WILL HAVEN Release Music Video For ‘Hewed With The Brand’ Track
June 1st, 2018
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Sacramento, California-based noise metal group Will Haven have filmed a music video for the track ‘Hewed With The Brand’. Directed by Brian Cox (Flarelight Films), the clip can be viewed below.
Will Haven issued sixth full-length studio album Muerte (Spanish for ‘death’) on March 23rd, 2018 through Minus Head Records.
Guitarist Jeff Irwin commented: “All said and done, we spent two years on this record. We had more time than ever to fine tune the music. We really benefited from that. We’re also more in tune with who we are. It’s the first time I walked away going, ‘There’s nothing else I could’ve done to make this better.’”
Throughout 2017, the members of Will Haven secretly recorded Muerte at Pus Cavern Studios in Sacramento with Joe Johnston engineering and co-producing alongside Irwin. Mastering was handled by Logan Mader.
“It felt like a rebirth,” Irwin adds. “It sounds like a whole new band. There’s a chemistry that only the four of us can achieve. Who knows what’s next, but this is everything we were always meant to be on a record.”
Muerte includes the six-minute-plus track ‘El Sol’, co-written and performed with Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter.
“If Will Haven and Deftones had a kid, that’s what it would sound like,” Irwin comments regarding ‘El Sol’. “I was in my first band with Stephen. This was really a family thing. While we were in the studio, he sent us an e-mail with an eight-minute song of all riffs. I added the spacey elements. Our vocalist, Grady, is reciting this famous poem about being kind to your fellow man and taking care of each other. Lyrically, it fits the times.”
Yob guitarist Mike Scheidt guests on the track ‘No Escape’, meanwhile.
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The track listing is as follows;
01. ‘Hewed With The Brand’
02. ‘Winds Of Change’
03. ‘Kinney’
04. ‘The Son’
05. ‘43’
06. ‘No Escape’ (feat. Mike Scheidt)
07. ‘Unit K’
08. ‘Ladwig No. 949’
09. ‘Bootstraps’
10. ‘Now In The Ashes’
11. ‘El Sol’ (feat. Stephen Carpenter)
Will Haven’s line-up is as follows;
Grady Avenell (vocals)
Jeff Irwin (guitars)
Adrien Contreras (bass)
Mitch Wheeler (drums)
Directed by Brian Cox of Flarelight Films, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘El Sol’. The clip can also be viewed below.
Fifth studio record Voir Dire was released in October 2011 via Bieler Bros. Records.
