Cage Fight Gear Up for Summer Festivals with Release of “My Dreams”
International hardcore/thrash crossover band Cage Fight have released a music video for the track “My Dreams” ahead of their first festival appearance of the year. The track was taken from the band’s self-titled debut album, but according to guitarist James Monteith it originally sounded significantly different from the tune you got today.
“The original version of ‘My Dreams’ is a slow building, almost proggy track that closes our debut album and it was never intended as a single. However, it’s been a big hit live so we reworked it into a snappy more immediate song, and we felt it worked so well it was worth releasing to the world. It also serves as a nice transition to our new music which has taken a darker turn.”
Comprised of bassist Will Horsman, drummer Nick Plews (Corpsing and Aghast), TesseracT guitarist James Monteith and former Eths vocalist Rachel Aspe, the band is a veritable supergroup that spans multiple countries.
As for the video, which you can check out below, it was directed by Alexandre Stark. Aspe said she was particularly happy with how the video captured the track came out.
“Filmed at BTS Audiovisuel – Lycée Suge in Paris, director Alex Stark (who is also the guitarist in our good friends Gravity) captured the misery and struggle of the song perfectly. It visually represents feelings of isolation and when fighting forward, internal battles, and understanding meaning and purpose. Persevering in the face of life’s challenges and defeating internal demons.”
According to Monteith, the band’s currently working on their second album, though they’re not ready to announce any further details at the moment. Still, he’s expecting the new release to sound like an even more refined version of Cage Fight.
“Our second album is about 70% written and we’re very excited to get in the studio to record it later this year. We wrote the first album in 6 months of knowing each other and it was born from pure chemstry, but now we’ve had a few years to really discover our sound, which is deeper, darker and more agressive. We can’t wait to unleash it on the world!”
Cage Fight currently have some summer festival appearances lined up, with their first slated for next Wednesday at Norway’s Inferno Fest. You can find the dates for all that below.
Currently announced dates:
27 Mar: NO Inferno Fest
06 Jun: PL Mystic Festival
20 Jun: BE Fontaine-l’Évêque, MCP Apache (headline)
21-23 Jun: – DE Full Force
28 Jun: UK Funeral Fest (headline)
