After releasing three cinematic performance videos, Sweden’s ORBIT CULTURE have another special audio-visual treat up their sleeves: An elaborate visualizer created by the 3-D wizards at Crystal Spotlight for their new single, “Nerve,” which takes you straight to another dark dimension.
Watch the video here.
The band comments, “With ‘Nerve,’ we’re leaning back towards the older ORBIT CULTURE sound, blending in cleaner choruses and a twist at the end. This track has been with us for years — we just didn’t know what to do with it, especially since the verses felt a bit uncharacteristic for us. But that’s exactly what we ended up loving about it. Visually, the song felt too ‘larger-than-life’ for a standard performance video. After years of bouncing ideas with Miles Skarin at Crystal Spotlight, we knew this was the perfect track to bring into a fully realized 3-D world.”
“Nerve” is the fourth single taken from Death Above Life, scheduled for a release on October 3. “The album represents change, a new beginning,” says guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Niklas Karlsson. “It brings up a lot of good and bad emotions but it’s a big change for the better. It feels like a rebirth.”
| DEATH ABOVE LIFE TRACK LISTING: “Inferna” “Bloodhound” “Inside The Waves” “The Tales Of War“ “Hydra“ “Nerve“ “Death Above Life“ “The Storm” “Neural Collapse” “The Path I Walk” Death Above Life comes in various formats and is up for preorder with the first variant already sold out: *Ltd. CD Digipak *Gatefold black 2LP *Ltd. Gatefold greenish ReVinyl 2LP (600x) via cmdistro.de & selected Indie retailers, Orbit Culture & MerchCare (SOLD OUT) *Ltd. Gatefold transp. red 2LP (500x) via Levykuappa Äx (FIN), HMV (UK) & in France *Ltd. Gatefold neon yellow-black marbled 2LP (500x) via EMP *Ltd. Gatefold Sparkle Starlight 2LP (500x) via Orbit Culture & MerchCare — SOLD OUT *Ltd. Gatefold transp. light blue-black marbled 2LP (500x) via Orbit Culture live on EU tour *Gatefold fruit punch 2LP (US version) *Ltd. Gatefold transp. coke bottle green 2LP (US version) (1000x) via all US Indie retailers *Ltd. Gatefold white 2LP (US version) (300x) via Revolver Magazine *Ltd. Gatefold metallic golden 2LP (US version) (500x) via centurymedia.store, Orbit Culture & Night Shift Merch *Ltd. Gatefold black-grey marble 2LP (US version) (500x) via Orbit Culture & Night Shift Merch *Standard CD Jewelcase (Japan) *Digital AlbumPre-order Death Above Life here. |
| Catch Orbit Culture on their “Death Above Life” UK/EU tour this fall with Gaerea and Atlas in support. The band is also playing Japan for the first time in October. More info on Orbit Culture’s upcoming shows here. |
Hailing from the small town of Eksjö, Sweden (located between the revered metal cities of Gothenburg and Stockholm), the quartet (guitarist and vocalist Niklas Karlsson, guitarist Richard Hansson, bassist Fredrik Lennartsson and drummer Christopher Wallerstedt) have grown into a global force, melding together riffs that are equal parts thrash, death metal and industrial with arresting hooks and a layered atmosphere that invites comparison to Gojira, Metallica and Static-X while carving out something that is uniquely their own.
ORBIT CULTURE’s 2023 album, Descent and its subsequent EP release, The Forgotten topped many year-end lists in 2023 including Metal Hammer who described the album as: “a formidable entwining of modern metal’s most effective and exciting strands into an impressive milestone.” Exhaustive worldwide touring and a steady stream of crowd-pummeling festival slots across the globe have set the stage for something much larger.
Orbit Culture is a band poised. They are the sound of metal in the most modern sense.
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