Woe, Is Me Release New Single, Address Lineup Changes
I’m not sure what happened here, but metalcore outfit Woe, Is Me sent an email earlier today saying they were releasing their new single “Here’s To Me (A Story To Tell Pt. 2)” tomorrow, but the music video of said track is out right now after being premiered over on Metal Injection. So like… you don’t have to wait to tomorrow to listen to the new track because it’s already out in music video form. Weird.
The single will be made available (aside from the music video, that is) tomorrow via SBG Records. Speaking of the track, which you can once again listen to while watching the music video below, the band said it was the perfect first single for their upcoming and as of yet unannounced full-length album.
“As far as ‘Here’s To Me (A Story To Tell Pt. 2)’ we feel like this is the perfect first single. It pretty much has a little of everything that you can expect from this album and the direction we are going. We’re excited about the future and stoked to finally release new music.”
In addition to the track, the band announced that they’d officially parted ways with the Ferris brothers just weeks after founding keyboardist and vocalist Ben Ferris was kicked out of the group. Ferris had been part of the outfit since the original run of 2009 to 2012 and then rejoined when the band came back in 2022.
According to the band, they decided to move on from the Ferris brothers so they could more easily pursue the band’s future.
“First and foremost, we want to state officially that the band has parted ways with the Ferris brothers. Despite what you may or may not have read before now, decisions like this are never easy. We have no ill-will towards Ben and Cory and wish them the best, but we do want to explain things from our perspective. We have worked extremely hard over the last year on this new album. The amount of dedication and passion for the music has been our driving force, because that’s what brought us here to begin with; the love of music. Without going into detail about their involvement in the creation of this album, we’ll simply say that the album would’ve sounded the same whether they were in the band during the writing process or not. The lack of interest and participation in something the rest of us sacrificed so much for ultimately led to deciding to continue on as just the five of us.”
