Today, Manchester alt-punk band The Empty Page have dropped their new album ‘Imploding’, via their own Vociferous Records. Due to having to battle ill health, a global pandemic and general life stuff, this is their first album since their debut ‘Unfolding’ in 2016.
To celebrate its release, they have unleashed a new single with a video called ‘I’m A White Hot Blade (Witches Are Wicked)’.
The video for the track was shot (by Camille Alexander) at Ember Ironworks in Skipton, where people can actually go and make a knife in the same way they would have done in decades past.
Lead singer Kel depicts the new track, “All the songs are personal to me on this and every record but ‘I’m A White Hot Blade’ is particularly close to my heart. I had been walking a lot in the hills of Lancashire, not far from where I grew up. It got me thinking about the real-life ‘witches’ that were massacred in this part of the world, the stories of what happened to them and other women (and some men) in other parts of the world. The unfathomable brutality towards people, particularly women, who were trying to heal and nurture. I had also been thinking more and more about women in politics and power, or the lack thereof. Thinking about how so many of the powerful men who currently run the world are running things in a way that I and many other people simply don’t approve of with war and violence and capitalism and power-hungry madness. How different it might be if there was more gender balance.”
She continues, “Often when people are oppressed and beaten down, they forge stronger bonds among their fellow oppressed and become more powerful. Fire can be used to damage and burn but it can also create powerful things – like white-hot blades. The song is about the incredible power that comes out of struggle.”
‘Imploding’ Track-listing:
Dry Ice
Cock of the Fifth Year
Life is a Wave
Medication Nation
I’m a White Hot Blade (Witches are Wicked)
Gorge (Oh Well)
Level Sedentary
Big Nasty Palpitations
Leaf Thin
What Happens Now?
Catch The Empty Page live at the following dates:
May 10 The Night Owl, London
May 16 Yes Pink Room, Manchester
June 1 The Parish, Huddersfield
July 6 Right To Roam Festival, Bolton
August 4 Rebellion Festival, Blackpool
Order the album here: https://theemptypageband.com/merch/
More on the band: https://theemptypageband.com/
