After teasing fans with some cryptic clues earlier in the week, Northlane have confirmed fan speculations today, releasing a scathing new track Vultures.
The song confronts the barrage of expectation and criticism frontman Marcus Bridge received when he picked up the microphone in 2014 saying in a statment, “The main message is not having to live up to someone’s expectations or live within someone’s idea of what you should be”.
“It stems from a built-up number of things over the last few years that comes with people expecting what we are supposed to sound like as a band since I’ve come on board.
“A lot of that stuff that has given us this feeling to want to talk about it. It’s important to be true to yourself and not let anyone mould you in a way that isn’t the way you want to be.
“Just being able to talk about this subject at a point in time where I see Northlane as being our band now, I don’t feel like the new guy anymore. It feels like we are finally doing us and it’s all feeling a lot more natural.”
Northlane released their last album Mesmer in 2017 which debuted at #3 on the ARIA Chart and earned the band their second ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal album.
Check out the track below.
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