Gore. Announces Signing To Spinefarm, Release Music Video for "Babylon"

Metal trio Gore. has announced that they have signed to Spinefarm, and will ber releasing their forthcoming EP, A Bud That Never Blooms, on October 24th, 2024. You can click here to pre-order. The EP was produced by Miserable Productions, with Ben McGuiness and Caleb Friehaut serving as co-producers. Mixing was done by Cody Stewart.

In a press release announcing the signing, the EP, and the music video, vocalist Haley Roughton stated the following:

"'Babylon' is about my desire to have a pure, somewhat traditional love. The dream of having a strong and loving husband, with children and an unconditionally loving home being the center of my universe (and is what I felt I lacked in my childhood). Through the years, and all of the relationships I have failed to sustain, that dream has yet to come true. This song is the eulogy of that dream. In other words, 'Babylon' is the action of putting that dream of being a wife and a mother to rest, for now."

"The music video uses religious imagery to depict the dream for a pure, unconditional love that is slowly dying. In the video, the pastor can be seen as everything that causes a relationship to fail — ego, external pressure from others, unhealed inner wounds — even the other person in the relationship. The pastor is seen slowly killing the woman with the dream by holding her underwater, while she is seen crying and begging for the life she wants. From the action of killing her emerges a creature that is completely stripped of hope and innocence. The sludgy, disturbing human-like being can be seen as a symbol of cynicism, resentment and vengeance."

You can view the music video in its entirety below.

Main Photo Credit: Porsche Aremia