Western Australia’s finest purveyors of heavy and aggressive music – All This Filth, are set to release their second full length album “Misery Season” on March 29th.
According to frontman and main lyricist Brendan Preston, “Misery Season” is a step beyond and above anything ATF has done before. “It was a long and difficult process for both the recording and writing. It almost killed me personally (literally) and took its toll on everyone. The writing was spaced out over the last 5 or so years and spans two separate line ups of this band. Some of the songs such as “I Still Hate” and “Slave State” were written by a previous line up of the band. For the rest of the songs we had numerous members come and go which made the process that much more challenging. ”
“The recording was done over 3 separate blocks in 2018 in June, September and November at Sumo Studios. Our producer Tristan worked us hard. He’s a bit of a perfectionist but that’s good in this case because he got really good results. At times it was fun but at times it was gruelling and almost broke us. So it was a bit of a mixed bag but at the end of the day it got good results. Would definitely work with Tristan again. He’s a good guy and knows his stuff. He got us to try some different things which really added to the album. So overall I’m really happy with the results. ”
On the inspiration behind the new songs and what the band set out to achieve with them in comparison to previous material, Brendan says it was therapeutic in many ways and hopes that fans will hear that in the songs. “I wanted to get what I was feeling in my head and my heart out of there and put it on to tape. I want the listener to feel me on every word and sentence. I want them to feel the music too and hopefully get some sort of catharsis from it.
On top of the new album announcement, the band have also released the first single “This Is Misery“. It’s a dark and brutal piece of work that builds up to a frenzied attack with drops of groove and thrashy attacks blended together to create the perfect album opener.