MASSIVE WAGONS GET FIRED UP WITH NEW SINGLE “SLEEP FOREVER”

23rd October 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

Chief rock squad Massive Wagons are back with a brand new shot of musical adrenaline to get you fired up, dropping forthcoming album opener “Sleep Forever” today.

The head-bangin’, top-tappin’ track defies fans to stand still and comes from their forthcoming seventh studio album Earth To Grace – set for release on November 8 via Earache Records.

Frontman Barry ‘Baz’ Mills exclaims, “When the lads started riffing like that, and Alex came in with those drums, I knew this was gonna be an absolute killer and I loved the song immediately! I was away on holiday when Matt sent the final mix through along with a couple other tracks, but I couldn’t stop playing ‘Sleep Forever’ – I must have played it 10 times! And although I was stoked with the others he sent too, when I heard this I knew we’d really scratched an itch I had. Aggressive, hard, fast… it’s like Motörhead meets Rainbow. It has everything to me: huge riffs, gnarly guitars, and Alex’s drums are just blistering! Then you throw in the solos from Steve and Adam… it’s got it all I think – a proper headbanger! It was always going to be the album opener, a 100% kick in the face!“

Get the track here.

Meet the band at a record store near you this November to celebrate Earth To Grace! Get your store-bought copy of the album (including the indie exclusive orange vinyl and an exclusive CD edition with 2x bonus tracks) and perhaps you’ll witness a few acoustic tracks from the new album too!

For more information and to secure your spot, head to linktr.ee/massivewagonsinstore.

Note: Baz & Stevie will be at every in-store – however, some of the other band members won’t be at all locations.

The in-stores include:

Fri 8th Nov (Afternoon) – Wax & Beans, Bury

Fri 8th Nov (Evening) – HMV Vault, Birmingham

Sat 9th Nov (Afternoon) – HMV, Lancaster

Sat 9th Nov (Evening) – Jacaranda, Liverpool

Sun 10th Nov (Evening) – Fighting Cocks, Kingston

Mon 11th Nov (Afternoon) – Slice Of Vinyl, Gosport

Mon 11th Nov (Evening) – Vinilo, Southampton

Tue 12th Nov (Afternoon) – Rough Trade, Bristol

Tue 12th Nov (Evening) – Rough Trade, Nottingham

Wed 13th Nov (Afternoon) – Crash, Leeds

Wed 13th Nov (Evening) – Beartree, Sheffield

Fri 15th Nov (Evening) – Assai, Glasgow

Sat 16th Nov (Afternoon) – Assai, Dundee

Sat 16th Nov (Evening) – Assai, Edinburgh

Recently, the band announced their plans to take charity Andy’s Man Club on the road with them for their UK headline tour in November. Andy’s Man Club are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups, for men over 18 going through storms in their lives, with approximately 225 clubs meeting weekly across the UK and online. Clubs are free to attend with no registration required. Andrew Roberts, for whom the club is named, was only 23 years old when he took his own life. On average one man every two hours takes his life in the UK.

The charity will have a stall in the foyer of each venue, with 4-6 facilitators from local Andy’s Man Clubs at each UK tour date, roaming as welcoming “sweepers” amongst attendees, handing out wristbands, and sharing details of their local club meetings for more support. There will also be on stage talks during band changeovers and an interactive installation posing the five questions each meeting is structured around, for gig goers to answer. You can watch a video here of the band honestly considering the five questions themselves in their own impromptu meeting.

UK DATES – including Andy’s Man Club, with special guests Florence Black:

22 Nov – Rock City, Nottingham

23 Nov – SWX, Bristol

24 Nov – Engine Rooms, Southampton

26 Nov – O2 Institute, Birmingham

27 Nov – SWG3, Glasgow

29 Nov – O2 Ritz, Manchester

30 Nov – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London

The group also have two shows lined up in Dublin and Belfast in December:

6 Dec – Grand Social, Dublin

7 Dec – Limelight 2, Belfast

To see all dates and get tickets, visit massivewagons.com/live.

To find out more about Andy’s Man Club, email info@andysmanclub.co.uk or head to www.andysmanclub.co.uk.

Upcoming album Earth To Grace brings the anthemic muscle and punked-up gusto that Massive Wagons have made their name with, while adding a pinch of stardust that shoots the band into the stratosphere as master songcrafters. Earth To Grace found diverse inspiration in the sad passing of Sinéad O’Connor, the unsettling movie Sound Of Freedom, the “brutal” TikTok algorithm, and themes to ’80s TV shows like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Cities Of Gold.

Pre-order the album now on coloured vinyl, black vinyl, signed bonus edition CD and more at earache.com/massivewagons.

Earth To Grace smacks the bullseye every time when it comes to Wagons‘ ability to create memorable anthems. From the gleaming slow dancer “Night Skies”, to the match-striking dynamism of “The Good Die Young” (featuring Hundred Reasons‘ vocalist Colin Doran) and the landsliding force of Adam ‘Bowzer’ Bouskill’s bass and Alex Thistlethwaite‘s drumming on album opener “Sleep Forever”, every track is a head-turner in its own right. The album also sees the welcome return of the direct sincerity of Mills‘ lyricism, as well as Adam Thistlethwaite and Stevie Holl‘s twin guitars, which, entwine to create a hulking double helix of guitar brawn.