The Goblin will be banging out tunes from new album Science, Not Fiction in October...
Orange Goblin have announced that they'll be hitting the road in the UK and Ireland in autumn. The London metal heroes will do eight shows starting in Dublin on October 4.
Last week, the band released (Not) Rocket Science, the first single from their forthcoming 10th album Science, Not Fiction. Speaking to Kerrang!, singer Ben Ward explained the deeper themes behind the record.
“Well, it's no secret that we're all fans of dystopian science fiction and cosmic horror and that sort of thing," he told us. "Since the last album, obviously, the world is a completely different place. With the COVID pandemic and everything, I feel like we're living in sort of a science fiction universe now. It almost seems like a different world, and things like what Orwell anticipated in 1984, it's all coming true – Big Brother is watching us, whether it's from our cell phones or whatever, the powers that be know where we are and what we're up to. So, we wanted to dive into that a little bit."
On the album's closing track, End Of Transmission, Ben said it ponders everything that's gone before, and whether it might be a full-stop.
"With this being the 10th album, that kind of ties in because the first album was obviously Frequencies From Planet 10, which was sort of picking up our first signal, our introduction to the world. And in this, the lyrics talk you through that almost 30-year career we've had, travelling time and cosmic frequencies and all that. It's kind of an autobiographical song. So, to end the album with it and leave that question mark – is this the last song we're gonna record? – was kind of the intention. I sincerely hope it's not. But who knows? We'll see where we go from here.”
Science, Not Fiction is released on July 19 via Peaceville. Full tour dates are...
October
4 Dublin Opium
5 Belfast Limelight 2
6 Glasgow King Tut's
8 Manchester Gorilla
9 Wolverhampton KK's Steel Mill
10 Bristol Fleece
11 Southampton The 1865
12 London The Dome
