Burner share confrontational new single Blood River

Burner have shared a new single, Blood River.

The single is the second cut to arrive from their forthcoming album No One is Coming to Save Us, following up last month’s collaboration with Trivium vocalist Matt Heafy, Sunrise, Parabellum.

"Blood River is about cycles of violence, throughout history and across time: rivers of blood that have flowed before in conflict, and will flow again,” says vocalist Harry Nott. “That no matter how much a confident warrior might think, there’s nothing you can truly do to stop someone fighting back - and thus, we will always have war, scarring the land and time itself."

Listen to it below:

No One Is Coming To Save Us will be out on September 25 via Church Road Records.

Discussing its themes, Harry shares: “If It All Returns To Nothing looked outwards to the world’s chaos throughout history, No One Is Coming To Save Us instead looks inwards at its proposed cause; humanity’s violent, animalistic nature, begging us for change. This is an album about human behaviour: that people create endless cycles of violence by repeating the mistakes of the past, forging a brutal history that we fail to learn from.

“But, at the same time, the album is about questioning whether we can ever get past those sins and repetitions. This is a record that is mournful as much as it is angry and engaged. It longs to bitterly recall the moments of greatness and sacrifice in our shared history that created the better world we currently destroy. It longs to look back at these moments for inspiration and optimism, at a time where it feels like hope is running thin.

“The album is also a struggle for hope, not just that humanity can overcome hatred and violence, but that we can look back on our greatest moments and take courage to build a better world. No One Is Coming To Save Us reflects this duality in its title: that no one will come to save us from the violence and tragedy we create as part of our humanity. But it also proposes that it’s up to us to change – to overcome a violent human nature and usher in a better tomorrow.”

Catch Burner on tour at the following dates:

September

26 London Lower Third

October

24 Nottingham Billy Bootleggers
25 Leeds Boom
26 Newcastle The Lubber Fiend
27 Glasgow Audio
28 Sheffield Corporation
29 Birmingham The Flapper
30 Southampton The Joiners
31 Bristol The Croft

November

1 Brighton Green Door Store

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