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  South London metalcore heavyweights AFTER SMOKE CLEARS have shared the third taste of what's to come on their hotly anticipated sophomore LP, Intentions, with "Serenity", featuring Asleep At The Helm's Jimmy Dahmer. The single comes alongside an official music video, directed by bassist Aaron Dohnt. Notably standing as their most melodic song to date, "Serenity" explores topics of fatherhood and the ever-growing stresses that come with fast-paced city life. Whilst the band are certainly no strangers to potent emotion and wearing their hearts of their sleeves, "Serenity" sees AFTER SMOKE CLEARS at their most emotionally vulnerable yet, casting aside their traditional charged fury in favour of sensitivity. "Serenity" serves as the third single from Intentions, the band's brand new full length LP, which was recorded and mixed by Meyrick De La Fuente (VEXED, Eschalon, Shush) of Floodgate Audio, and is due out November 19th via self-rele...

  South London metalcore heavyweights After Smoke Clears have shared a cutting and emotive brand new single titled "Animal", featuring Stephen MacConville (Confessions of a Traitor). The single comes alongside a music video directed by bassist Aaron Dohnt, and the release date announcement of their long-awaited sophomore LP, Intentions, out November 19th via self-release. The eight-track LP, featuring the newly-released "Animal", as well as recent heavy-hitter "Unintelligent", containing further vocal features from the likes of Damien Bigara and Jimmy Dahmer, is a rallying cry; a defiant and emotionally potent metalcore romp that yearns to be heard, and firmly cements AFTER SMOKE CLEARS' place as the kings of the UK underground. Whilst valiantly standing as the group's strongest and most complete work to date, Intentions boldly follows the release of 2023's The Fear, which received an 8/10 from Metal Hammer, with the publication declaring that ...

  South London-based metalcore unit AFTER SMOKE CLEARS have shared the first taste of their upcoming sophomore studio album, Intentions, (coming later this year via self-release) in "Unintelligent", a no-holds-barred display of unabashed metalcore fury. Recorded and produced by Meyrick De La Fuente (Exist Immortal, VEXED, Eschalon), "Unintelligent" is a blistering, brutal and honest metalcore anthem that feels in equal measure emotionally potent and acutely aggressive. The band states: "Unintelligent is a song about being treated like shit. Berated, and made to feel insignificant, the lyrics tell the story from a beginning, where you've heard these things said to you for so long you become accustomed to them, that you've become a permanent resident inside your own personal hell. The sample ‘Hell is real’ pays homage to the millions of people around the world, living in their own personal hell, sometimes being gaslit into thinking it's not actually a...