Year Of The Knife have released two new songs, which can be found below, called “Wish” and “Last Laugh“. “Wish” features a guest spot from Full Of Hell vocalist Dylan Walker. The recording sessions for the songs were done with Converge‘s Kurt Ballou prior to the band’s tragic van accident in June.
The accident found all the members of the band suffering different injuries, which varied in severity but vocalist Madi Watkins was left in critical condition and put into a medically-induced coma to stabilize her.
Since then, she’s gone through several surgeries for broken bones and more, and due to brain trauma, he has been going through extensive physical therapy, cognition, and speech therapy, and is still on her road to recovery. If you are interested in contributing to the band’s recovery fund, you can do so here.
The aforementioned tracks are from the band’s new album No Love Lost, which is set to release through Pure Noise Records on October 27th.
Brandon Watkins the band’s bassist offered:
“After three months we’re finally gearing up to go home. We were in a terrible accident in Salt Lake City that left me concussed, Aaron with a broken femur and severed carotid artery, Andy with broken ankles, and Madi breaking almost everything and a traumatic brain injury. It’s been a long, long road but everyday brings new hope. Madi‘s currently awake and alert, talking her head off, and doing constant speech, physical and occupational therapy. Like I said, it’s challenging but everyday is better. We’re looking forward to finally going home.
This record represents so many things for us. It’s Madi‘s big debut, her second set of recordings and first ever LP singing for YOTK. In my opinion she CRUSHES. It was super hard to come to the decision to release the record while she’s still recovering. The record was originally supposed to start rolling out in July but with everything that happened we thought it best to wait.
Now that Madi‘s more aware of what’s going on I think she’ll be really excited. And we’re really excited to share this record with all of you. Our influences are all over the place for this record. This was the second time each of us wrote music for the record–like Dust to Dust where we each wrote a song, we all contributed. Madi even wrote a breakdown. It was an awesome experience learning how we each express ourselves musically. This is what I’ve got.”
Andrew Kisielewski, the drummer, added:
“At the end of June we had arguably the worst thing that can happen to a band happen to us. I sustained two dislocated and fractured ankles, had two surgeries in the span of days, spent over a month in a wheelchair, another challenging month on crutches, and now as of yesterday I’m officially walking completely unassisted. It’s crazy that all of this happened just three months ago, and that glimmer of normality already approaches us all faster than we would ever expect.
Given our current state, it wasn’t easy to make the decision to put out a record. It’s hard to say when we’ll be back in full swing, but for now we couldn’t be more excited to share this with everyone. In approaching writing, it was an unspoken consensus that our new lineup opened the door to evolve our sound even further.
The overall dynamic, individual influences, and equal contribution between the four of us birthed something beyond anything we’ve done before. This record is the perfect culmination of us. It’s everything we wanna play, it’s everything we wanna hear, it’s 20 solid minutes of nothing but pure YOTK. To say I love this thing is an understatement, and I hope at least one of you finds a love for it the same way we do.”
No Love Lost track listing:
01 – “Sometimes”
02 – “Wish”
03 – “Mourning The Living”
04 – “Alice”
05 – “Last Laugh”
06 – “Your Control”
07 – “Heaven Denied”
08 – “Return The Agony”
09 – “No Love Lost”
