Orange Goblin have introduced particulars of their first album in six years. Science, Not Fiction – the follow-up to 2018’s The Wolf Bites Again – shall be launched through Peaceville on July 19, and is out there to pre-order now. The band have additionally launched the primary single from the album, the extraordinarily vigorous (Not) Rocket Science.
“It’s mainly saying that life will be fairly easy and easy in the event you simply cease losing your time and make every day rely,” says frontman Ben Ward. “Be ready to work exhausting, don’t count on any handouts and mainly take pleasure in your self alongside the best way. When Chris got here up with the music he stated it wanted one thing that may very well be delivered in a Bon Scott / Lemmy fashion and I believe it got here out very well.”
The album is the primary Orange Goblin recorded outing for former Hangnail bassist Harry Armstrong, who joined the band in 2020 after the departure of Martyn Millard, and was recorded at Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire with Mike Exeter, who’s beforehand labored with Judas Priest and Tony Iommi, and who gained a Grammy for his work on Black Sabbath‘s remaining album 13.
“It’s a continuation of what we’ve been doing, and that’s as a result of once we write, it’s a giant mixing bowl of all of our influences and favorite artists, and we attempt to create the right band that we at all times wished to listen to,” says Ward. “This album, it’s simply extra completed and mature, I assume. None of us are spring chickens anymore and we’ve received ten albums beneath our belts now.
“I really feel like we’re extra skilled within the recording studio, I really feel like we’re higher musicians and writers, and now with me taking care of myself, I really feel like my efficiency is healthier as nicely. It’s all shifting in the correct course.”
Orange Goblin are at the moment on tour in Japan, with exhibits to observe in Australia and New Zealand, and so they’ve additionally been confirmed as headliners of the inaugural Margate Rock Pageant, which is able to happen at Dreamland in Margate on October 26. They will be joined on the invoice by Florence Black, Wytch Hazel, Cobra Spell, Collateral, Famyne and extra.
“I used to be born in Margate and raised in Thanet so this present has a really particular place in my coronary heart,” says Ward. “Margate has been crying out for an occasion like this for years and what a line-up the organisers have put collectively! Will probably be an absolute honour to come back again to Margate with Orange Goblin in October, armed with a model new album and a set that shall be a collection of highlights from throughout our total catalogue. Convey it on!”
Orange Goblin: Science, Not Fiction tracklist
1. The Fireplace At The Centre Of The Earth Is Mine
2. (Not) Rocket Science
3. Ascend The Unfavourable
4. False Hope Eating regimen
5. Cemetary Rats
6. The Fury Of A Affected person Man
7. Gemini (Twins Of Evil)
8. The Justice Knife
9. Finish Of Transmission
Bonus observe on CD Deluxe & LP
10. Eye Of The Minotaur
