FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES
release third record
‘End Of Suffering’
– Out now on INTERNATIONAL DEATH CULT
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Praise for ‘END OF SUFFERING’
“Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have put all their cards on the table, fully exposed, gifting us with 12 tracks of raw, unfettered rock ’n’ roll.” – Hysteria
“…iconic” – Clash
“one of the most sincere and important albums of Frank Carter‘s career…do everything in your power to give it a spin.” – Wall Of Sound
“One of 2019’s great rock records” – Dork
“…‘The Holy Bible’ for a whole new generation.” – Upset
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Fresh from their Australian tour in support of Bring Me the Horizon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes are thrilled to share their third record ‘End of Suffering’ today, out via International Death Cult.
‘End Of Suffering’ – named after the Buddhist term for enlightenment- is the sound of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes entering an entirely new realm of the senses, a forty minute rock’n’rollercoaster of molten-hot bangers, scorched-soul ballads and grunge lullabies laced through with a lacerating lyrical honesty. The album was recorded with Cam Blackwood (George Ezra / Jack Savoretti) at the helm and legendary mixer Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails / Queens Of The Stone Age) sprinkling sonic stardust. Indeed. In an age of say-nothing pop and codified corporate rock, ‘End Of Suffering’ does what all great music should- lift the spirits and stir the soul.
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LISTEN TO ‘END OF SUFFERING’ HERE
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Earlier this week, the band unveiled new single ‘Kitty Sucker’, which premiered as ‘Annie Mac’s Hottest Record’. Following the singles ‘Anxiety’ and ‘Crowbar’, ‘Kitty Sucker’ – where Frank leers “I’m a punk rock renegade/ A tattooed motherfucker dripping lust for decade”, is a juggernaut of a track, designed to create mosh pit mayhem as Rattlesnakes anticipation reaches fever pitch this week.
Off the back of a recent live run which has seen the band tour across the UK, Europe and support Bring Me The Horizon on their Australian tour, the band will embark on a slew of exciting instore gigs set to take place across the UK next month before high profile slots at the likes of The Great Escape, Primavera, Lollapalooza and Reading & Leeds.
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MORE ABOUT ‘END OF SUFFERING’:
‘End of Suffering’ sees Carter, co-songwriter Dean Richardson and co not so much spreading their wings as running and leaping headfirst into heretofore uncharted waters. Opener ‘Why A Butterfly Can’t Love A Spider’ finds Frank at full stretch, singing: “When I’m high I’m in heaven/When I’m low I’m in hell”, while first single “Crowbar” is tauter than a highwire and relentlessly sharpened to a razor’s edge, a sonic Molotov cocktail of a track delivered with the anarchic zeal of the gilets-jaunes rioters. “I saw an amazing bit of graffitti during the Paris riots which said: ‘We’ve cut off heads for less than this’” enthuses Frank. “I loved that attitude. People are sick of being force fed doom and gloom.” It also comes complete with a video directed by long-time collaborator Ross Cairns (who has also directed videos for Biffy Clyro and QOTSA) and acts as a blistering clarion call to arms.
When the fury is dialled down however, even more startling shades start to surface. ‘Anxiety’ is a paranoic festival anthem in waiting, while ‘Love Games’ is an absolute beauty; a distortion-heavy nod to Amy Winehouse’s finest moment destined to soundtrack the summer. ‘Angel Wings’, meanwhile, is as bleakly poetic as Charles Bukowski. A howl of existential despair involving vodka and viocodin induced visions of ‘feathers made of diamond rings/dragons made of oxygen’ it’s worthy of those other harrowingly honest third albums, The Manic Street Preachers’ Holy Bible & Nirvana’s In Utero (both band favourites).
The album also features Tom Morello as a guest guitarist on ‘Tyrant Lizard King’. The two re-connected after many years at Resurrection Festival in Spain last summer, where Frank infamously sung Rage classic ‘Killing In The Name’ to a 40,000 strong crowd, finishing the track with a stage dive worthy of the rock’n’roll hall of fame.
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NEW LP ‘END OF SUFFERING’ OUT NOW
ON INTERNATIONAL DEATH CULT
STREAM HERE
TRACKLISTING
1. Why a Butterfly Can’t Love a Spider
2. Tyrant Lizard King feat. Tom Morello
3. Heartbreaker
4. Crowbar
5. Love Games
6. Anxiety
7. Angel Wings
8. Supervillian
9. Latex Dreams
10. Kitty Sucker
11. Little Devil
12. End of Suffering
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