Skindred unleash new single: “It pulls together evil dance hall vibes with a booming metal grind”

Skindred have just dropped a mega new single, This Is The Sound.

The band’s latest banger is taken from their forthcoming album You Got This – which is due out on April 17 via Earache. Following on from last November’s equally-explosive title-track, frontman Benji Webbe says of This Is The Sound: “Skindred’s sound has always been about fearlessly sailing on uncharted waters and using multiple influences to get the melting pot of ideas really smoking.

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“This Is The Sound pulls together evil dance hall vibes with a booming metal grind that hopefully makes you want to bang your head and scream along with the chorus. This is the sound that makes you go crazy!”

Speaking about their mindset going into the record as a whole, guitarist Mikey Demus shares: “When you start a band, you don’t think for a second that you’re going to headline Wembley. I don’t feel like we made it happen; the audience made it happen by committing to be there and travelling so far to come.

“When you’re in a band you’re always looking at the next thing and it can be hard to be like, ‘Wow, what’s happening right now is amazing.’ There are still so many people out there who should know us but have never heard of us. So, we’ve got this whole fight ahead of us still.”

Watch the video for This Is The Sound below:

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