“Thereʼs a lot of love and things like that on Hellfire,” says Picton. Thereʼs loads!”Įlsewhere, the mysterious military mining corporation behind Cavalcade’s Diamond Stuff reappears in Pictonʼs new song Eat Men Eat, and some of his best lyrics appear on the forcefully sweet Still, Hellfireʼs least abstract, most lyrically personal song. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer who portrays a Satan interfering in peopleʼs lives. I donʼt believe in Hell, but all that old world folly is great for songs, Iʼve always loved movies and anything else with a depiction of Hell. “Almost everything I write is from a true thing, something I experienced and exaggerated and wrote down.
“Almost everyone depicted is a kind of scumbag,” says Greep. The track is soundtracked by funky guitar sections, driving horns and a progressively snarling vocal. Deafening howls of motorcycle engines linger all around, accompanied by a medley of languages - all slurred, coarse, hoarse and evasive of any true emotion, leaving the soldier unable to handle the world in which he finds himself. It is night erratic men rush up and down the strip in various stages of inebriation, neon signs light up the bars, and out of their open doors waft wisps of indeterminate smoke. The setting is a far-off military campaign - an exotic coastal town commandeered by the invading army and swarming with soldiers. 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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