HIDDEN INTENT unleash their most aggressive track to date with ‘The Ruins’, the first single and video from their upcoming fourth album ‘Terrorform’. This thrash masterpiece drags you through the dark passages of life, delivering relentless riffs, windmill-worthy breakdowns, and enough circle-pit energy to leave you thirstier than Friday knock-offs.
The blistering music video features fierce live footage from the band’s hectic performance at Adelaide’s now iconic Froth and Fury Festival. It’s raw, it’s heavy, and it’s HIDDEN INTENT at their absolute best. The track was mixed and mastered by none other than Dennis Koehe (Exumer, Sodom, Lacuna Coil), ensuring every crushing riff and signature Aussie bark, hits harder than a rabid drop bear nosediving from a eucalpyt. So crank up the volume, bang your heads, and lose yourself in ‘The Ruins’. This is just the beginning – ‘Terrorform’ is coming, and it’s going to destroy.”
A follow-up to the iconic Aussie thrash release ‘Dead End Destiny’, the band’s latest album takes their sound to uncharted depths of heaviness and meaning. A clever twist on “terraform” (the transformation of a planet to support life), ‘Terrorform’ delves into the human psyche, exposing how warped thinking has led us astray as a species. It’s a call to action to “terraform our minds” – to shed inherited prejudices, dismantle self-imposed limitations, and break free of the toxic cycles that hold us back. The goal? To strip it all down and rebuild from within, thinking freely for a brighter future.
Lead Shredder Phil had this to say about the band’s mission on the record: “We’re building on everything we’ve done with Hidden Intent up to this point, but making it wider. On one hand, you’ll get more melodic/lighter elements, while on the other, we’re pushing into a much more extreme direction—more brutal, heavier, and unapologetically offensive.”
Prepare yourselves, metalheads—2025 will be the year ‘Terrorform’ shakes the foundations of heavy music.
𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 show this March!
Mar 21 – Adelaide – The Gov
Hidden Intent releasing ‘Terrorform’
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