Seven Blood release haunting new single "Monsters"
Today, German-based alternative outfit Seven Blood have released their brand new single and music video for Monsters, produced by Anfy Hartmann, mixed by Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Holding Absence, Bury Tomorrow) and mastered by Dick Beetham. The track follows the release of their previous single As We Bleed, the cathartic House ≠ Home and their debut release Killing from the Inside, all of which are available for streaming now.
Channelling Seven Blood’s most technical influences – notably Architects and Bring Me The Horizon – Monsters is as heavy thematically as it is sonically. “'Monsters' is about the demons that haunt you, and pull you down in dark moments,” vocalist Azaria Nasiristates. “It’s a song that for me is about what it means to be haunted by depression, but I think everyone will be able to relate to the monsters hiding in their own story.”
For guitarist Oli Arnold, the song strikes a particularly personal chord. “When I was about thirteen years old, my best friend died very suddenly,” he reveals. “The tragedy of that moment has shaped my life more than any other. I began suffering from panic attacks, and my parents weren’t capable of handling that situation. For a long time I didn’t feel connected to people. My childhood ended that day. It’s only now that I’m really able to begin to process that experience and to write about its impact on me.”
You can check out the official video for Monsters below:
Late last year, the band announced that they'd be touring across the UK and Europe supporting Ankor and Conquer Divide for the first half of their tour, starting on 7th February. Full list of tour dates below, with tickets for all shows available on the band's website HERE.
SEVEN BLOOD EU/UK Tour Dates
07/02 - Club Volta, Cologne (DE)
08/02 - Frannz Club, Berlin (DE)
09/02 - De Helling, Utrecht (NL)
11/02 - Asylum, Birmingham (UK)
12/02 - Classic Grand, Glasgow (UK)
13/02 - Think Tank, Newcastle (UK)
14/02 - Underworld, London (UK)
15/02 - Rebellion, Manchester (UK)
16/02 - The Fleece, Bristol (UK)
18/02 - Petit Bain, Paris (FR)
19/02 - Rex de Toulouse, Toulouse (FR)
20/02 - Sala Copernico, Madrid (ES)
21/02 - Sala Apolo, Barcelona (ES)
24/02 - Legend Club, Milan (IT)
25/02 - Kiff, Aarau (CH)
Seven Blood are a band born from a collective moment of personal crisis, who now want to provide the soundtrack to recovery for fans going through their own traumatic times. The quartet’s deeply personal songs lay bare the stories of the contrasting life journeys of its members. Born just a couple of years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and growing up in the former German Democratic Republic powerhouse of Suhl, guitarist Oli Arnold and drummer Anfy Hartmann knew only their home city’s slow and brutal urban decline. “Growing up in such an environment, in a ghost town, played a bigger role than I ever anticipated,” Oli says. “It’s only really now, being able to look back, that I realise how big an impact it had on me.”
Germany’s capital was home to Azaria Nasiri, though Seven Blood’s future vocalist struggled to see it that way. The daughter of a Moroccan mother and Iranian father, who had fled Iran during the revolution in the 1970s, Azaria spent her youth fighting to understand her place. “Growing up there was a lot of frustration and insecurity as I always felt like I could not fully identify with my world around me,” Azaria says. “I came from two very different cultural backgrounds, and lived in another one entirely, which left me feeling like I was always looking for somewhere to belong and never truly finding it.”
It would take many years for the trio to come together in Seven Blood in the sprint of 2023 – bassist Josi Hille joining later still – with the musicians finding one other while each stood at a personal, emotional and creative crossroads. “Seven Blood was born of each of us suffering personal crises and holding a desire to use music to help us process and overcome those events,” Oli says. With the band’s vision for a heavy hitting yet highly melodic sound still many months from being refined, the only focus in their early rehearsal sessions was to be as open and honest with each other as possible, and to channel their personal and collective pain into songs.
That, ultimately, is Seven Blood’s mission: to provide that same safety and support for fans to find their own empowerment through vulnerability.
