The single Welcome To Hell, for instance, tells the story of a shell-shocked soldierʼs excess and military discharge. Youʼre never quite sure whether to laugh at or be horrified. There are direct dramatic monologues, flamboyantly appealing to our degraded sense of right and wrong. Whereas the stories of Cavalcade were told in third person, Hellfire is presented in first-person and tells the tales of morally suspect characters. It is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet. As Greep describes it: “If Cavalcade was a drama, Hellfire is like an epic action film” that delves into overlapping themes of pain, loss and anguish. Written in isolation in London after the release of last yearʼs Cavalcade, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut Schlagenheim. trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums). T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Hellfire is the third studio album from Black Midi, the U.K.
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