ONCE HUMAN have unveiled their blistering new single, “Cold Arrival”, which is taken from their upcoming album “Scar Weaver”. You can check it out below.
Speaking to Metal Hammer about the single, vocalist Lauren Hart and guitarist Logan Mader opened up about the track’s meaning.
“This one is incredibly personal to us, because it was written for a friend that passed away suddenly in 2020 from unknown causes,” Lauren explains. “He was a spin teacher, someone very healthy that you wouldn’t expect to suddenly be taken away, so it really came as a shock. Cold Arrival was written for him, remembering all the joy that he brought into our lives and how he made us better people – not only physically, but emotionally.”
“We would all go to his place all the time,” Mader adds. “He was really good to us; even when the pandemic first hit, he gave us the keys so we would have a private gym to work out in.”
“Plus, he used to play metal whenever we were there,” Lauren says. “There would be really old people in the class but he’d do it just for us ha ha. He never told us that he was a professional pianist either; he was an incredible musician and had graduated from a music college. It was a very strange feeling for me, especially as I never really dealt too much with death besides my grandparents so it’s the first real experience I had with loss, so all of that stuff went into Cold Arrival.”
ONCE HUMAN have already released the tracks “Only In Death” and “Deadlock” from the album, the latter of which features Mader’s ex-MACHINE HEAD bandmate Robb Flynn as a guest vocalist.
“You generally don’t see Robb popping up on other people’s albums, so I was really happy when he agreed to join us for Deadlock,” Mader says. “We knew we wanted a guest feature vocalist on the song anyway and Robb made perfect sense. He jumped right in and was involved creatively; he really took the reins and wanted to do some arrangement changes, which we really liked”.
ONCE HUMAN were formed by Hart and ex-MACHHINE HEAD guitarist Logan Mader in 2014. The band’s third album, “Scar Weaver” is due for release on February 11 via EarMusic.
