Finnish chart-topping Nu-Metal stars BLIND CHANNEL have released their newest single, “DEADZONE” , along with an accompanying music video. The band’s latest track further realizes their ‘violent pop’ ambitions – showcasing catchy hooks, an anthemic chorus, and the melding of metal instrumentals with electronic/DJ effects. The new song is undeniably modern and infectious, while also cementing itself in the hard-hitting, irreverent sensibilities of heavy music from past decades. The backstory behind the wild, adrenaline-pumping music video traces back to the origins of the band’s formation.
Commenting on the single, BLIND CHANNEL share:
“DEADZONE is one of our favorite songs we’ve ever written. It’s a song about reaching the point of no return. You gotta make a choice, to give up or keep going. DEADZONE is the moment of absolute uncertainty. We’ve been there. Maybe you’ve been there as well.
Addressing the musical chemistry of the song, the band adds:
“We wrote this song in Los Angeles with the rock-writer-legend Johnny Andrews, who’s written hits for Three Days Grace and Apocalyptica. During those sessions we managed to combine our musical DNA from the early 2000s rock music with everything we love in mainstream music today. The music video was inspired by the true story about the formation of Blind Channel ten years ago.”
DEADZONE was co-written by Johnny Andrews, whose works includes credits with Three Days Grace and Apocalyptica, mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Zakk Cervini (Blink-182, Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud), and produced by the band.
After releasing their single “FLATLINE” last February, which was accompanied by extensive touring-activities (EU Headline Tour / I Prevail EU-UK Tour / Electric Callboy Stadium Tour), BLIND CHANNEL are back with another banger entitled “HAPPY DOOMSDAY”.
The new single shows the band in a sophisticated way which can be clearly described as ‘violent pop’. Catchy, addictive and contemporary!
Nico (vocals) comments as follows: ”The time around writing this song was a time of continuous bad news for us. Every day felt like another end of the world, which turned into a joke in the studio: ‘Happy Doomsday to you’. Frustrated, we noticed that panic only leads to more panic and wrote this song as an alternative, to sit back and enjoy the ride until all the hardships turn to yesterday’s news. The song gave us a good time, and we hope it can give that to others as well!“
Catch BLIND CHANNEL are currently touring the USA with Lacuna Coil on their West Coast Tour 2023. The band also performs on major European festivals this year!
LACUNA COIL – US WEST COAST TOUR 2023 Sunday 14.5. Lacuna Coil | Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex (USA) Tuesday 16.5. Lacuna Coil | Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall (USA) Wednesday 17.5. Lacuna Coil | Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater (USA) Thursday 18.5. Lacuna Coil | Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater (USA) Friday 19.5. Lacuna Coil | Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco (USA)
FESTIVAL SUMMER 2023 Wednesday 7.6. – Caribana Festival (SUI) Thursday 8.6. – Nova Rock Festival (AUT) Saturday 10.6. – Saaristo Open Festival (FIN) Sunday 11.6. – Download Festival (UK) Friday 16.6. – Graspop Metal Meeting (BE) Saturday 24.6. – Full Force Festival (GER) Thursday 29.6. – Evil Live Festival (POR) Friday 30.6. – Resurrection Fest (ESP) Saturday 15.7. – Ipppodrome Snai San Siro, Milan (ITA) – TBA Friday 21.7. – Seinäjoen vauhtiajot (FIN) Thursday 11.8. – Back to School, Särkänniemi (FIN) Friday 12.8. – Himos Metal Festival (FIN) Thursday 17.8. – Reload Festival (GER) Friday 18.8. – Rock the Lakes Festival (SUI) Saturday 19.8. – Tapiola Festival (FIN)
“It took me eight years to become an overnight success” – this line, buried away in BLIND CHANNEL’s fourth album, Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous, is where their uncompromising journey finds its continuation. When forming in 2013 in Oulu, Finland, vocalists Niko and Joel Hokka, drummer Tommi Lalli, guitarist Joonas Porko and bass player Olli Matela (plus the later addition of DJ/percussionist Alex Mattson) knew that it was all about going big or going home. This is exactly what they did when they found their way onto the largest stage in Europe: Eurovision, after competing in the Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), Finland’s annual contest to discover their entry. Winning the spot, by the largest landslide the competition has seen, BLIND CHANNEL captivated the continent with their fiery nu-metal charge: “Dark Side”.
