Die Hardcore / Metal-Band VØLSDÏR hat mit „The Bullet“ eine neue Single veröffentlicht. Davor haben die Spanier unter anderem die EP „In The Way Of Eden“ (2022) veröffentlicht.

„“The Bullet“ entstand aus der absurden Wut über die digitale Anonymität. Es ist unsere direkte Antwort darauf, wie leichtfertig Menschen hinter der Deckung eines Bildschirms urteilen, zerstören und angreifen. Metaphorisch als unerbittliche Jagd inszeniert, schildert der Song die Gewalt leerer Urteile und grundlosen Hasses, aber auch die Entschlossenheit, sich nicht in ihr Spiel hineinziehen zu lassen“, erklärt die Band.

VØLSDÏR Line-Up:
Mario Císcar – Guitarra
Jose L. Hervàs – Voz
Jose J. Herreros – Guitarra
Víctor Peinado – Bajo
Alberto Pardo – Batería

VØLSDÏR „The Bullet“ (Video bei YouTube)

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When someone tries to smite you

Turn the other cheek and walk away

And if they’re spreading lies to spite you

Don’t listen to a word they have to say…

Holding a grudge can become a full-time occupation, with terrible hours and no discernible benefits. There is some satisfaction, then, in denying an antagonist the fight they came looking for, leaving them to argue with the furniture while you get on with your life. The Mission gives that small act of self-preservation a suitably expansive accompaniment on Kindness Is A Weapon, a song built to turn a private resolve into something a whole room can sing.

The British gothic rock veterans have shared the single and its accompanying lyric video alongside news of Songs For Kith And Kin, their first new studio album since 2016’s Another Fall From Grace. The 15-track collection arrives April 2, 2027, via Cooking Vinyl, with a double-vinyl edition among the available formats.

The guitars ring with that trademark Mission chime, bright, interlocking figures recalling the style Wayne Hussey honed on an Aria 12-string electric during his days in The Sisters of Mercy. His interplay with Simon Hinkler gives Kindness Is A Weapon the sweep and scale of classic Mission, while the chorus hits like a howitzer barrage, driving the song’s titular message home in a refrain made for thousands of Mission fans to sing along.

Lyrically, the opening verse casts insults, lies, and broken promises as tests of character. Hussey counsels turning away from provocation and measuring friends by what they do, while the biblical call to turn the other cheek offers a way to break the cycle of harm.

The second verse skewers generosity performed for applause: good deeds staged for admiration, compassion worn like a badge of honor. “Holy Joe” and Cain set self-righteousness against guilt, revealing the distance between seeming virtuous and acting with decency. What matters is motive: kindness should serve someone, whether anyone sees it or not.

The chorus’s repeated invitation to sing becomes a shared pledge. In the bridge, Hussey lays out his answer to aggression: meet it with kindness, denying hostility the reaction it craves. The title redirects the language of combat toward an ethic of restraint, and the immense chorus gives that argument its full force.

As Hussey explains: “You can use kindness as a weapon for good, and you have to let things go at some point.”

Kindness Is A Weapon had already appeared in the band’s live sets before the hiatus around Hussey’s open-heart surgery, though he kept revising its lyrics until the final recording in June 2026. His operation and recovery also affected the wider album, which was originally slated for release in 2025. With that experience behind the record, its concern with how people treat one another carries particular weight.

Watch the lyric video for Kindness Is A Weapon below:

The announcement of Kindness Is A Weapon andSongs For Kith And Kin arrives forty years after God’s Own Medicine, the debut that followed Hussey and bassist Craig Adams’ departure from The Sisters of Mercy. Joined by guitarist Simon Hinkler and original drummer Mick Brown, they established a band whose appetite for big melodies and bigger gatherings gave gothic rock some of its most enduring communal moments. That history lends a song about solidarity a rather natural home.

Hussey, Hinkler, and Adams are joined on the new album by drummer Alex Baum, who came aboard in 2022 and co-wrote Roll With The Punches. Hussey produced the record, with César Lamschtein recording at Faro House Studios in José Ignacio, Uruguay, and additional orchestral sessions taking place in Montevideo. Keyboards, sitar, and tamboura broaden the arrangements around the partnership between Hussey and Hinkler’s guitars.

Hussey describes the album’s progression as a movement from concerns about his health and the wider world toward family, friendship, and the places people call home. Its title makes that destination explicit: these are songs addressed to the people who help make a life bearable, arriving after a period when such connections were especially valuable.

Kindness Is A Weapon is available to stream now. Songs For Kith And Kin is available to preorder through The Mission’s official store on CD, cassette, and double vinyl.

Songs For Kith And Kin tracklist:

Kith & Kin
Operation Chaos
Arrhythmia
Never Say Never Say Die
Kindness Is A Weapon
Circle The Wagons
Heavy (Is The Crown)
Roll With The Punches
Unbroken (asongoflove)
Diving For Pearls
Cleansing The Wound
A Soft Place To Fall
My Very Favourite Life
Sanctuary
The Last Leaf On The Tree

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Cross my heart and pray to God
Are you the one I’m dreamin of?

A racing heart is a notoriously unreliable compass for happiness. It may signal desire, panic—or the arrival of someone who can summon both in a single conversation. New love makes a persuasive case for throwing caution aside, though the central nervous system is quick to lodge its objections.

Doncaster, UK duo Peak Flow give that disagreement a considerable charge on Never Coming Down, their new single arriving October 30, 2026. Written by the pair, the track follows the exhilarating early stages of a relationship, when surrender feels irresistible, and self-preservation starts making increasingly urgent suggestions.

Heavy guitars open the song over a throbbing bass groove, while melodic new wave synths introduce a bright, insistent counterpoint to the distortion. The arrangement moves with an easy physical confidence, giving the fuzz enough room to spread without obscuring the hooks. Goth rock, post-punk, and darkwave meet in a chorus built for immediate recall, with the broader guitar wash drawing on shoegaze and alternative rock. Peak Flow call their combination “Anthemwave,” and the name makes sense: even at its most uneasy, the song keeps reaching for a bigger melodic release.

The vocals give that ambition a distinctive character. Somewhere between Placebo’s anxious romanticism and Children on Stun’s gothic theatricality, the delivery makes infatuation sound both intoxicating and precarious. There is enough tension in the voice to complicate the chorus’s upward sweep; every declaration of happiness seems to arrive with its fingers crossed.

The lyrics move from private retreat into the consuming excitement of a new attachment, where a smile seems capable of erasing everything that came before. Yet devotion keeps catching on doubt: the desire to follow someone anywhere sits beside prayers for reassurance and fears of losing control. The repeated promise of staying aloft becomes a plea against another painful collapse.

The black-and-white video places those feelings among gravestones, bare branches, old brickwork, and dim interiors. Outdoor guitar performances alternate with blurred views of trees and figures reduced to silhouettes against the available light. Sunglasses and leather supply the familiar goth vocabulary, while the unstable, smeared images give the setting a more unsettled quality. A cemetery is an appropriately loaded place to declare that you will never come back down, and the contrast between the song’s lift and its surroundings suits a romance already worrying about how it might end.

Watch the video for Never Coming Down below:

Never Coming Down is released across all major streaming platforms on Friday, October 30, 2026. Listen or pre-save here, and order the single via Bandcamp.

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