By Hannah Reid
There is something very special when bands get back together after breaking up, presumably for good. It’s even more special when that band is one of your all-time favourites.
Last Friday night (11 March), Fearless Vampire Killers played their first show in five years in Camden’s Black Heart, under the name “After The Flames”. It was meant to be a big secret that slowly got out; rumours spread around their fanbase, and it was all people could talk about on the run up. The band said later on Twitter that “the reaction was beyond our expectations”.
The new double A-side single, due 1 April, ‘Something Terminal’ is the first new music since 2016 and the band said the track represents the ups and the downs the band have gone through with an “ultimate focus on new beginnings”.
“[It] is a love letter to the band we were, a final acknowledgement of all our quirks and contradictions,” explained co-vocalist Laurence Beveridge in an official statement.
The second song. ‘Delicate’, has been described as a contrasting crowd pleaser, with its searing riffs, anthemic stomp and grabbing chorus.
“We’ve realised that creating together is the makeup of who we are as friends,” said co-vocalist Kier Kemp. “We used to make films as kids and things just weren’t the same without something to work on together. So, I guess that in a way Fearless Vampire Killers doing more was inevitable. I don’t think that will ever change.”
There is said to be more news on the band’s next chapter coming very soon, and following the band’s show in Camden, the fans were told: “To those who missed out, hang tight…”
We can only wait in anticipation with everything crossed!
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