Last month, Grave Pleasures announced their third full-length, Plagueboys, the long-awaited follow-up to 2017's Motherblood, and offered up its lead single, the goth-club-ready "Society of Spectres." Today (February 22nd), the Finnish post-punk outfit — led by vocalist Mat McNerney, a.k.a. Kvohst, of Dødheimsgard, Code and Hexvessel — have offered up a second cut, the jittery, jangly "Heart Like a Slaughterhouse," along with its vivid music video. Watch and listen above.
Guitarist and songwriter Aleksi Kiiskilä commented, "'Heart Like a Slaughterhouse,' the go-to midnight hour dance track for crooked minds. Hooks you dive into head-first psycho-hypnotic frenzy and Buffalo Bill-influenced disco moves."
He added: "After playing at Wave Gotik Treffen a few years back, I was impressed by all those creative costumes and their uncanny, sinister details. It felt like being in some apocalyptic, gothic steampunk city where everything's messed up, with that being all normal. So, the morning after our show, basically out of nowhere popped up this riff and the driving beat for 'Heart Like a Slaughterhouse,' where the confidence of Eliminator meets Virus-like psychotic hooks. Something that feels wrong and right at the same time, something addictive and macabre which makes you move around your room like some broken manikin."
Plagueboys is due out April 21st and available for pre-order now.
