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Enter Shikari Release New Single Featuring Duo Wargasm

August 12th, 2022 - 6:27 PM

Enter Shikari Release New Single Featuring Duo Wargasm

British alternative rock band Enter Shikari took to Twitter today to announce the release of their brand-new single, “The Void Stares Back” featuring Wargasm. This is the St Alban’s musician’s first release since the single “The Great Unknown” from their UK number two album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible; an album that NME gave four out of five stars and said that it: “brings together every shape that Enter Shikari have ever pulled and slots them together to create their most definitive album yet. It’s a crash course in their unruly genius and all their best tricks – a Greatest Hits waiting for you to learn the words”.

“The Void Stares Back” sees the band teaming up with London electronic rock duo Wargasm producing some of their most electrifying and compelling work yet. In a statement released for the song, the band say the single “spins a startling pop sensibility into a haymaker chorus, that erupts to champion acceptance, community, belonging and the power of progress. It’s about staking your claim, being who you are, searching for like-minds and ushering out the antiquated views of old”. Have a listen below.

Lead singer and keyboardist for the band, Rou Reynolds, added in the statement for the release, “It is with elation, and more than a little nervousness, that we release this; our first track after over two years of dormancy. It is a roisterous journey made all the more so with the addition of our friends Wargasm”.  Reynolds continued, “Thematically, the piece is about the forward march of social progress, and how, often, those with a more conventional archaic outlook on sexuality, gender, social design, economics etc, see those with differing ideas like bewildering, depraved creatures from another dimension”.

Wargasm are one of the hottest up-and-coming young bands (Jonathon Davis of Korn has said they are his favourite new band), and they are set to release their first full-length album EXPLICIT: THE MIXXXTAPE on September 9th, to pre-order click here. Talking to NME back in June about the upcoming release Sam Matlock said, “The mixtape is less about being catchy and having good, refined songwriting, It’s more about fucking about and seeing how it feels”.

On teaming up with Enter Shikari, the duo said in a statement, “Shikari were a big part of our growing up, so it was an absolute honour to be asked to collaborate with such an incredible and well-spoken band. They stand for the right things – we’re a little more pessimistic. It was fun playing the darker devil’s advocate to Rou’s light…where we’re going, you won’t need eyes to see…”.

Enter Shikari will be performing on the Main Stage West at Reading & Leeds 2022 later this month to see if any tickets are left, click here for Reading and here for Leeds. Wargasm are set to play Burn it Down Festival (get tickets here) and The Forum in Tunbridge Wells ( get tickets here) in September, continuing with a run of headline UK shows this coming October. Click here for tickets and see dates below.

Enter Shikari dates:
27/08/2022 – Reading Festival – Reading
28/08 – Leeds Festival – Leeds

Wargasm upcoming shows:
02/09/2022 – Burn It Down Festival – Torquay
05/09 – The Forum – Tunbridge Wells
14/10 – Oh Yeah Music Centre – Belfast
17/10 – Southampton 1865 – Southampton
18/10 – Motion & the Marble Factory – Bristol
19/10 – O2 Academy2 Birmingham – Birmingham
21/10 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
22/10 – Stylus – Leeds
23/10 – Wylam Brewery – Newcastle Upon Tyne
24/10 – The Garage – Glasgow
26/10 – Manchester Academy2 – Manchester
27/10 – O2 Forum Kentish Town – London

Photo Credit: Frederick Wilkinson

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