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„Nigel The Gannet“ by The Burning Hell 
off forthcoming album Garbage Island (June 24) https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-burning-hell-garbage-island-vinyl-cd


The Burning Hell preview the upcoming and highly anticipated opus/epic Garbage Island with a sweet-hearted examination of the life of an individual in society, a world filled with good intentions but inevitable misunderstandings. 

It just so happens that it’s the story of a bird: Nigel The Gannet. 

(Nigel the Gannet is the true story of a gannet in New Zealand, who briefly became an international media star when he died of old age next to the concrete decoy gannet he had chosen as his mate. Though the press spun his story as a lonely one, the band takes a different perspective:)

Gently referencing XTC’s own Making Plans for Nigel, but trading the capitalist alienation and dread for a warmer new wave of synth hooks and programmed swing, The Burning Hell celebrate the loner, the non-conformist, and a life on the edge, aware of the difference between being lonely and being alone.

The animated video for the song was done by Ariel Sharratt, who says: "Ultimately, as a smallish band if there's something we want to do, we usually have to do it ourselves. That was the case for this video, where I learned some basics of animation and then taught myself on the job. This was my first animation project, and I absolutely loved the process of creating a world for Nigel to navigate -- a world that's like ours: full of incredible beauty, colossal waste and destruction, and hopefully some sort of happy ending."

Video: https://youtu.be/ST4BCEu88po

The Burning Hell - 2. Nigel The Gannet

Norwich alt/noise-rock band Eat Your Own Head are proud to announce details of their debut album Neck-Deep In The Blyth set for release on 20th May 2022 via Drongo Records.

The forthcoming debut was recorded by Tom Peters (Alpha Male Tea Party, Bicruious, The Hyena Kill) at Trapdoor Studios and mastered by Katie Tavini (Los Bitchos, Arlo Parks, Zuzu).

Heralding the album news, the band are streaming lead single ‘Bullets’ in full—a hefty slab of chunky, distorted riffs threaded with snaking, math-rock influenced lead guitar lines and guttural growls—which is released on all good digital service providers on 22nd February 2022.

The first release from the forthcoming debut album later this year, ‘Bullets’ is 160 seconds of unrelenting power and energy. Commenting on the track, the band said: “Lyrically the track reminisces on a playful youth tinted with the difficulties of maintaining human connection. The lyrics ‘Time out, play dead. I can’t hold on to my old friends.’ are a reflection on solitary tendencies.”

Neck-Deep in the Blyth

Bullets

The first single from The Blackheart Orchestra's forthcoming album. Set for release 26.08.22.

Under The Headlights (Radio edit)

Listen and Pre-order on LP/CD/DL: https://linktr.ee/Eatyourownhead

The track is the latest release to be taken from the forthcoming debut album 'Neck-Deep in the Blyth' set for release on 20th May 2022 via Drongo Records.

Eat Your Own Head present an enticing blend of rich, heavy alt-rock that sidesteps some of the genre's more obvious pitfalls and replaces them instead with muscular vocals, hooks, and a technical and unpredictable musicality.

The Concrete Of Moulded Men

Ultraverse

Denied

Come Undone

Winter Takes Its Toll

The new EP 'The Trawler by Eat Your Own Head
Out May 31st 2024

Hardwired

Our second professional studio album done at Empire Sound Studios in Dallas, TX, with our favorite engineer Matt Kennedy! If you like what you hear, come see us on Facebook!

01 Together Alone

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Drawn together by a collective yearning to play extremely loud music (as all the best heavy bands are) Eat Your Own Head present an enticing blend of rich, heavy alt-rock that sidesteps some of the genres more obvious pitfalls and replaces them instead with muscular vocals, hooks, and a technical and unpredictable musicality that evokes comparisons to early Marmozets, Blacklisters, Blakfish, and &U&I.

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Eat Your Own Head

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