Torreilles, France. From there, the band will wind their way through sixteen more cities throughout Europe alongside Haunt and Hellfire. Tickets are on sale now.
Dates:
September (with Seven Sisters) 4 - Manchester, UK - The Bred Shed 5 - Newcastle, UK - The Cluny 6 - Glasgow, Scotland - The Flying Duck 7 - Belfast, Ireland - Voodoo 8 - Dublin, Ireland - Grand Social 11 - London, England - Boston Music Room 12 - Brighton, England - Daltons
September 14 - Torreilles, France - Pyrenean Warriors Open Air September (with Haunt and Hell Fire) 15 - Milan, Italy - Metalitalia Festival 16 - Munchen, Germany - Backstage 17 - Zagreb, Croatia - Klub Mocvara 18 - Wien, Austria - Escape 19 - Linz, Austria - Steel City Sorcery 20 - Selb, Germany - Rockclub Nordbayern 21 - Warsaw, Poland - Odessa 22 - Ostrava, Czech Republic - Barrak 23 - Nurnberg, Germany - Der Hirsch 24 - Bochum, Germany - Trompete 25 - Oldenburg, Germany - MTS 26 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Beta 27 - Hamburg, Germany - Bambi Galore 28 - Bielefeld, Germany - JZ Stricker 29 - Gent, Belgium - Asgaard 30 - Tilburg, Netherlands - Little Devil
Satan are:
Brian Ross - vocals Russ Tippins - guitars Steve Ramsey - guitars Graeme English - bass Sean Taylor - drums
(Photo - Stefan Rosic)
