Finland’s Grave Pleasures have released a new single, “Be My Hiroshima”, featured on their second album, Motherblood, due for release on September 29th via Century Media Records. A video for the track can be seen below.

Vocalist Mat McNerney explains: “’Be My Hiroshima’ is our love song for the apocalypse. The video is taken from our cover art by Tekla Vály. Images of Kali, the mother who sits on top of the cycle of life and death, birth and rebirth (and her consort Shiva who is the destroyer and transformer). As the dawn of man begins to draw to an end, it is her blood that we have shed, and like the sands of time it spills out. We are sacrificing our mother, and eating her flesh and drinking her blood. This is the eucharist which represents our extinction. Within her womb we are born and we are born to die there. It's an endless love affair with death. A love like motherblood.

I rest my mouth upon your mouth
and the world is the colour of murder
I lie beside your oblivion
in the shadow of mass destruction.”

Motherblood was produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Ghost, Ulver, Cathedral) and is the follow up to the bands’ debut album Dreamcrash which was released in 2015, the first recording since the band morphed from their initial underground band Beastmilk. Since then they have played throughout Europe and the UK (including Sonisphere) gaining converts continually, building a fan base for their dark apocalyptic haunting music. With lots of influences including Magazine, The Wire. The Cure and Echo And The Bunnymen - mixed with Bowie, Duran Duran and Killing Joke (which whom they have toured) - the band have taken this thrilling mix and brought it uniquely up to date with a passionate contemporary sound.

The pre-order of the album has started. Motherblood is offered in the following configurations:

- Standard CD Jewelcase
- Ltd. Mediabook (plus bonus track)
- Deluxe LP version (gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl, 12-page LP-booklet, CD plus bonus track)
- Digital download/stream

The LP version is available in the following vinyl colours:

- Kali Transparent Blue: 100 copies, exclusively available at CM Distro Europe
- Kali Opaque Blue: 200 copies, exclusively available at UK retailers
- Motherblood Transparent Red: 300 copies, available in the USA through RED
- Motherblood Opaque Red: 200 copies, available at various mailorder stores
- Clear: 200 copies, exclusively sold by the band
- Kali’s Weaponry Gold: 200 copies, exclusively available at Nuclear Blast and Levykauppa Äx

Pre-order the album here.

Tracklisting:

“Infatuation Overkill”
“Doomsday Rainbows”
“Be My Hiroshima”
“Joy Through Death”
“Mind Intruder”
“Laughing Abyss”
“Falling For An Atom Bomb”
“Atomic Christ”
“Deadenders”
“Haunted Afterlife”

“Infatuation Overkill” video:

Grave Pleasures lineup:

Mat McNerney - Vocals
Juho Vanhanen - Guitars
Aleksi Kiiskilä - Guitars
Valtteri Arino - Bass
Rainer Tuomikanto - Drums