Dinosaur Pile-Up unleash “five years of pent-up emotion” with comeback single ’Bout To Lose It

Dinosaur Pile-Up have returned with a brand-new single, ’Bout To Lose It.

Not only that, but the beloved Leeds rockers have quite the comeback story to go with it, with frontman Matt Bigland revealing that the six years since 2019’s excellent Celebrity Mansions album have involved battling ulcerative colitis and going into critical care.

“People don’t relate things like health crises with being a dude in a band,” he says. “We’re more associated with rocking out and having a great time – even more so with today’s Instagram culture. At my lowest point, I couldn’t have felt further from being that dude onstage playing to a big crowd. That was difficult to rationalise. I was skin and bones, wrecked, feeling like I was going to die, wondering what had happened to me and why.”

Speaking about returning with ’Bout To Lose It, Matt says that the track is “about feeling completely and utterly on the edge of your capacity emotionally. I wanted to write a song that had an intro that would correctly set the scene as the first track back after a four- or five-year break from being out ‘in the world’ due to ill health. I wanted it to be intense and visceral. And I wanted it to be heavy metal.”

Check out ’Bout To Lose It below:

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