Bonus second track also released
British rock outfit Asking Alexandria has established themselves as one of the most important rock bands of this generation through years of hard touring, four RIAA Gold-certified singles, two No. 1 albums and several Top 10 hits. The band will release their anticipated eighth full-length studio album Where Do We Go From Here? this fall via Better Noise Music. The album’s debut track “Dark Void” was released in May and saw the band return to their metalcore beginnings has already amassed five million streams and one million video views to date. The band has shared the album’s electrified first official radio single “Psycho” along with releasing the vindictive, heavy-hitting track “Bad Blood” across digital platforms.
“‘Psycho’ is one of those songs that is talking about when you feel trapped inside your own head, trapped by your own vices and your own downfalls,” explains lead guitarist Ben Bruce. “Whether it’s being stuck in a relationship that doesn’t work for you, or feeling like you can’t stop drinking or doing drugs, or maybe you’re stuck in a job that you hate, and you’re just battling yourself in your own head wondering ‘why am I still here? Why do I keep doing these things?’. Ultimately, at the end of the day we all feel a little bit crazy…a little bit like a Psycho. It’s just a fun song that we can all relate to, and stylistically we thought to ourselves ‘how do we make a song that sounds like it could live on the ‘Like A House On Fire’ album, but also like it could live on the ‘From Death to Destiny’ album?’. So musically, from a writing standpoint, it was a really enjoyable experience to meld those two eras of Asking Alexandria together and see what that might look like.”
Earlier this week the group announced a co-headlining tour with The Hu, the acclaimed Mongolian rock sensation and Better Noise Music labelmates. The Psycho Thunder Tour will kick off this fall and also includes labelmates Bad Wolves and opening act Zero 9:36. The UK-based rockers will headline several festival appearances this summer in the US, including Rock Fest, Inkcarceration Festival and Louder Than Life, before the co-headlining tour commences August 30th in San Antonio, TX. Throughout the trek, which ends October 8th in Los Angeles, Asking Alexandria will appear on additional festival dates including Rocklahoma and Blue Ridge Rock Festival.
