Employed To Serve release new single, Breaks Me Down + April tour
EMPLOYED TO SERVE RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘BREAKS ME DOWN,’ FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM ‘FALLEN STAR’ VIA SPINEFARM - LISTEN HERE
APRIL UK HEADLINE TOUR
Best-of-British metal masters, Employed To Serve, release new single, ‘Breaks Me Down,’ the third track from their forthcoming album, ‘Fallen Star.’
“’Breaks Me Down’ deals with the uncertainty of death and what it means for us left here on earth when someone you love passes beyond the veil,” offers Employed To Serve front woman Justine Jones. “It is something we will all experience at some point in our lives and yet there is no one handbook that can guide you through the experience of grief. That being said, it makes life more precious and motivates you to make the most of the time we have with the people we love.”
Watch the playthrough for ‘Breaks Me Down,’ captured in the studio HERE.
Check out previous single/ video, ‘Fallen Star’ HERE and ‘Atonement’ featuring Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos HERE.
‘Fallen Star’ (the album) is due for release via Spinefarm on April 25th. Pre-orders, including a limited run of ‘black sunburst’ and ‘orange w/ black splatter’ vinyl are exclusively available HERE.
“We want to fly the flag for heavy metal and the traditions that it holds,” offers guitarist and songwriter Sammy Urwin, “But at the same time we want to play our part in taking things forward.”
Since meeting in their teens on the outskirts of London, vocalist Justine Jones and guitarist / co-vocalist Sammy have had their sights fixed on the road ahead. At first, it was all about standing with the local scene bands they admired, but before long they were forging a path of their own, lifers with a mission, evolving from the feral mathcore of their early EPs to detonating a full-throttle career high with 2021 album, ‘Conquering’.
And now there’s ‘Fallen Star’, an 11-track tour-de-force that sees the collective ETS vision refined to an even sharper degree…
Produced and mixed by Lewis Johns, a longstanding presence behind the desk, it features a number of special guests, including Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach on ‘Whose Side Are You On?’ and Svalbard’s Serena Cherry on ‘Last Laugh’.
TRACK-LISTING
Treachery
Fallen Star
Atonement (feat. Will Ramos)
Breams Me Down
Familiar Pain
Brother, Stand Beside Me
Now Thy Kingdom Come
Last Laugh (feat. Serena Cherry)
Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach)
The Renegades
From This Day Forward
ETS have played every type of big show imaginable, from Bloodstock through to Glastonbury in the UK, and Hellfest, Wacken and Roskilde across Europe. On previous album, ‘Conquering’, they pulverised arenas all over the UK and Europe in support of metal behemoths, Gojira.
In support of ‘Fallen Star’, Employed To Serve will headline venues across the UK this April, taking Celestial Sanctuary and Burner along as special guests; the 5-date stint finishes with their biggest London appearance to date, at 02 Academy Islington.
Following this, ETS will appear at a plethora of European summer festivals, - including Graspop (Belgium), Jera On Air (The Netherlands) & 2000 Trees (UK) - in addition to two July headline shows in Liverpool & Nottingham.
Details of further worldwide touring will be revealed in due course.
EMPLOYED TO SERVE UK HEADLINE TOUR DATES w/ CELESTIAL SANCTUARY & BURNER
APR 21 Wolverhampton @ KK’s Steel Mill
APR 22 Glasgow @ The Cat House
APR 23 Leeds @ The Key Club
APR 24 Cardiff @ Clwb Ifor Bach
APR 25 London @ 02 Academy Islington
JULY 10 Liverpool @ Rough Trade*
JULY 11 Nottingham @ Rescue Rooms*
*Employed To Serve only.
