This Friday, Filth Is Eternal are releasing their second album since changing their name to something a little more family-friendly—yet equally metal—after releasing their 2018 hardcore-punk debut under the moniker Fucked and Bound. With Find Out, the Seattle-based trio explores an ever-broader spectrum of heavy music, from crust and grunge to other alt-metal variants popularized in the ’90s. Meanwhile the record’s latest single “Cherish” makes a strong case against anachronism with the two-minute track bordering on the festival-ready riffs of Turnstile, as vocalist Lis Di Angelo’s arena-filling howls echo in a similar manner to those of that crossover band.
For the track’s Di Angelo–directed visual, the group leans into the avant-garde with imagery and staging specifically invoking two touchstones of 20th century expressionism. As Di Angelo explains, “I wanted to mash two of my favorite things together, black box theater and Lynchian style, and marry that with something I overheard a stranger say that has occupied space in the back of my mind for years: ‘This is all a dream, and you will spend the entirety of your existence at the center of a push-pull event, somewhere between owning this dream and this dream owning you.’”
Check out the video—which involves lots of flowers being chewed and spit back out—below, and pre-order Find Out here.
