Employed To Serve will release their new studio album Conquering on September 17th through Spinefarm Records. The first single from the the album is called “Exist“, and it can be found below.
Justine Jones, the band’s frontwoman offered the following regarding the single:
“‘Exist‘ is a song that celebrates the highs and lows of existing. For this video, I really wanted to capture the excitement of being a pre-teen and discovering the absolute joy that is music. I loved the idea of getting into someone’s head at that time and them daydreaming about being on stage with the band you love, like we did when we were that age and recently in the past year when we couldn’t play shows!”
It took six months of planning due to the pandemic and because we had to source someone who could create one-off figures of each band member. We were lucky enough to come across Mattachine Society from Brooklyn, who creates awesome bootlegs. For the model stage and backline, [guitarist] Sammy [Urwin] and I channelled our inner Art Attack and made that during the winter lockdown to keep our minds from the apocalypse.
When having meetings about how to dress the set and actors, we wanted to shout out as many of our mates’ bands as possible and leave little Easter eggs for people to find with each re-watch of the video.”
The most important aspect of the video for me was finding a young energetic girl to play the really stoked kid. When I was growing up, metal was a very male-dominated genre and I always felt a bit out of place. I feel that this is a different story now with so many women in bands. Working in the industry and in the crowd, it’s becoming normalized, which is really exciting.”
Regarding the album itself she said:
“‘Conquering‘ is about rising above adversity and self-doubt. We’re really excited to share our latest album — I feel it’s our best work to date. We wanted to go a more metal orientated direction with this album and see how far we could push our musical capabilities.”
Conquering track listing:
01 – “Universal Chokehold”
02 – “Exist”
03 – “Twist The Blade”
04 – “Sun Up To Sun Down”
05 – “The Mistake”
06 – “We Don’t Need You”
07 – “Set In Stone”
08 – “Mark Of The Grave”
09 – “World Ender”
10 – “ The Conquering”
11 – “Stand Alone”
You may pre-order the album here.
