There are so many different elements coming together for this song, and for the full album, that I can’t even tell you what genre it is. And we really hope this can reach a wider audience too. “We hope our friends in the stoner, doom, and heavy psyche communities love it as much as we do. “We’re both insanely proud of this song,” said singer Ed Grabianowski. Pattison is back in the saddle, directing a creepy memetic collage of terrifying otherworldly intrusions to accompany the song. Paired with a B-side cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Out on the Tiles,” “Enemy Lines” presages the band’s third album, scheduled for an early November release. Inspired by Russian science-fiction novel 'Roadside Picnic’ (1972), Spacelord’s latest single “Enemy Lines” space-cowboys up with soaring verses and an anthemic chorus. First things first, Doomers & Stoners! Join me as together we cross “Enemy Lines.” But you’ll have to wait on that reveal later. Keep your eyes peeled for pre-orders of the new 7" single, which will be paired on with a cover of the lesser known but no less classic Led Zeppelin III song, “Out on the Tiles.” Spacelord’s rendition sports a robust zest that is arguably missing from the original, not to mention all that badass low-end (edging them deeper and deeper into my Top 25 list of must-see live acts following pandemic). By that I mean I didn’t consider approaching an additional instrument part for this song any other way - it was like creating a painting of a tree with the expectation that I would put leaves on it.” Rich chimes in, telling Doomed & Stoned: “The slide electric was a natural choice if it were even a choice at all. Then I started writing lyrics and immediately fell into this character, isolated but tough as nails, somewhere else. I did a scratch track that was just wordless singing and moaning, and the melodies emerged from that. I also reached out to Ed for comment, who revealed: “When I wrote the vocal parts for ‘Enemy Lines,’ it just flowed out of me. I’ll not spoil the experience for you, but suffice it to say, the visuals will leave you pondering. While watching, I get a strong feeling that we’re getting a crystal ball’s view into the dystopian past of some alternate history or a glimpse into our own inevitable future. Pattison is wholly absorbing in its own right. There’s something rather ominous in sentiment about “Enemy Lines” all on its own, but the music video, directed by H. Thematically based upon the writings of Russian sibling authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (from which Tarkovsky derived inspiration for the science fiction classic Stalker), “Enemy Lines” fuses elements of backwoods folk with steamy blues, flirts with moments of dissonance and psychedelia, and presents earnest and convincing vocals from Ed Grabianowski (“dragonfire and thunderbolts”), who is joined on this recording by Richard Root (“robot monsters and lazer beams”). Now “the two-headed beast from Buffalo” gives us another foretaste of what’s in store come November, when all will be revealed. Recently, we played “Midnight Shadow” on The Doomed & Stoned Show, which I described as “swampy as hell, with some great up-tempo Delta blues style guitar playing.” That song was paired with a Hendrix cover and released just last month. Leave it to SPACELORD to one-up itself, single after single, as we inch closer to the release of the band’s as yet untitled full-length record.
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