Ahead of European tour including headline dates and shows with Killswitch Engage
Studio album ‘Fallen Star’ is out now via Spinefarm
“Employed To Serve smash all boundaries on exhilarating, perfect fifth album.”
– Kerrang! (5/5)
“This is their best album yet and a major contender for metal album of the year. Again. Now make this band absolutely massive!”
– Metal Hammer (9/10)
Watch ‘Treachery’ music vidOrder ‘Fallen Star’
Today, UK metal band EMPLOYED TO SERVE share an official music video for ‘Treachery,’ taken from their latest full-length, ‘Fallen Star,’ out now via Spinefarm. In addition, the band will be touring Europe starting late September, with most dates supporting the legendary Killswitch Engage.
About the track, Justine Jones comments:
“As soon as we wrote this song, we always knew it was going to be the opener. Just straight out of the gate riffs, and Sammy was also able to do his Tom Araya impersonation. This track is about people in your life letting themselves down, and by proxy letting those close to them down as well.”
“For the video, we wanted to go for a more stripped-back performance video to portray the raw energy of the song.”
Check out the music video for ‘Treachery,’ directed by Murry Deaves, HERE
ETS have played every type of big show imaginable, from Bloodstock through to Glastonbury in the UK and Hellfest, Wacken, and Roskilde across Europe. On their previous album, ‘Conquering,’ they pulverized arenas all over the UK and Europe in support of metal behemoths Gojira.
Since meeting in their teens on the outskirts of London, vocalist Justine Jones and guitarist / co-vocalist Sammy Urwin have had their sights fixed on the road ahead. At first, it was all about standing with the local scene bands they admired, but before long, they were forging a path of their own, lifers with a mission, evolving from the feral mathcore of their early EPs to detonating a full-throttle career high with 2021 album, ‘Conquering’.
And now there’s ‘Fallen Star,’ an 11-track tour-de-force that sees the collective EMPLOYED TO SERVE vision refined to an even sharper degree.
Produced and mixed by Lewis Johns, a longstanding presence behind the desk, it features a number of special guests, including Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach on ‘Whose Side Are You On?,’ Lorna Shore‘s Will Ramos on ‘Atonement,’ and Svalbard’s Serena Cherry on ‘Last Laugh.’
Kerrang! called the band’s fifth studio album “perfect” and “heroic,” whilst Metal Hammer insists that if ‘Fallen Star’ doesn’t make them “absolutely massive” then “God is dead and Satan is sleeping.”
A limited run of ‘Fallen Star’, ‘black sunburst,’ and ‘orange w/ black splatter’ vinyl is exclusively available HERE.
EMPLOYED TO SERVE have come, have seen, have conquered, and now reign supreme as one of Britain’s brightest stars, hell bent on forging their legacy of Heavy Metal Unity. Long may it continue.
EMPLOYED TO SERVE Live:
Sep 23-28 Full Metal Cruise
Sep 29 – Lisbon @ LAV *
Oct 1 – Madrid @ La Riviera *
Oct 2 – Barcelona @Razzmatazz *
Oct 4 – Milan @ Fabrique*
Oct 5 – Zurich @ Halle 622*
Oct 6 – Paris @ Bataclan *
Nov 20 – Cologne @ Palladium *
Nov 21 – Ludswigsburg @ MHP Arena *
Nov 22 – Berlin @ Columbiahalle *
Nov 24 – Prague @ Sasa Zu *
Nov 25 – Leipzig @ Haus Auensee *
Nov 27 – Hamburg @ Sporthalle *
Nov 28 – Copenhagen @ Amager Bio *
Nov 29 – Stockholm @ Fallan *
Dec 1 – Oslo @ Rockefeller*
Dec 3 – Helsinki @ House Of Culture *
Dec 4 – Tallinn @ Kinomaja
Dec 5 – Riga @ Melna Piektdiena
Dec 7 – Warsaw @ VooDoo Club
Dec 9 – Ghent @ Asgard
* supporting Killswitch Engage
EMPLOYED TO SERVE are:
Justine Jones – vocals
Sammy Urwin – guitar/vocals
David Porter – guitar
Nathan Pryor – bass
Casey McHale – drums
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‘Fallen Star’ Tracklisting:
1. Treachery
2. Fallen Star
3. Atonement (feat. Will Ramos)
5. Familiar Pain
6. Brother, Stand Beside Me
7. Now Thy Kingdom Come
8. Last Laugh (feat. Serena Cherry)
9. Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach)
10. The Renegades
11. From This Day Forward