Northlane Drop New Single & Announce Album Tour

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Metalcore outfit Northlane have confirmed a huge Australian headline tour this October in support of their forthcoming fifth studio album, Alien.

The news comes after the Sydney group debuted new single Bloodline overnight, taken from Alien, which will drop August 2 via UNFD ahead of five-date tour this October.

“Bloodline was one of the first songs that came about in the writing process for the album,” Northlane vocalist Marcus Bridge said.

“When we were trying to decide what we wanted to write about, we decided early on that we wanted to keep the album pretty personal. I wanted to tell the stories of my upbringing and the ups and downs that come along with that.”

Its accompanying music video was created by Jason Eshraghian, who the band has been working with since 2014.

“It was a pretty clear choice to work with Jason, who has done all our videos since I’ve joined the band,” Bridge said.

“We’ve grown as a band together with Jason. He understands the stories we’re trying to tell through our videos. When it came down to the more personal subject, I don’t think it would have been possible to do it with someone we hadn’t worked with before because I don’t know if I would have felt comfortable having someone that we hadn’t worked with before telling this story and someone that doesn’t really know me and know how I want to tell this story.

“Jason delivered again, and this video is one of my favourite videos that I have ever done. It goes into some fine detail once again about that environment of growing up around parents who use drugs, violent parents and all that stuff that a lot of people do deal with that maybe don’t feel comfortable talking about. This video is going to make you feel pretty uncomfortable, but I think it’s a story that isn’t really told often enough.”

With support from Counterparts, Silent Planet and Void Of Vision, the Alien album tour will kick off in Sydney before moving on to Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

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