Detroit hardcore band Never Ending Game have announced Outcry, their sophomore album set for release May 12 via Triple B Records. Check out lead singles “Memories” and “Never Die (feat. Trapped Under Ice)” now.
Outcry was produced, recorded, and mixed by Andy Nelson at Bricktop Recording and mastered by Brad Boatright at AudioSeige. The record builds off the band’s life in Detroit—from lyrics to influences to imagery—while exuding a general feeling of hopelessness and optimism at the same time. Across the eleven songs on the album, the band take their sound to the next level, creating old-school hardcore through a modern lens.
Speaking on the record and the band’s roots, vocalist Mikey Petroski says:
“Detroit is everything to the band. I wouldn’t write the way I do if we came up anywhere else. From the influence of how to structure a song growing up hearing Motown, the emotion of a Bob Seger song on a summer’s night on the radio, and the value of honest hard work. There’s decades of influence from all that’s come before us out of Detroit in our band’s DNA.
“We have bands like Negative Approach and Cold As Life from here that paved the way for someone to even want to pay attention to a hardcore band coming out of Detroit. There’s a sense of pride that people from Detroit carry that’s unlike most other places. We try to wave that flag as much as possible and pay it all forward.”
Preorder the album here and check out “Memories” and “Never Die” below.
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Image courtesy of Never Ending Game/Danielle Parsons.
