DEAD POSEY ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM AND RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘SCAR’

DEAD POSEY
ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM AND RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘SCAR’

‘ARE YOU IN A CULT?’ DUE 18TH OCTOBER

Today, LA alt-rock duo DEAD POSEY have announced the release of their long-awaited debut album, Are You In A Cult? Releasing on 18th October, the LP explores themes of false gods, corrupt politicians, manipulative celebrities and influencers, and biased news commentary. To celebrate the news, the band have released their new single ‘Scar’, available for streaming now.

Stream ‘Scar’ here.
Watch the ‘Scar’ visualiser’ here.
Pre-order Are You In A Cult? here.

On the inspiration behind the new single, vocalist Danyell Souza explains:
“This is the most vulnerable song we’ve written to date, and the last one we recorded for the album. It comes from the demons lurking in the corners of my mind and the monsters I feel creeping in the night – that feeling you get when you’re beat down by the world and don’t know how you’ll make it through. It’s a cathartic lullaby for all those that are lost going through their own dark nights of the soul. When we admit the pain is real – that’s when healing takes place and we can learn to live with the scars.”

As DEAD POSEY get set to release their long-awaited debut LP this autumn, a fascination with the more sordid parts of society have haunted their recording sessions and material, leading the band to ask: Are You In A Cult?

“We’ve been chomping at the bit to get this debut album out and are excited it’s finally happening. It’s been a long time coming with the early versions of some songs dating back a few years. The title Are You In A Cult? comes from us seeing what looks like mini-cults forming everywhere. Regular people getting tempted and manipulated to follow one charismatic leader, idea or worldview, often to their own harm. We’re all guilty of it at some point, but we hope asking the question can give people some power back.”

From cults and monsters to nightmares and devils, no topic is ever too taboo for the riotous rock duo DEAD POSEY. Since forming from the underbelly of Los Angeles in the twenty-tens, Danyell Souza and Tony Nova have confronted it all in their music – sexism, oppression and religious dogma – with a hearty dose of angst-ridden guitars and vocal howls that combine hallmarks of goth spirit and punk rebellion with ‘80s synth pop and ‘90s alt rock.

“We bonded over a shared love of rock music and the darker side of life,” says Souza who was pursuing acting, modeling and gogo dancing on the weekends to pay bills when she linked up with Nova (formerly of Eve 6). After spending a night in Nova’s studio and singing on a mic for the first time to Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’, a newfound passion was unlocked. As she says, “I knew from that moment in my bones that this is what I was meant to do in life.” That mission has been largely accomplished as electrifying originals like recent apocalyptic singles ‘Welcome To The Nightmare’ and ‘She Went Bad’, and punchy covers of classics like New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ and Depeche Mode’s ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ have echoed across the industry spectrum.

In less than 10 years and with just three EPs to their name, DEAD POSEY’s big hooks and powerful sound have found love from rock bibles like Loudwire and Kerrang!, a collective 42 million streams, billing on topline festivals like Download in the U.K. and Mad Cool and Rockland in Spain (where DEAD POSEY played to their largest crowd ever at 1:30 a.m.) and placements in a range of TV and movies, such as the WWE’s Elimination Chamber event, Fox’s Lucifer, MTV’s Teen Wolf, Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger, and CBS’ Fire Country.

DEAD POSEY song material always comes from a pandora’s box of inspiration, whether it’s fellow dark artists like Depeche Mode, Garbage, Nine Inch Nails, Hole and Type O Negative, or true crime docuseries, the surrealist worlds of Salvador Dali and the macabre poetry of Edgar Allen Poe.