However, Eurovision isn’t the crux of BLIND CHANNEL’s story. This stepping-stone that saw them take to that hallowed stage, was just that: a gambit towards the bigger picture. While it did allow them to amass even more followers, they had already been building a fervent fanbase over the years, thanks to their three previous albums: Revolutions (2016), Blood Brothers (2018), Violent Pop (2020).
Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous takes the next step, offering a swagger-filled, sincere depiction of their lives, backed by their trademark unforgiving “violent pop music”. A winking homage to the Good Charlotte track “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous”, it’s most importantly a righteous statement of intent – this is only the beginning.
After releasing their latest full-length, Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous, last year to critical acclaim, selling out shows across Europe on their headline tour, plus supporting Electric Callboy and other massive acts on the road, Finland’s BLIND CHANNEL are kicking off 2023 with a banger; their new standalone single, “FLATLINE“, is streaming now via Century Media RecordsHERE
BLIND CHANNEL comments: “This is the beginning of the next chapter of our career. ‘FLATLINE’ is Blind Channel on steroids. We captured the energy of last year’s 130 shows into one song, and threw it to a Berlin rave full of red lights and hardcore partying. The song was written with songwriter duo Blyne (David Guetta, Robin Schuldz etc.), and at the same time, it’s one of the heaviest tracks we’ve ever made. So this sh*t is pretty unique from the scratch. If you’re sick & tired of ups and downs, this song might help you.”
It took me eight years to become an overnight success” – this line, buried away in BLIND CHANNEL’s fourth album, Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous, is where their uncompromising journey finds its continuation. When forming in 2013 in Oulu, Finland, vocalists Niko and Joel Hokka, drummer Tommi Lalli, guitarist Joonas Porko and bass player Olli Matela (plus the later addition of DJ/percussionist Alex Mattson) knew that it was all about going big or going home. This is exactly what they did when they found their way onto the largest stage in Europe: Eurovision, after competing in the Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), Finland’s annual contest to discover their entry. Winning the spot, by the largest landslide the competition has seen, BLIND CHANNEL captivated the continent with their fiery nu-metal charge: “Dark Side”.
However, Eurovision isn’t the crux of BLIND CHANNEL’s story. This stepping-stone that saw them take to that hallowed stage, was just that: a gambit towards the bigger picture. While it did allow them to amass even more followers, they had already been building a fervent fanbase over the years, thanks to their three previous albums: Revolutions (2016), Blood Brothers (2018), Violent Pop (2020).
Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous takes the next step, offering a swagger-filled, sincere depiction of their lives, backed by their trademark unforgiving “violent pop music”. A winking homage to the Good Charlotte track “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous”, it’s most importantly a righteous statement of intent – this is only the beginning.
Finnish post-hardcore ‘violent pop’ collective BLIND CHANNEL have released their brand new single ‘Don’t Fix Me’, taken from the forthcoming album Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous.
‘Don’t Fix Me’ is a huge rock anthem, where mighty riffs and pummelling drums meet synths, captivating harmonies and a frenzied rap from vocalist Niko Moilanen. The accompanying video captures the band on the road during their recent tours across the US and Europe which is available to watch HERE
Regarding the single Blind Channel say, “‘ Don’t Fix Me’ continues the theme of brokeness, featured on the upcoming album. However, this time we decided to be empowering and uplifting and wrote something people wanna scream while having the craziest time of their lives. This song is the soundtrack for the wildest parties and the cure for the day-after’s hangover.”
