Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
The Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team Twin Temple, which consists of Alexandra and Zachary James, announced today that their third album, “Doomed Lovers,” will be released on October 9 via their own Pentagrammaton Records, as per Blabbermouth. The title-track single will be available on all digital platforms, following their most recent controversy. Twin Temple has also added a series of headline shows around their previously announced performances supporting Danzig after being abruptly removed from shows this past week by country music artist Charley Crockett due to their Satanic imagery. As a result, Jack White publicly invited the band to support him in Hollywood this September. The general public will be able to purchase tickets for all of the main dates starting on Friday.
This is the philosophical centerpiece of the album — a theatrical and confessional take on all or nothing love, the dark side of devotion and centuries old mythic literary Romantic themes. It longs for a love so enduring and eternal that it ultimately consumes, obliterates, and drives one to madness and death. At its core, it asks the question, ‘What happens when your lover dies?’ But what makes the song unique is that it rejects the conventional and culturally accepted answer — ‘I know I should tell you to find someone new/ — in favor of raw, unfiltered and selfish desire, things that would be shameful to speak in mundane reality. – About the new single
“Doomed Lovers” is Twin Temple’s most audacious release to date. The album, which was produced in the renowned Studio 3 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood by Grammy Award-winning producer Shooter Jennings, maintains the band’s dedication to traditional analogue recording while broadening its sound palette with sumptuous symphonic arrangements played by a 37-piece orchestra. “Doomed Lovers” is Twin Temple’s most personal and emotionally revealing song to date, and it was written during one of the band’s saddest times. The album is the band’s most ambitious and completely realised musical statement to date, expanding the cinematic sweep of their distinctive sound while staying grounded in the ageless roots of early rock ‘n’ roll.
We poured everything into this new record that we made with Shooter. We wanted to push ourselves creatively and expand the production further than we have before, drawing inspiration from the lush orchestral productions of Roy Orbison, The Ronettes and The Shangri-Las, and added in some Countrypolitan flair. We brought in some incredible musicians like Matt Chamberlain and Jay Bellerose, and a 37-piece orchestra. We wanted to make something as beautiful as we possibly could- of course with our dark spin on things.
The truth is this album was made during one of the darkest periods of our lives. We had been struggling with grief, health issues, addiction, and depression. But day by day, going into Sunset Sound, making music with incredible people who believed in us, and being surrounded by that creativity slowly brought us back to life. We started smiling and laughing again. I was becoming alive again. It connected us to why we fell in love with music in the first place and became our most personal album yet. – About the album
Tracklist:
01. Doomed Lovers
02. Possessed
03. I Want Blood
04. Love You To Death
05. Haunt Me
06. Someone In The Walls
07. Monster
08. Nothing Matters
