The wait is finally over! Metalcore heroes Lost Souls have announced their debut album, Lore, landing on April 18. The album news arrives with their mammoth new single xMOSHLORDx featuring Jonathan Vigil of The Ghost Inside.
Lost Souls’ additive newie channels that euphoric sensation of seeing your favourite band live. You know that feeling when the chorus hits then belting it out at the top of your lungs until they explode? That. It’s only fitting that xMOSHLORDx features one of their all-time favourite artists.
Though it almost didn’t happen, thanks to Kevin being, well, himself. When Jonathan Vigil paid the band a visit to see how the breakdown magic is made, the very starstruck Lost Souls vocalist panicked and tried to flee the scene. When his car wouldn’t start, the idea for xMOSHLORDx was born.
“I was on tour in Australia and had a little bit of downtime when Jovi hit me up to come to their practice,” explains Jonathan Vigil. “I was planning on just hanging and bullsh*tting with the band, but when the car wouldn’t start, they just started jamming a song. I instinctively grabbed the mic and just got into it with them. Kev asked me to get onto the track with them and the rest is history!”
“We’re basically best friends now,” adds Kev (vocals). “Also, I need to ask that if you see Vigil and I out on double dates or just hanging please respect our privacy.”
Renowned for their unorthodox songwriting methods and the ability to turn mundane sounds into epic anthems fuelled by huge riffs, hypnotic hooks and unforgiving lyrics, Lost Souls is the heavy band everyone is talking about right now.
Lost Souls’ forthcoming album Lore is the culmination of a year-long story that starts with the debut single “Childhood Died” – the Star Wars-themed epic that immediately went viral and had everyone asking ‘who are Lost Souls?’. The single immediately racked up millions of streams, garnered the attention of reaction channels around the globe and was nominated for “Best Blergh” at the Nik Nocturnal Awards. They backed it up with the sequel “The Return”, followed by the Attack on Titan tribute “My Soldiers Rage” which took social media by storm courtesy of a ping-pong ball breakdown viewed around the world 20 million times before the single was even released. Next came the ADHD masterpiece “Dopamine” with a killer riff inspired by microwave popcorn.
While it may seem on the surface that their debut is a collection of humorous songs about nerdy pop culture themes, Lore goes much deeper, showcasing the significance of these stories for the multiple generations of fans whose values and ethics have been shaped by their favourite heroes and villains. To many, these narratives are a religion providing a moral code to live life by, except no one is going to war over them…
Jovi (bass) elaborates: “Religion is based on stories, and each religion proclaims that all other religions are false, or, all other stories aren’t true. The stories we sing about are just as important to generations of people out there. The characters in these stories taught thousands if not millions of youngsters what it is to be a good person, how to stand up for what you believe in, defy adversity, not give into the temptation of evil… They’re cherished for life.”
Lore is also a powerful social commentary, exploring themes of neurodiversity, the complexities of mental health, mindless influencer culture feeding the desperate pursuit of fame and the monotony of corporate life.
Quite simply, Lore is the album Lost Souls were put on this earth to write.
LOST SOULS – LORE
Out April 18 (Independent)
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