Thrash metallers SpiritWorld are back with a brand new song, “Western Stars & The Apocalypse”, and video that blends H.P. Lovecraft and Western pulp for one hell of a wild ride.
Described as “a thrashing, 2-minute blitz of metallic hardcore, drenched in SpiritWorld's signature Old West occultism” “Western Stars & The Apocalypse” is the band's first new music to be revealed since the release of their acclaimed sophomore album, Deathwestern, in 2022.
The animated music video, directed by Rob Zombie collaborator Balázs Gróf, the “Western Stars & The Apocalypse” music video comes complete with cosmic beasts, rivers of blood, and SpiritWorld founder/frontman Stu Folsom's animated alter ego twerking on a grave, for one totally unique viewing and listening experience.
Per an official press release, Folsom speaks more on the influences behind the song and video:
“I wrote ‘Western Stars & The Apocalypse' right after Deathwestern came out, when we got home from touring Europe with Agnostic Front. I was revisiting a lot of Bob Dylan in my bunk on that tour and there is a nod to his song ‘Desolation Row' in the lyrics.”
“I really love Gróf's work and I just turned him loose with the song. It’s a weird, spooky, animated trip through the underworld!”
The song was engineered and mixed by longtime SpiritWorld producer Sam Pura and mastered by Alberto de Icaza (King Crimson, Clutch).
The “Western Stars & The Apocalypse” video also seems to take inspiration from Folsom's first published book, Godlessness. Set in a fictional Old West, the collection of short stories follow an unlikely group of cowpunchers, a bounty hunter, a depraved necrophiliac preacher, and a small band of Comanches, as they do battle with demonic forces.
Stream “Western Stars & The Apocalypse” now on all platforms, and enjoy the brand new video below:
