MOTIONLESS IN WHITE will release its new album, “Scoring The End Of The World”, on June 10 via Roadrunner Records. The LP’s third single, “Slaughterhouse”, featuring a guest appearance by KNOCKED LOOSE‘s Bryan Garris, can be streamed below.
Building on the anticipation for “Scoring The End Of The World”, “Slaughterhouse” follows the previously released singles “Masterpiece” and “Cyberhex”, the official videos for which quickly trended Top 10 on YouTube and have since amassed over six million views. Furthermore, “Masterpiece” continues to grow at the Active Rock radio format, jumping into the Top 30 this week and continuing to grow in audience.
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE frontman Chris “Motionless” Cerulli stated about “Masterpiece”: “‘Masterpiece’ is a song which I feel embodies the raw and brutally honest nature of what makes MOTIONLESS IN WHITE. It took me many years to fully recognize that these are the types of songs that truly are the lifeblood of the relationship between the band and our fans. There is something really powerful and magical in being able to write a song that not only expresses your own deepest emotions and feelings, but to write something that may express the feelings of those who find it hard to articulate their own at times. It is on another level of special. In my own experience as a listener, these types of songs have always offered comfort amidst the pain, and ‘Masterpiece’ is my way of returning that energy back to the universe for others to potentially find and carry with them. We’re all going through something dark in our heads on a daily basis, so why not go through it together?”
“Masterpiece” hinges on ominous clean guitars as Chris delivers a heart-wrenching refrain asking, “So how do I apologize and put the tears back in your eyes?” In the visual, the band delivers a performance in an abandoned home, sifting through discarded memories of a past life before a final blaze burns it all down.
In March, the Scranton, Pennsylvania quintet shared the first single “Cyberhex”, along with an official music video directed by the band’s guitarist Ricky Olson and Logan Beaver.
In an interview with Rock 100.5 The KATT‘s Cameron Buchholtz, Chris stated about “Cyberhex”: “We were trying to decide what was the first song, and it was interesting that everybody in the band all felt the same way. Normally when you’re working with labels, they wanna put out the song that’s like the big radio song or the easier digestible track, whatever, and we just never really wanted to do that. And even though there were moments when we’ve been, unfortunately, kind of forced to do that, this time I feel like we’re in a spot in our career where we’re just, like, ‘No. We’re gonna go ahead and do what we want.’ And we had a good track record of doing what we want versus what other people influence us to want to do, and this song is definitely on pace to really help the album and the whole rollout. So it feels really cool.
“The next track we put out will definitely be more like ‘Another Life’ and ‘Voices’-type track,” he continued, apparently referencing “Masterpiece”. “I can understand why a label would want that, because if you look at our… Just go to Spotify — I mean, ‘Another Life’ and ‘Voices’… ‘Another Life’ has double the amount of plays as the next highest song, which is ‘Voices’, and then the next highest song is ‘Brand New Numb’. So, very obviously, people can say that they want the heavy tracks and we’re going to deliver that, but the songs like ‘Another Life’ are really, at this point, I guess you would say our bread and butter, ’cause that’s what people want. So, for us, it’s, like, let’s start it off really hot and really heavy and then we’ll switch over to the more, like, here’s the singalong track that just hits you hard and… We’ll take a little break from the heavy. And we’ll circulate back. That’s what we do.”
When “Cyberhex” was first released, Cerulli said: “‘Cyberhex’ is my love letter to you, our fans, for everything you have done for me over the course of some of the most mentally taxing few years I’ve had to go through. At times where I felt like my world was ending, as well as the world around us, it was always in my mind that I was able to turn to the special relationship we have created together for help, and I cannot thank you enough for that. Outside of my own personal experiences, it has been equally as fulfilling to me to see that in the face of tireless forces that continue to try and perpetuate hatred and negativity towards so many of us coexisting on this planet, we have all stood together to resist and fight back knowing that love and compassion will always prevail. We ARE the resistance. We ARE Cyberhex. I love you. Thank you.”
“Scoring The End Of The World” fully encompasses the expanse of MOTIONLESS IN WHITE‘s dynamic, deep, and dark vision, and marks the band’s first full-length body of work in three years since 2019’s “Disguise”. The latter has quietly made a major impact on rock music and culture. The single “Another Life” stands out as their most-streamed song ever with over 23 million YouTube views on the music video. The record claimed a spot on Loudwire‘s “50 Best Metal Albums of 2019,” plus it ignited the creative renaissance that would set the stage for the statement-making “Scoring The End Of The World”.
Having recently wrapped its massively successful triple co-headline “Trinity Of Terror” tour with BLACK VEIL BRIDES and ICE NINE KILLS, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE is set to make several U.S. festival appearances this year with anticipated performances slated for Sacramento, California’s Aftershock festival (October 7) and Las Vegas, Nevada’s When We Were Young festival (October 22, October 23, October 29). Additional upcoming international dates for MOTIONLESS IN WHITE include a summer run in Australia with I PREVAIL and then a 2023 European tour with BEARTOOTH.
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