Saint Agnes have announced the digital deluxe edition of their latest album Bloodsuckers, due for release on 24th November via Spinefarm.
Bloodsuckers (Deluxe Edition) will feature four additional tracks, including remixes of ‘Animal’ and ‘Outsider’ and a live version of ‘This Is Not The End’.
Today, Saint Agnes have released a video for ‘Body Bag’, featuring rising trap-metal artist Mimi Barks.
Check out the video for ‘Body Bag’ here: https://youtu.be/lnI26i8wE0I
Stream/purchase Bloodsuckers here: https://sntagnes.lnk.to/BLOODSUCKERSID
Kitty A. Austen comments:
“We made a minute and a half of pure fury and there was only one person I could think of to match it. There’s nothing i love more than working with badass women. Hope you enjoy as much as I did making it.”
Saint Agnes have also announced a rescheduled and expanded UK headline tour, set to take place in January and February 2024. The tour follows the band’s recent shows supporting Skindred.
Hailing from the UK, Saint Agnes are all about honest lyrics, intense vocal performances, plus rage-fuelled music intended to give a voice to those closer to the fringe than the centre.
As much gang as band, Saint Agnes seek to empower those who’ve been battered and bruised yet refuse to lie down, and it’s a thread that runs deep within Bloodsuckers – SA‘s first album for Spinefarm, the follow-up to 2019’s Welcome To Silvertown, issued on the band’s own label.
In addition to … Silvertown, Saint Agnes have released a number of singles, videos and EPs, embarked on headline tours in both the UK and Europe, and appeared at a host of festivals, including Download, 2000trees, Isle of Wight and Kendal Calling.
Saint Agnes have also made big waves in the gaming world, with the release of Dead Island 2 in April. The game, which features the Saint Agnes song ‘And They All Fall Down‘, has sold over two million copies.
One thing’s for sure, it’s got nothing to do with rule-books or playing it safe…
From the title track (also lead single / video) onwards, Bloodsuckers is a genre-jumping body of work, taking in elements of metal, punk, industrial and grunge, without being bound by any specific style; the 11 tracks here come straight from the source, largely self-produced and mixed (NIN collaborator Sean Beavan lends his mixing and production skills to ‘Follow You’), and this self-contained approach provides an extra emotional weight throughout, with doom trap provocateur and Kerrang! cover artist Mimi Barks further fuelling the chaos on the short, sharp shock that is ‘Body Bag’.
Created in the months following the unexpected and untimely death of Kitty‘s mother, Bloodsuckers explores a number of themes, including mental illness, pent-up rage, undying love and, of course, grief; from the trash-metal howl into the night that is ‘Bloodsuckers’ right through to broken ballad, ‘This Is Not The End’, a poignant reflection of Kitty‘s still-raw emotions, this is a call to outsiders everywhere…
Concludes Kitty: “Creating this album gave me a reason to get to my feet at a time when I really wasn’t sure if I could. I’ve tried to put everything I’ve been feeling into it, all the pain, the rage, the grief, even the unexpected moments of beauty and belief. I hope it makes you feel less alone. I hope it makes you feel bigger, badder and stronger. We might be damaged but that doesn’t mean we’re worthless. This is a record for the defeated, the crushed. We might be broken but that doesn’t mean we’re not whole. Bloodsuckers forever, Saint Agnes forever.
Bloodsuckers (Deluxe Edition) tracklist:
1. Bloodsuckers
2. Animal
3. I Mean Nothing To you
4. Outsider
5. This Is Not The End
6. Follow You
7. I Am
8. At War With Myself
9. Middle Finger
10. Body Bag (ft. Mimi Barks)
11. Forever And Ever
12. Animal (House of Blood Remix)
13. Outsider (House of Blood Remix)
14. I Choose You
15. This Is Not The End (live)
Saint Agnes are:
Kitty A. Austen – Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Jon James Tufnell – Guitar, Vox, Bass
Andrew Head – Drums
Saint Agnes online:
https://www.facebook.com/wearesaintagnes
https://twitter.com/WeareSaintAgnes
https://www.instagram.com/wearesaintagnes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVjtrzewE0VgjsG9PONcEQ