‘Don’t Fix Me’ is the latest song to be taken from the band’s upcoming fourth album Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous, which also features the previously released award-winning and multi-million streamed singles including ‘Bad Idea’, ‘Dark Side’ ‘Balboa’ and ‘We Are No Saints’.
Blind Channel were the most successful artist at the recent Finnish Grammy Awards (Emma Gala) last month, where they received six awards, including two for ‘Dark Side’ (‘Song Of The Year’ & ‘Most Streamed Song’). They also were awarded ‘Band Of The Year’, ‘Artist Of The Year’ (by public vote), ‘Rock Of The Year’ and the ‘Export Award’ – the latter testament to their rapidly rising international profile having spent almost the entirety of this year on the road throughout the US, Europe and UK.
Since their official return to Nuclear Blast family last year, the four fabulous dudes from Finland have been busy, locked away in the studio, to record the follow up album for their 2020 release “No Absolution”. In the meantime, the world is opening up again for the live sector and LOST SOCIETY are super happy to announce today, that they are joining forces with their Finnish buddies from BLIND CHANNEL to conquer Europe!
Frontman Samy Elbanna comments: “Europe – it’s time for the new generation to take over! We are beyond excited to finally be coming back for a full length European tour, joining forces with our good friends in Blind Channel, who are absolutely killing it right now. To make things even more special, we can finally reveal that there will be a new Lost Society single coming in May, and a full length album coming in the fall of 2022, so we will be bringing along a load of new material and rest assured, these shows are going to be insane! Grab your tickets for the tour of the year RIGHT NOW, as shows will be selling out in no time, and we want to make sure we see all of you out there! Prepare yourselves, BC x LS is coming for you.”
Here are the dates:
AUGUST WED 31 GERMANY – HAMBURG KNUST
SEPTEMBER THU 01 GERMANY – BERLIN – LIDO SAT 03 GERMANY – DRESDEN – STRASSE E SUN 04 GERMANY – NUREMBERG – HIRSCH MON 05 GERMANY – MUNICH – BACKSTAGE HALLE TUE 06 GERMANY – STUTTGART – WIZEMANN CLUB WED 07 GERMANY – SAARBRUCKEN – GARAGE THU 08 GERMANY – FRANKFURT – ZOOM FRI 09 GERMANY – BOCHUM – ZECHE SUN 11 GERMANY – COLOGNE – KANTINE MON 12 ENGLAND – BRISTOL – THEKLA TUE 13 SCOTLAND – GLASGOW – CATHOUSE WED 14 ENGLAND – MANCHESTER – REBELLION THU 15 ENGLAND – LONDON – O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON FRI 16 ENGLAND – NOTTINGHAM – RESCUE ROOMS SAT 17 ENGLAND – BIRMINGHAM – O2 ACADEMY 3 MON 19 BELGIUM – ANTWERP – KAVKA TUE 20 HOLLAND – TILBURG – 013 WED 21 FRANCE – PARIS – BACKSTAGE BY THE MILL FRI 23 SPAIN – MADRID – SALA CARACOL SAT 24 SPAIN – BARCELONA – SALA BOVEDA MON 26 SWITZERLAND – ZURICH – PLAZA TUE 27 ITALY – MILAN – LEGEND CLUB WED 28 AUSTRIA – VIENNA – CHELSEA THU 29 CZECH REP – PRAGUE – ROCK CAFÉ FRI 30 POLAND – KRAKOW – KLUB ZASCIANEK
Finnish post-hardcore ‘Violent Pop’ outfit BLIND CHANNEL are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated new album, ‘Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous’, which drops on July 8th, 2022. Now, the band has released the third single from the record, titled “Bad Idea”, along with an accompanying music video, which can be watched HERE.
Band comments:
”Bad Idea” is a serenade of self-pity and an unsuccessful apology. In the lyrics, we’re getting personal and digging deeper than ever. The song came to life many years ago, when relationships ended in a very ugly manner and all you could think of was: ”well I warned you.”
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