Brighton duo WREX release new single ‘Heaven’s Gate’

WREX
RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘HEAVEN’S GATE’

‘THIS HELL GOES A LONG WAY DOWN’ EP DUE 16TH AUGUST

WREX 

Today, Brighton-based duo WREX have released their new single and music video for ‘Heaven’s Gate’. The track is the second to be taken from the band’s upcoming EP, This Hell Goes a Long Way Down, due 16th August. This Hell Goes a Long Way Down was engineered and produced by guitarist George Donogue, with other credits that include CassyetteHarpyRiver Becomes Ocean, and Orchards. The music video is “made up of footage we filmed of ourselves around Brighton, then converted to cartoon using AI, and made a “flick through” loop of the footage.

Watch the music video for ‘Heaven’s Gate’ here.
Stream ‘Heaven’s Gate’ here.
Pre-save This Hell Goes a Long Way Down here.

On the new single, WREX comment:
“I draw a lot on my own personal experiences in writing, and ‘Heaven’s Gate’ is something I think we have all lived through. It’s about the dissolution of a relationship, and the stages that we go through in dealing with and processing that. The song was initially inspired by us watching a very close friend of ours go through a really traumatic break-up, and how helpless they felt through that.” The track sees the post-harcdore guitars of Donoghue’s youth weave through an ethereal ocean of beats that serves to spotlight Seaton’s soaring melodic harmonies.

WREX – ‘Heaven’s Gate’

To celebrate the release of the upcoming EP, WREX will also be embarking on a string of headline dates that’ll take them around the UK in August. Ticket available here: https://wearewrex.com/.

16.08.24 – The Black Heart, London
17.08.24 – The Green Door Store, Brighton
23.08.24 – The Anvil, Bournemouth
24.08.24 – The Louisiana, Bristol
25.08.24 – Fuel, Cardiff
31.08.24 – The Portland Arms, Cambridge

WREX – ‘Heaven’s Gate’
Single Artwork 

About WREX:

“Absolutely phenomenal live band if you get the chance to see them.” – Melita Dennett (Radio Reverb, BBC Introducing)

Brighton-born duo WREX make electro-charged alternative rock to turbocharge heartbeats, snap necks and fill both dance floors and moshpits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park.

When George Donoghue and Mae Seaton met as perfect strangers on a night out, neither of them could have known how much they needed one another. But WREX, the band born of the pair’s chance connection some years later, has come to be exactly that: not simply a creative outlet but a need, an urge, a calling, a pure expression. This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound. “Working with someone that has as much excitement for making music as Mae is invigorating and inspiring for me,” Donoghue says. “Neither of us has any sort of ego when it comes to making music. No idea is ever off the table. A big part of the WREX ethos is never asking permission–that cuts to the core of both our sound and our DIY sentiment. WREX is ultimately about making art for the sheer joy of creating, and we want to convey that excitement on record and in our live show.” 

Band Members:
Mae Seaton – Vocals
George Donoghue – Vocals / guitars / synths
Tom Stevens – Guitar
Joe Constable – Bass
Greg Walton – Drums

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WREX – ‘This Hell Goes a Long Way Down’
EP Artwork Track Listing:
1. Take a Walk
2. Heaven’s Gate
3. This Hell Goes a Long Way Down
4. S.A.D
5. Shallow
6. The End