For years, From Ashes To New have captured the hearts and minds of music listeners worldwide, making an impact with a distinctive amalgam of alt metal combined with songs that bracingly capture their generation’s anxieties.
Their next album Reflections, out April 17 via Better Noise Music features 12 new songs that brim with even more confidence and power than ever before. To kick this off, the band has shared a video for the track “Villain.”
On “Villain,” rather than singing from the perspective of the person who knows their partner is so bad for them that it’s toxic but they still stick around. Vocalist Matt Brandyberry flips the perspective. Here, he takes the other person’s viewpoint.
“‘Villain’ is a story about the magnetic pull between two people who know better, but dive in anyway,” says Brandyberry. “It’s the moment when desire outweighs consequences, when you choose the chaos you swear you shouldn’t want, and the ‘bad guy’ becomes the one voice you can’t quiet. The song leans into that dark, intoxicating tension where temptation feels like truth, danger feels like comfort, and the line between thrill and destruction disappears. It’s not about saving each other…it’s about surrendering to the part of yourself you pretend doesn’t exist.”
Sounds like a modern day tragic love story to me. I’ll give you a minute to check it out…
- The band has also shared videos for the tracks “New Disease,” and “Drag Me.”
- By late 2023, the band was at a creative crossroads. The group wrapped up demos for 16 songs for what was to be its fifth studio album. However, instead of sprinting towards the finish line and completing the record, the band decided to scrap those demo sessions. The process went against everything they have done before and scrapping the sessions and mainly starting anew (they kept two songs) was liberating.
- When they scrapped those sessions, the band collectively knew they had to make something that remained true to their traditional sound yet broadened the tent to capture the ears and focus of a fresh audience. In this case, it means furthering the sound into alt-metal.
- The Lancaster, PA band’s streaming figures are in the billions, they’ve successfully sold-out tours, and performed alongside some of the biggest names in rock such as In This Moment, Motionless In White, Fit For A King, Asking Alexandria, Set It Off, and tons more.
- Reflections will mark the follow-up to 2023’s BLACKOUT, which achieved the #1 spot on several iTunes and Spotify Rock and Metal charts across the globe.
- The band hits the road supporting Black Veil Brides on a massive 42 day US Tour starting in late April. View dates here.
This time around, From Ashes To New had loftier expectations and goals. “I wanted to take what we are good at and push it even further,” Brandyberry says. “That was the process for this whole record.”
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