OF MICE & MEN has shared the music video for the track “Castaway”. The monitor is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “Tether”, due on October 6 by way of SharpTone.

“‘Castaway’ is about eager for reference to the individuals in our lives who are likely to distance themselves when coping with hardships, and the way our incapacity to assist them usually looks like we’re frozen in time,” the band says.

Taking all artistic issues into their very own arms, the 4 members of the Southern California act produced and engineered all the songs on “Tether”, their eighth album. Bassist/vocalist Aaron Pauley combined and mastered the album whereas drummer Valentino Arteaga designed and painted the album’s art work. As a legion of devoted listeners worldwide has come to count on, guitarists Phil Manansala and Alan Ashby, Aaron and Tino poured their hearts and souls into each observe, creating one other sonic doc of their lives.

“With this one, we weren’t actually centered on the way it sounded as a lot as we centered on the way it felt,” Pauley explains. “And that is a bizarre factor to do when all you are working with is sound. However that was actually the purpose. And we walked away from making it, feeling like we have completed that.”

OF MICE & MEN takes sobering appears at melancholy, nervousness, loneliness, and existential dread, powering by means of the darkness, and emphasizing the significance of creativity as a balm for psychological well being. A commanding tempest of sounds coalesces inside OF MICE & MEN, mixing the uplifting eloquence of recent energetic rock with the atmospheric dissonance of experimental post-rock. The band first emerged as a part of a vanguard of future aggressive rock hitmakers. Over time, they’ve distinguished themselves with musicality, artistic ambition, and resilient willpower.

Album eight isn’t any much less formidable. “Tether” is anchored by a reflective meditation on what it means to attract collectively as associates, household males, artists, and bandmates. What does it imply to be there for the individuals who rely upon us, understanding we won’t absolutely defend them from the hardships of life?

“Tether” is the subsequent step in OF MICE & MEN‘s evolution, combining their core sound with experimental and ethereal sound designs. The artistic course of centered on the joy of discovery relatively than preconceived “objectives.” Pursuing the moments when the elusive “x issue” reveals itself within the songs. These moments are palpable in songs like “Integration”, “Warpaint”, “Enraptured” and “Indigo”.

The OF MICE & MEN core since 2016 — Aaron, Alan, Tino and Phil — keep a strong bond with their viewers and one another, irrespective of the obstacles. Whether or not a strong anthem or atmospheric confession, their songs translate in intimate golf equipment and big festivals. “It is about creating moments for individuals,” Pauley says. “Music is the soundtrack to individuals’s lives.”

OF MICE & MEN will hit the highway this fall with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and VENDED.