BLACK COAST: Nu-Grunge Crossover Lords Drop New Single ‘Strangers Skin’ Ahead Of Debut LP

Nu Metal’s seemingly endless revival continues this week, with UK group Black Coast dropping their new single Strangers Skin, blurring the lines between late 90’s Deftones drenched MTV riffage with Alice In Chains melody.

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Combining the bands penchant for metallic hardcore with sharp songwriting, it’s a continuation of their impressive alternative metal sound that they’ve been building throughout the year, with the single offering fans a teaser for their hotly anticipated debut LP Outworld, due to drop November 19th. 

“Strangers Skin is about your perceived image,” explains singer Charlie Hewitt.

“Whether that be aesthetically or how you think you come across to other people … it’s about feeling like you’re pretending to be someone else.

“Sometimes you can’t help it, sometimes you have to do it – you end up always feeling like you’re stuck in a stranger’s skin.”

It’s an impressive piece of work by the band, who used their downtime afforded by cancelled tours to pen their debut record, which will be released via Nuclear Blast’s Blood Blast imprint.

Thematically exploring Hewitt’s path to sobriety, their forthcoming debut record is sure to be a cathartic introduction for the band to a huge range of audiences around the world.

Since the start of the years they’ve released a string of impressive singles drawing comparisons to the likes of Bring Me The Horizon, contemporaries Loathe and even Linkin Park – thanks in no small part to their impressive cover of A Place For My Head that they dropped last year.

Alongside the likes of fellow compatriots Sleep Token, Svalbard and Palm Reader, Black Coast are flying the flag for a new brand of excellent metal coming out of the British isles and taking the world’s breath away.

Pre-order Black Coast’s Outworld here.