On Thursday, we will be unveiling the second new song from the new album on YouTube. We have also produced a music video for ‘Kill Cloud’ together with our friends from Freak Shot. Be ready for it.
Starting Friday, the track will also be available on all streaming providers. See press text below:
The second single from thrashers ERADICATOR's new album ‘The Paradox’ is entitled ‘Kill Cloud’. The term Kill Cloud stands for the military use of the civilian internet and the information that our networked smart devices collect and transmit. The lyrics are explicitly inspired by an interview with a female drone pilot who took part in several real battlefields at the same time. She killed de facto people on the other side of the globe from her home office, in a country whose culture was foreign to her. The metaphors are reminiscent of a computer game and, together with the pilot's greatest concern, whether her hot coffee will be on her desk in the morning, represent the absurdity of the situation - the abstract military dehumanisation of killing.
The hammering, Tyrolean tom runs and double bass rhythms in the intro, verse and bridge are a special musical stylistic device here. In the choruses, ERADICATOR slow down in favour of the melody and groove. The attentive listener will certainly not miss the jazzy vibes in the drumming before the accelerator pedal is pressed down again in the bridge and the vocal line that closes the chorus brings you back into the world of unbridled thrash metal. The extended C section contains a special guitar solo that you immediately want to hear several times and reminds you of megadethesque compositions. ERADICATOR's joy of playing sweeps you away in the instrumental interlude of Kill Cloud, until the musical finale triumphs in thrashy style at the end of the song with increased drum and guitar parts.
The cover of the single shows a uniformed fighter from an elite unit, surrounded by ominous drones that only know the command ‘KILL’. The bombed-out backdrop visualises the cruelty of war. The young Ukrainian artist Alina Volnianska is responsible for the illustration, having created this work of art with an awareness of the sad reality of a destructive war of aggression to which her homeland is falling victim. The single, as well as the entire album, was mixed/mastered by Sebastian ‘Seeb’ Levermann (Orden Ogan, Asphyx, Brainstorm) and produced together with Seba Stöber.
