Photo Credit: Andy Ford
Having got their black summer underway with the slithering gothic sleaze of their recent single ‘Cry To Heaven’, and a triumphant surprise headline set at Download Festival, Creeper today unveil their new single ‘Teenage Sacrifice’. The track is the second from their vampiric new album Sanguivore, due for release on Friday 13th October via Spinefarm. Sanguivore is the follow-up to their Top 5 album Sex, Death & The Infinite Void.
Check out the video for 'Teenage Sacrifice' here: https://youtu.be/LDlSFyHUMs4
Echoing the crunching, stadium-scale ‘80s metal of Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest, ‘Teenage Sacrifice’ commences with a spiralling riff from guitarist Ian Miles, which wraps itself like barbed wire around vocalist William Von Ghould’s anthemic hook.
William Von Ghould says: “The song introduces Mercy, the protagonist of the Sanguivore narrative. She’s deceptively innocent yet savagely violent, and her ability to make people fall under her spell is just one indication that Mercy is not all that she seems.”
‘Teenage Sacrifice’ is also a song in which a typically intricate Creeper narrative is given a whiplash of devilishly dark humour, courtesy of Von Ghould’s opening lyrics: “All my friends are digging graves and I’m giving them the shovels / I’m burning churches to the ground and making love in the rubble.”
As with the rest of the Sanguivore album, ‘Teenage Sacrifice’ is the product of Creeper's creative union with producer Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, The Cult).
The accompanying music video, directed by Billy Howard Price and Jacek Zmarz, is both an unsettling and terrifying glance into Mercy’s world. She may just have been around a little longer than her teenage looks might suggest… It’s a visual which, like the band’s music, darts between eras with some of the sinister surreal touches of an A24 folk-horror and a little Hammer Horror-style flamboyance.
Taking a darker turn from Sex, Death & The Infinite Void, Sanguivore is a thrillingly theatrical new story that the band’s ever-growing army of devotees will devour themselves within. Riffing upon fearsome throwback vampire flicks such as Near Dark, The Lost Boys and Interview With The Vampire, its narrative focuses upon Mercy and her relationship with Spook, an older man who falls under her control but doesn’t quite lose sight of their previous humanity. Somehow the music is wilder than the narrative, taking in sonic touchstones including Jim Steinman, Sisters of Mercy, Billy Idol, Nick Cave, pagan-folk, late ‘70s punk and gloomy industrial synth textures. It’s all larger-than-life, darker-than-death, and the best album Creeper have ever recorded.
Pre-order Sanguivore here: https://creeper.lnk.to/SanguivorePR
While all test pressings quickly sold-out, there are four vinyl editions available, each of which is packaged with a signed art print.
Creeper’s most recent UK headline show took place at London’s Roundhouse, where William Von Ghould stepped out to thank the sold-out audience when a mysterious figure leapt from the shadows and decapitated him in front of 3300 people.
They will follow the release of Sanguivore by embarking upon the following Sacred Blasphemy tour dates.
Nov 05: Bristol O2 Academy
Nov 06: Glasgow Clyde Room
Nov 08: Nottingham Rock City
Nov 09: Manchester Academy
Nov 10: London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Remaining tickets are on sale here: http://creepercult.com/
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Sanguivore tracklist:
Further Than Forever
Cry To Heaven
Sacred Blasphemy
The Ballad Of Spook & Mercy
Lovers Led Astray
Teenage Sacrifice
Chapel Gates
The Abyss
Black Heaven
More Than Death
