{"id":70624,"date":"2018-10-15T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=70624"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:14:59","slug":"news-ken-mode-release-seventh-studio-album-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-ken-mode-release-seventh-studio-album-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"KEN MODE Premiere \u2018Learning To Be Too Cold\u2019 Music Video (October 15th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN MODE Premiere \u2018Learning To Be Too Cold\u2019 Music Video<\/strong><\/span>
\nOctober 15th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-based noise rock group KEN mode have filmed a music video for the track \u2018Learning To Be Too Cold\u2019, which can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Frontman Jesse Matthewson commented: \u201c\u2018Learning To Be Too Cold\u2019 was the last song written in the session for this record. We salvaged a few riffs from a track that we demoed in May of 2017 with the working title of \u2018the moody idiot\u2019, and added three new parts that we wrote just after Skot [Hamilton, bass] found out that his father died. The riffs are like scraping bones and metal together, and the lyrics are some of the most demeaning and harsh of the entire album. Skot claims the song does not make him feel good by association, and is consequently his favourite song on the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

KEN mode issued seventh full-length studio album Loved<\/em> on August 31st, 2018 through Season Of Mist (excluding Canada). New Damage Records scheduled Canadian release to take place the same day.<\/p>\n

The outing can be streaming in its entirety via YouTube below.<\/p>\n

Matthewson added: \u201cWith Loved<\/em> our entire album was influenced by the cover piece \u2013 \u2018Happy Person Having A Pleasant Conversation In Public\u2019, which Randy [Ortiz] debuted Sept 26th, 2016. We knew from the moment he posted it that we needed this to be the cover to our next work \u2013 Loved<\/em>, which we had earmarked shortly after we\u2019d finished recording Success<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Randy, we know the piece is a bit of an encapsulation of his relationship with sleep paralysis, but for us, it\u2019s come to represent the face of \u2018responsible\u2019 adult life in 2017\/2018. In late 2016 he printed stickers for the piece, just as a bit of a promotion \u2013 but I kept one of these stickers on my dresser from that moment on… our eyes meeting every morning upon my waking; every day, for the entire year we worked on Loved<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like this ritual encouraged an artistic arms race, where we had to create an album that would live up to the ecstatic nastiness of this image. We were also just generally fed up with much of what life in 2017\/18 has come to represent, working in the music industry in general, and wanted to create something wholly noisy and ugly, yet with an underlying humor \u2013 because if you\u2019re not laughing these days, you\u2019re probably crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loved<\/em> was recorded in January 2018 with producer Andrew Schneider at Private Ear Recording in Winnipeg. Mixing was also handled by Schneider, while the outing was mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

Cover artwork was created by Randy Ortiz.<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows;<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Doesn\u2019t Feel Pain Like He Should\u2019
\n02. \u2018The Illusion Of Dignity\u2019
\n03. \u2018Feathers & Lips\u2019
\n04. \u2018Learning To Be Too Cold\u2019
\n05. \u2018Not Soulmates\u2019
\n06. \u2018Very Small Men\u2019
\n07. \u2018This Is A Love Test\u2019
\n08. \u2018Fractures In Adults\u2019
\n09. \u2018No Gentle Art\u2019<\/p>\n

KEN mode\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n

Jesse Matthewson (vocals and guitars)
\nSkot Hamilton (bass)
\nShane Matthewson (drums)<\/p>\n

Music videos were also filmed for the tracks \u2018Doesn\u2019t Feel Pain Like He Should\u2019 and \u2018Feathers & Lips\u2019. Both clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Sixth studio record Success<\/em> was released<\/a> in June 2015 via Season Of Mist.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Brenna Faris.<\/em><\/p>\n