Magnolia Park, from Orlando, Florida, are releasing their new single "WORSHIP" today, just ahead of their recently announced concept album VAMP, which will follow on April 11 via Epitaph Records.
While the five-member band destroys and reconstructs conventions of nu-metal and metalcore on the upcoming album, "WORSHIP" stands as proof of their versatility.
The link to WORSHIP is as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UCOK5Wv-c
The backstory of VAMP was heavily inspired by the band's love for anime, horror, and fantasy, as well as by the long-standing Vampire Hunter D and cult works like Star Wars, Dracula, and Joseph Campbell's legendary monomyth. The album serves as the soundtrack to an ominous journey through the fictional world of Nocturne Nexus, where rulers and rebels fight for the future.
Last month, the band unveiled the extensive storyline with their fast-paced lead single "CULT" and introduced the protagonist Aurora X1, who rallies her followers for an epic showdown against a dark force. "WORSHIP" serves as the sonic embodiment of their arch-nemesis Obsidion, who employs treacherous mind control tactics to deceive his followers and draw them into battle against Aurora's army.
Across the 11 tracks of "VAMP" – internally produced by the band's producers along with Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Wage War), Hiram Hernandez (blessthefall, Real Friends), and Andy Karpovck (408, Taylor Acorn) and mixed by Zakk Cervini (Bad Omens, Bring Me The Horizon) – the soundtrack of Magnolia Park is a dramatic tale of purple blood and chrome courage through their own blend of human and machine. They stack buzzing electronics and industrial undertones alongside hammering breakdowns, walls of detuned guitars, and splitting vocals, modifying their uplifting pop-punk anthems into something heavier and more complex.
The roots of the project lie in Australia: After triumphant performances before thousands at the Good Things Festival 2023, the band was more encouraged than ever to take a new musical direction. They decided to revisit the heavier influences they had already experimented with on Halloween Mixtape II (2023) and add a wild edge to their signature sound. This led to the creation of "SHALLOW" last summer, one of the first songs written for the follow-up. Praised for its "thundering instrumentation" (idobi), it prompted the band to think on a larger scale about what the next songs could be. Soon, they were busy working out the details of the album and creating characters, settings, and narratives that would add new layers of complexity and creativity to their already captivating sound.
Since their formation in 2018, the prolific five-member band – vocalist Joshua Roberts, guitarists Tristan Torres and Freddie Criales, drummer Joe Horsham, and bassist Vincent Ernst – has tirelessly explored the boundaries of genres and storytelling, releasing a mixtape, 4 EPs, a slew of singles, and 2 full albums that have amassed an impressive 215 million streams to date.
While the five-member band destroys and reconstructs conventions of nu-metal and metalcore on the upcoming album, "WORSHIP" stands as proof of their versatility.
The link to WORSHIP is as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UCOK5Wv-c
The backstory of VAMP was heavily inspired by the band's love for anime, horror, and fantasy, as well as by the long-standing Vampire Hunter D and cult works like Star Wars, Dracula, and Joseph Campbell's legendary monomyth. The album serves as the soundtrack to an ominous journey through the fictional world of Nocturne Nexus, where rulers and rebels fight for the future.
Last month, the band unveiled the extensive storyline with their fast-paced lead single "CULT" and introduced the protagonist Aurora X1, who rallies her followers for an epic showdown against a dark force. "WORSHIP" serves as the sonic embodiment of their arch-nemesis Obsidion, who employs treacherous mind control tactics to deceive his followers and draw them into battle against Aurora's army.
Across the 11 tracks of "VAMP" – internally produced by the band's producers along with Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Wage War), Hiram Hernandez (blessthefall, Real Friends), and Andy Karpovck (408, Taylor Acorn) and mixed by Zakk Cervini (Bad Omens, Bring Me The Horizon) – the soundtrack of Magnolia Park is a dramatic tale of purple blood and chrome courage through their own blend of human and machine. They stack buzzing electronics and industrial undertones alongside hammering breakdowns, walls of detuned guitars, and splitting vocals, modifying their uplifting pop-punk anthems into something heavier and more complex.
The roots of the project lie in Australia: After triumphant performances before thousands at the Good Things Festival 2023, the band was more encouraged than ever to take a new musical direction. They decided to revisit the heavier influences they had already experimented with on Halloween Mixtape II (2023) and add a wild edge to their signature sound. This led to the creation of "SHALLOW" last summer, one of the first songs written for the follow-up. Praised for its "thundering instrumentation" (idobi), it prompted the band to think on a larger scale about what the next songs could be. Soon, they were busy working out the details of the album and creating characters, settings, and narratives that would add new layers of complexity and creativity to their already captivating sound.
Since their formation in 2018, the prolific five-member band – vocalist Joshua Roberts, guitarists Tristan Torres and Freddie Criales, drummer Joe Horsham, and bassist Vincent Ernst – has tirelessly explored the boundaries of genres and storytelling, releasing a mixtape, 4 EPs, a slew of singles, and 2 full albums that have amassed an impressive 215 million streams to date.
