Alkaline Trio Announce New Album

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Alkaline Trio will release Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs on January 26th via Rise Records. Today they’ve shared the title track.

Alkaline Trio walks among us once again. On January 26, 2024, everyone’s favorite tortured triumvirate will return in Grand Guignol style with Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, its tenth album and first full length offering of new material to be released in (66)6 years.

Recorded with GRAMMY-winning producer Cameron Webb at Studio 606 in Northridge CA, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs finds Alkaline Trio stripping its sound down to the skin and bones of its unmistakable sonic spirit, while taking that dark essence to parts previously unknown. Accompanied by the premiere of a fittingly kinetic video directed by Ravi Dhar and featuring pro skaters including Steve Caballero, Chris Cole and more, the album’s first single and title track exemplifies its balance of the eerily familiar and the shock of the new. Oh, and there’s that song/album title...

“My mom worked for years as an emergency room nurse,” says vocalist/guitarist/founder Matt Skiba. "She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs’. Well, we’ve been busy making an exceptional record we refer to as Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, too. We approached this new record in completely new ways. We built the songs together, from the ground up, in the same room which hasn’t happened since the band started. Usually we start with an idea somebody’s already written. This time, we had the unique opportunity to build the songs onto drums recorded at Studio 606 on to two-inch tape using one of the most beautiful-sounding and legendary consoles in rock. It has almost everything to do with how our new record sounds.”

Of the “Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs” video, bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano adds, “Sometimes the full circle nature of life is enough to just completely blow my mind… this is one of those times. Skateboarding was my first love, is my favorite sport, and a community through which I was first introduced to punk rock. So when Matt and I read Ravi’s idea to combine our music with an homage to the Bones Brigade’s ‘The Search For Animal Chin’ and throw some spooky zombies in there… we both dug it right away. The work Ravi and the entire production crew put in was insane and it shows… So to kick off the release of our 10th album with this super fun video featuring Steve Caballero, Chris Cole, Ace, Corey and Shea is so much more than a dream come true, it’s true love. This is not a phase.”

In addition to being a darkly shining exemplar of the Trio’s signature blend of wry lyrical wit and bittersweet melodic sensibility, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs arrives in a confluence of endings and beginnings—specifically, it’s both the first album to be released via the band’s new label home, Rise Records, and the last to feature longtime member Derek Grant, drummer on every Alkaline Trio record since 2003’s classic Good Mourning.

See below for Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs’ tracklist, as well as a full list of upcoming live dates (with support from Drug Church), on which Skiba and Andriano will be joined by veteran drummer Atom Willard (Against Me!, Rocket from the Crypt). “Playing with Atom is so inspiring,” says Andriano. “His motor is unparalleled.”

Track Listing

1. Hot For Preacher
2. Meet Me
3. Versions Of You
4. Bad Time
5. Scars
6. Break
7. Shake With Me
8. Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
9. Hinterlude
10. Broken Down In A Time Machine
11. Teenage Heart

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That was fun

 

Nice! The very end of the video scared the crap out of me

 

Hitting us with those Crimson harmonies!

 

Thanks for the heads up on the jump scares lol. Awesome video and song, can't wait to hear the album!

 

Gross title. But I’m looking forward to the album!

 

Dan Andriano looks super different to me.

 

I thought the same thing! Fun song. Classic sound for them. Atom on drums seems to bring a nice amount of energy.

 

The soaring vocals hit so well in the chorus. Musically sounds like the One Man Army split. The cheekiness of the song titles and album name is on point for me at least.

 

Cole and Caballero cameos!

 

Seems like Derek was on the album according to the press release?

 

Not sure but think they started working on the album before he left so he could be on the album

 

Derek is listed in the song credits as composer and the performer. Atom was just in the video.. I have a pretty good feeling that Derek tracked the album and realized Trio was gonna go full touring band mode again, which is kinda why he stepped back before, and his mental health (He stated he fought bipolar disorder a ton and had moved back home to Chicago to deal with things.) I dont think it was ever confirmed that he did the drums on the EP after "Is This Thing Cursed?" There were rumors it was some other dude who did sessions with Skiba and Andriano, but then Derek came back to tour with them once touring opened up again and Matt was still in blink. All the well wishes and thank you's to Derek for his impact on this band. He will be missed.

 

That video and song was incredible. This band is the best and I hope they never stop making music.

 

His name escapes me at the moment but yeah it was somebody else that did the drums on the EP

 

Thoughts as they happened…

Dans mustache….
Matts hair….
No Derek :(

Super catchy and a great hook. Fun video. Love me some Trio

 

goin on a tour next year for the new album

 

got my ticket!

 

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