One of the world’s fastest rising progressive metal acts, Finland’s Wheel have announced the release of their second full length album Resident Human, to be released on March 26, 2021 via Odyssey Music.
Physical versions of the album / merch will be available in Australia & New Zealand via an exclusive arrangement with Wild Thing Records!
To celebrate the announcement, they’ve released a stunning video for their brand new single ‘Movement’. Watch the video below.
Discussing the deep and poignant meaning behind the track, guitarist and vocalist James Lascelles divulges, “The song is directly about the rhetoric surrounding the events that followed the murder of George Floyd, not the murder itself. It’s about the lack of empathy and logic, the conflation and the false equivalence that has repeatedly been used to minimise the murder (and others like it) and any attempt at changing social policies in a way that might prevent such things happening again. In laymen’s terms, it’s a ‘shut the fuck up and sit down if you have nothing helpful to say’ to all people who think property has more value than human life or to those who think police reform to prevent American state funded brutality, shouldn’t happen as it won’t solve every other issue that we face in the modern world. To be as clear as possible, this is not ‘society would be better without a police force’ as frankly, it wouldn’t, but it is aimed at inspiring continued discussion about the role of police in our societies and to challenge a status quo where in the most extreme cases, police behave like a militia and are not accountable for their actions.
Modern discourse seems to define only two possible solutions to most given issues and this is no exception; there is a lot of middle ground between abolishing the police force and doing nothing at all – the song aims to encourage others to continue the debate and hopefully to find some middle ground with those who oppose their views. Regardless of what happens next, we all know the price of silence and ethically, it is essential that the discussion about police brutality and societal racism continues.”
Talking about 2020 as an unprecedented year is beyond cliché now. But while this fact rings true, what remains beyond that in the cold light of day is the exposed skeletal bones of humanity and its true nature. From the good, the bad and the ugly, no facet of our species has been left unturned.
Pre Order Resident Human now! Physical Formats including CD, 2LP and Merch Bundles available in Australia via Wild Thing Records and Digitally here.
