Amsterdam-based heavy rockers Death Alley will release their second album, Superbia, March 23 as their debut on Century Media. The eight-track outing is rife with a progressive feel even beyond what the band brought to their 2015 Tee Pee Records first long-player, Black Magick Boogieland (review here), and no, I’m not just talking about the King Crimson-style chase scenes tucked into 11-minute closer “The Sewage.” It’s the whole record. Even as the opening push of “Daemon” seems to pick up where “Supernatural Predator” from the preceding full-length left off, it does so bringing together different sides of Death Alley‘s sound — the melody and the danger — the raw earth thrust and the outer space presence.

The four-piece have undergone a few changes since Black Magick Boogieland, and even since they released Live at Roadburn (review here), vocalist Douwe Truijens and guitarist Oeds Beydals bringing in bassist Sander Bus and drummer Uno Bruniusson as their new rhythm section. No doubt that switch in personnel had a hand in the corresponding sonic shift, as it invariably would, but as the band’s new single and video “Murder Your Dreams” showcases, it’s still very much the art of crafting memorable songs that’s at the heart of what Death Alley does. With that as firmly established as it is in “Murder Your Dreams” and throughout Superbia from whence it comes, Death Alley can pretty much go wherever they like stylistically. And they do.

I’ll have more on the album closer to the release itself, but I’m thrilled today to be able to premiere the video for “Murder Your Dreams,” which you’ll find below, followed by quotes from the band and from director Luuk Bouwman. Death Alley also have tour dates booked throughout the coming months and Superbia is available to preorder at the portal in the links at the bottom of the post. Can’t miss it.

Please enjoy:

Death Alley, “Murder Your Dreams” official video premiere

DEATH ALLEY – Murder Your Dreams (OFFICIAL VIDEO). Taken from the album “Superbia”, out March 23rd, 2018.

Death Alley on “Murder Your Dreams”:

“‘Murder Your Dreams’ shows a side of our musicality that was always there but never revealed itself in our music before. Just when we needed it, The Wipers came knocking and we crushed them to bits. A bittersweet taste of Superbia in its most compact form.”

Director Luuk Bouwman on the video:

“The video is based on chase and falling dreams — which I felt would fit well with the song. I remembered a great scene in the Nightmare on Elm Street series in which the characters are stuck in a loop. So I wanted to create a nightmare-like slapstick in which the protagonist is condemned to keep falling, eternally. I was already joking that it was an autobiographical story and as if it was an ominous prophecy, a day after finishing the video I fell really hard on a bridge because of black ice. I broke my arm, cheekbone and eye socket. So last week I was in surgery to reconstruct my face.”

Death Alley live:
23-03 (DE) Cologne – Jungle (release show)
24-03 (DE) Münster – Alterna Festival
30-03 (NL) Amsterdam – SkateCafe (release show)
31-03 (NL) Schijndel – Paaspop
13-04 (NL) Eindhoven – Stroomhuis
14-04 (NL) Groningen – LOLA
26-04 (NL) Den Haag – Life I Live
28-04 (NL) Rotterdam – V11
04-05 (DE) Berlin – Desertfest
06-05 (UK) London – Desertfest
08-05 (FR) Paris – Gibus*
09-05 (FR) Nantes – Feraullier*
10-05 (ES) San Sebastian – Dabadaba*
11-05 (ES) Barcelona – Upload*
12-05 (FR) Clermont Ferrand – Camille Claudel*
13-05 (CH) Olten – Coq D’Or*
15-05 (DE) Leipzig – NATO*
16-05 (DE) Nürnberg – Stereo*
17-05 (DE) Dortmund – FZW*
18-05 (DE) Lohr am Main – Umsonst und Drinnen Festival*
19-05 (DE) Lichtenfels – Paunchy Cats*
26-05 (NL) Raalte – Dauwpop
02-06 (NL) Nijmegen – Fortarock

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