Skam return with new single ‘Selfish Friend’, from new album From The Depths that’s out now.
“‘Selfish Friend’ is about that one friend everyone has. You keep this person around even though they repeatedly let you down and only think about themselves. Yet you still keep them around!”
‘From The Depths’ is available to order from here. It follows previous single ‘Rising Fever’, about which drummer and backing vocals Neal Hill said: “This song is about our journey in the music industry, and tells the story behind the new album. We decided not to compromise on our sound and what we are about as a band, and write songs that we truly believe in and love.
“The lyrics are about all of the so called industry experts we have come across over the years who have told us to write songs a certain way, or look a certain way. We aren’t built that way, and never will be, so this is for them!”
You can order ‘Rising Fever’ here and check out the video for it here at RAMzine alongside a lyric video for ‘Selfish Friend’.
Formed in 2011, the middle England based band has a reputation for delivering no nonsense, gutsy, classic sounding contemporary British rock music. To date, the band have independently released three albums. With It’s Come to This (2011) and Peacemaker (2014) the band established themselves as a live force to be reckoned with. A drive to innovate inspired Skam to then release The Amazing Memoirs Of Geoffrey Goddard.
Released in 2017, The Amazing Memoirs Of Geoffrey Goddard was a concept record based on the diary entries of a time travelling RAF pilot. The songs were described as “gritty anthemic rockers” by Classic Rock Magazine and the album received a number of five star reviews from the UK Music press.
Lead single ‘Take it Or Leave it’ was voted as Track of the Week by Classic Rock Magazine and has since been included on Earache Records’ New Wave Of Rock N Roll compilation vinyl. In 2021, they broke into the Official UK Rock Charts with their Intra EP hitting number six. Part 2, Venous went one better making it to number five.
Earlier this year, the band – featuring Steve Hill (guitar/vocals), Matt Gilmore (bass/backing vocals) and Neal Hill (drums/backing vocals) – returned with new single ‘Fate Of The Souls’, taken from From The Depths, due November and described as “their most eclectic and ambitious album yet”. On this album they have pushed themselves into unknown waters, experimenting with everything from metal to prog, to acoustic balladry.
The singles can be ordered here with the video to ‘Fate Of The Souls‘ available to view here at RAMzine, you can order From The Depths here, the band are on tour now through to December to support its release.
