FINAL GASP Touring North America

FINAL GASP Release New Single “No Hand To Lead”

Next week Final Gasp embark on a headlining North American tour and release their forthcoming album, New Day Symptoms. They give us a final preview today with “No Hand To Lead”, a ripping, cathartic third single about remembering those we’ve lost. Steeped in nocturnal, death rock adventurism, driven with post-punk anxiety and hardcore punk intensity, Final Gasp’s second studio album places itself within a lineage, summoning up and amplifying a spectrum of powers from rock’n’roll lore, it makes them resonate in the here and now. New Day Symptoms gives voice to fears and frustrations lurking just under the surface of waking consciousness and turns them into a rallying cry.

Where Final Gasp’s acclaimed 2023 debut, Mourning Moon, was a concentrated shot of acrid, underground death rock, its propulsion tanks largely filled with references to Samhain and Killing Joke, New Day Symptoms keeps all the core urgency while vastly broadening its scope. With new space to explore, this is an album that feels communal, a mapping of personal trials and dark recesses onto a map dotted with rafters-rousing marker points.

https://youtu.be/CjQbDysJioE?si=eRGEdRRDzi0NAAso

Final Gasp’s ability to meld opposing forces into something vibrant and new is encoded into their DNA. The process of forging a sound that combined but went beyond their musical background and musical obsessions was one that took a lot of soul-searching, taking them on a path whose destination remains open-ended.

“I think we’re still figuring it out, to be honest,” says Jake. “It’s like most things when you start out you have a vision and stick to it, we just quickly realised we could do so much more with it. We blossomed into this group of people that all have similar influences, but see them from different perspectives. We could hear the band beginning a new chapter.”

One of the main reasons for the broadening of the band’s sound on the new album is that New Day Symptoms was written much more as a democratic process than Mourning Moon.

“It was a total hands-on, involved process between all of us,” Murphy enthuses. “Because everything was on the table and everyone’s ideas were blending together really well. Naturally we still rely on what we’re used to, but this time we let ourselves explore different tones. And we were all so open and receptive to each others’ ideas that writing and recording this record was more of a collaboration. Having Arthur (Rizk, producer) produce this record opened even more ideas to us.” 

It’s that open-mindedness while still being fully in touch with your underground roots that gives New Day Symptoms such a galvanizing force. It’s one of those rare killer rock’n’roll albums whose conviction and honesty make it unique, primed to stand the test of time, and as acclaimed tours with bands as diverse as Abbath, Gatecreeper, Fiddlehead, Poison Ruin, Devil Master and Imperial Triumphant make clear, unlimited in their appeal.

New Day Symptoms was produced by Arthur Rizk and sees its release February 27 via Relapse Records.

FINAL GASP release “Burials of Birth” single/video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_yTA_y6bE

Boston Death Rockers Final Gasp Release New Single And Video “The Apparition”

Steeped in nocturnal, death rock adventurism, driven with a post-punk anxiety that feels increasingly like the twitching heart of our modern age, and driven by hardcore punk intensity, the second studio album from Boston’s Final Gasp, New Day Symptoms, does what all great rock records do. Not only does it place itself within a lineage, summoning up and amplifying a spectrum of powers from rock’n’roll lore, it makes them resonate in the here and now. It gives voice to those fears and frustrations lurking just under the surface of waking consciousness and turns them into a rallying cry.

Throughout New Day Symptoms, Final Gasp create a potent reaction from the furious and the forlorn as frontman Jake Murphy vocalizes both a supercharged howl into the void and a remorseful echo back. Lead single “The Apparition” is “A story of reality being much more horrifying than fiction,” Jake tells. “It’s about a captain and his crew on a small boat.  A storm came and capsized it and he and his two crew members were forced to swim to some sort of safety. Ultimately only he survived, having to watch his two friends be taken away by something that could have been avoided. He knew a storm was coming but thought they could make it. It’s all about bad timing and facing the consequences.” “The Apparition” is available today with its haunting video directed by Caleb Gowett and Bill Politis.

https://youtu.be/BNmbSV9dHvk?si=EAXjxfrhpLqugi1d

Final Gasp Live Dates:

Feb 26: Cambridge, MA – Sonia
Mar 01: Cincinnati, OH – Dsgn Clltcv
Mar 02: Kansas City, MO – Howdy
Mar 04: Denver, CO – Bar 404
Mar 05: Salt Lake City, UT – Aces High Saloon 
Mar 07: Portland, OR – The High Water Mark 
Mar 08: Vancouver, BC – The Cobalt 
Mar 09: Seattle, WA – The Funhouse 
Mar 11: Sacramento, CA – Cafe Colonial 
Mar 12: Oakland, CA – Stork Club 
Mar 13: Los Angeles, CA – The Moroccan Lounge
Mar 14: Joshua Tree, CA – Joshua Tree
Mar 15: San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
Mar 16: Mesa, AZ – The Nile Underground 
Mar 19: Tulsa, OK – Whittier Bar 
Mar 20: Austin, TX – The Lost Well 
Mar 21: Dallas, TX – Dusty’s 
Mar 22: Little Rock, AR – Vinos

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FINAL GASP announce “The Apparition” video/single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNmbSV9dHvk

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FINAL GASP To Release New Day Symptoms Album In February; “The Apparition” Music Video Streaming

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Great when you get sick at Chistmas ay?

So instead of going to visit our Hungarian family, I will now just go and pick up the food they prepared and the present for the kid.

But at least now I have 1,5 hours time to listen to two albums I totally missed this year:

#MoonlightSorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

and

#FinalGasp - Mourning Mood

https://album.link/y/OLAK5uy_n8Sbh0J2sV7PyKaPdLDfjBk_5Nj-YECuc