SpiritWorld share new single "Abilene Grime" & music video; announce new album 'Helldorado'

Western themed metal outfit SpiritWorld have shared a second new single, "Abilene Grime", from the upcoming new album, Helldorado, releasing March 21st via Century Media Records. The new single is paired with a Todd Hailstone-directed video.

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Frontman Stu Folsom shared the following:

I am thrilled to share that our new album, Helldorado, will be available everywhere, March 21st. We took most of last year off from playing shows, to hunker down and make this record with Sam Pura at the infamous Panda Studios.

This record, more so than the last two, I think you hear way more fearlessness and confidence in the choices. Things that were showing up as interludes have manifested into fully fleshed out pieces. At its heart, Helldorado is a punishing, unrelenting masterclass in crossover and hardcore thrash. But in a scene where every riff has been played before and every great band has thirty contemporary acolytes mining their catalog and doing worship albums, there is something in the strangeness of Helldorado that makes it endearing.

Maybe it is a risk to incorporate things that will be pretty far out there for the casual punk or metalhead, but having the opportunity to make a record comes with a responsibility to me. I dreamed of making records for so long. Way before I could play guitar or do any of the practical things you need to be able to do. I take it very seriously to follow my gut and let my style hang out on these records. I only want to do things in life that I am all in on. If that makes me an outcast or even more fringe than your average underground music act then that's okay. The stench of being genuine is beautiful.

Lyrically, Helldorado explores new territory as well. While SpiritWorld's first two albums were companion pieces to Folsom's book, Godlessness, Helldorado moves beyond that book's pages, to tell the story of what happens next. "Godlessness leaves off in a cliffhanger where all the surviving characters have managed to arrive at a villa in Mexico near where a rumored gateway to hell is said to exist. Helldorado is the first glimpse that fans will get into some of what is unfolding in the next novel that I am working on, that tells the story of what happens with these characters and the gates of hell.

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Helldorado tracklist:
1. Abilene Grime
2. No Vacancy in Heaven
3. Western Stars & The Apocalypse
4. Bird Song of Death
5. Prayer Lips
6. Waiting on the Reaper
7. Oblivion
8. Cleansing
9. Stigmata Scars