Melted Bodies Unveil Forthcoming Album The Inevitable Fork, Single “Bloodlines” Out Now
Avant-garde metal act Melted Bodies are back and they’re going to drop their sophomore album The Inevitable Fork on their own on October 18. To celebrate that fact, they’ve released the album’s first single “Bloodlines,” which you can check out below.
Consisting of three separate EPs smashed together into one full-length album, The Inevitable Fork is described as an “experimental genre-blending record that pushes the limits of what’s expected of modern metal and showcases the emerging talent of one of the scene’s most innovative and volatile bands around.”
Speaking of the absolutely frenzied and frenetic track “Bloodlines,” vocalist Andy Hamm explained that it’s all about the traits — good and bad — that get passed down from previous generations.
“’Bloodlines’ toils and tussles with the idea that all of us have unique pre-loaded behaviors, emotions and traits in our bloodlines. The past addictions, traumas, bodily shapes, love, nurture, disease etc. are passed down to us generation after family generation. I find myself longing for an emotional and physical tenderness that my mother held back on at points, paying for mistakes that my father perhaps made, a history of alcoholism and depression on both sides of my family etc. We spend a majority of our lives yearning to fix, understand or struggle with these genetics we never asked for.”
Hamm also spoke a little about The Inevitable Fork, saying that even though it’s born of three different EPs, there’s enough there to create an ‘overarching theme’ that the listener should be able to pick up on.
“We all have arrived at, or are approaching our own version of what I call ‘The Inevitable Fork’, and this overarching theme informs most of these songs in some way, much of which is very personal. Our bloodlines, mental health, past traumas, accomplishments, and regrets eventually lead us all to choose one of this fork’s many prongs to follow. Maybe we accept that it’s all imperfect, and we embrace our flaws to make anew or try again. Or perhaps we avoid, stall, numb, or overindulge. We’ve all been told “it’s now or never,” but yet we have heard that so many times. This stigma feeds our avoidance, unaccountability, and utter laziness. But rest assured ‘The Inevitable Fork’ is coming for us all whether we appreciate it or appall it.”
The Inevitable Fork will be available on October 18, but you can preorder your copy today.
