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Wanna start the spooky season early this year? Whether you’re a fan of the delightful macabre or just some straight up delectable rock, Aussie goth punks The Wrath are officially back in the land of the living this week via a new track and accompanying music video for Wrong Side.

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Embracing snippets of punk, rock and psychobilly, Wrong Side finds The Wrath firmly doing everything right, with their trademark energy and snarling charm bouncing at every step, while also lyrically commenting on the wild ol’ world we all continue to live in.

With the track written well before the pandemic, when it came time for the group to conjure an accompanying music video, the best laid plans saw the group, consisting of vocalist Tommy Creeper, guitarist Spectre Deano, guitarist Carina Acquarola, double bassist The Count and drummer Dan Briffa, turn their hand to COVID-friendly animation; a decision that resulted in pure Wrath ghostly goodness, but one that also saw the band testing every inch of their creative facets.

“Obviously the last couple of years for everybody in bands and everyone in general has really just been wild,” shares vocalist Tommy Creeper. We’ve sort of been sitting on this for a little bit just not really knowing what to do as a band or what to do when everything was taken away. So, it was a weird time for us to actually sort of just sit on our hands a little bit and just go: why are we doing this? And we just reassessed everything, that was kind of all part of it as well.”

“Our usual thing is that we just record stuff, put some stuff out, get on planes and just keep doing our thing – and then that was all taken away. So then you sort of go: hang on, what are we even doing? Why are we jamming every week? What are we doing? And so that’s where this video came from, this was what our time went into over that time during COVID. And I wrote this song before COVID, it was entirely written and recorded it before COVID was even a thing.”

A song eerily relevant to a world gripped with turmoil and uncertainty on a daily basis, Wrong Side’s music video was initially envisioned somewhat differently before Creeper and Co. turned to the pre-existing artistic talents already available in The Wrath HQ.

“I was already thinking what we could do during COVID, and then the ball dropped and it was like: oh, I think I know what we can do for a video. I’ve got a good idea now.”

We try and do things differently to keep ourselves interested as well. And this is another one of those things where we’re like: yep. What could go wrong? I mean, Halloween’s all year round for us anyway!
[ Tommy Creeper ]

“I did have another idea before this animated idea came to life,” shares Creeper. “I had a bit of an idea of what we could do for a film clip, but then lockdowns happened and we couldn’t get together. So, I was like: whoa, we have to do something. It was, like I was saying before, just a reassessment of everything, but then just changing your goals and going: okay, well, let’s be creative with what we’ve got, we can’t get together, but this person can do this, and that person can do that – let’s get this a crack, what do you reckon, can we do it?

“Carina did all the drawings of all the characters, she’s very artistic, she does stuff on the side outside of the band. Deano is a whiz on the computer, he’s done a little bit of animation before in the past. So, he went: yeah, can’t be too bad? And I was like: alright, and I’ll just get a camera out and I’ll take whatever photos we need taking for all the layers and all the stuff. And that’s pretty much as easy as it was. But it wasn’t until we started really getting into it and going: ohhh, this is gonna take ages. We didn’t really know what we were getting into until we really started. I’m a little scarred from the experience to be honest.”

While creating the animated video entirely themselves proved to be much harder than they could’ve initially imagined, the band embraced the challenges and learning curves, throwing everything they had into the final end result. And, fittingly, the final product is wholeheartedly a reflection that holds true to the DIY beliefs that The Wrath has stuck to for close to two decades.

And if you fancy catching The Wrath busting out their new tune in an extremely appropriate setting, Gold Coast fans are in for a treat later this year when the group sees another long-time plan realised – and it couldn’t be more on brand.

“We’ve got some shows coming up, but we’ve specifically got something coming up for Halloween that we’ve had in the works for the last few years that has also been postponed multiple times,” reveals Creeper. “We got asked to play at Movie World for their Fright Nights for Halloween, we’re gonna be playing like every event!”

“It’s insanity, I don’t even know what we signed up for, but they approached us a few years ago about doing it, just because of our aesthetic. I thought it was a joke to be honest when we first got asked, but they were like: yeah, look, usually we hire musicians and kind of spook them up, but we’ve come across your band and we don’t need to do anything to you guys, would you be interested? It turned out to be for real!

“It’s gonna be really different to what we’re used to, but we’re obviously looking forward to it. It’s gonna be with all the bells and whistles and whatever Movie World throws at us with pyrotechnics and all this sort of stuff. And we’ll be playing like four sets a night.”

“We try and do things differently to keep ourselves interested as well. And this is another one of those things where we’re like: yep. What could go wrong? I mean, Halloween’s all year round for us anyway!”

Check out Wrong Side below before its official release and embrace your best spooky self.

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