UnityTX have shared their newest single ‘Lost In Dayz’ off of their upcoming album ‘Ferality.’ “‘Lost In Dayz’ is about growing up and watching everything turn to black” shares the band on the new track. “I often reminisce in nostalgia but it feels like I’m daydreaming my life away. You eventually start to lose track of everything and find yourself only waking up just to fall asleep after strenuous thoughts have thrilled you all day.”
“You never know how much of the irreverent constant you can handle.”
UnityTX have announced their new album ‘Ferality,’ due for release on September 8th via Pure Noise Records. Produced by Andrew Wade (Wage War, A Day To Remember), ‘Ferality’ finds UnityTX confronting the last few years head-on with a blistering cocktail of car crash energy, sludgy horror-show macabre, industrial metal sheen, and sinister subliminality.
“‘Ferality’ has been a challenge of what it is to prevail while tiptoeing on the edge of sanity like an animal being tormented in a cage,” says the band. “One could be driven completely unhinged when the effort is not acknowledged — this is an example. I speak on how it feels to not be welcomed into a space that was for the misunderstood – how it feels to lose yourself through creation, relations, and being complacent. I’ve given yet another part of myself to complete this piece of work. Set to deliver with my prosperity.”
‘FERALITY’ follows UnityTX‘s 2019’s ‘Madboy,’ their first EP for Pure Noise Records that elevated the Dallas-based quartet (Webster, guitarist Ricky Cova, bassist Kendrick Nicholson and drummer Jonathan Flores) onto tours with the likes of Silverstein, The Amity Affliction and Poppy and shone a spotlight on the genre-bending sonic blend UnityTX have been building in the underground since 2014.
“We put out ‘Madboy’ and then COVID hit. It was like we were having to start back at square one,” Webster admits. “That anxiety, the feeling like it’s not good enough no matter how hard you’re working – it really took a toll on me. It feels like you’re an animal in a cage, dealing with repetition and anger until you hit your breaking point.”
There’s not much self-grace given, from the opening notes of ‘Rotting Away (Gore),’ bathed in seven-string doom, to the haunting ‘Sting’ and album standout ‘Lost In Dayz,’ which paints an all-too-familiar cycle of anxiety-induced anger and lost innocence that bubbles to the album’s most harrowing chorus.
But when UnityTX cut these more caustic moments, whether with the swinging verve of ‘Roc Sh!t,’ leading with full-chested machismo and swagger, or some of their most brilliantly melodic material to date ‘Ferality’ really begins to take shape, marrying the brutality of turn-of-the-century hard rock, swagger of hardcore hip-hop, and shapeshifting spirit of new-age metalcore, careening through the last 25 years of heavy music while pushing the genre forward in captivating new ways.
“I started doing this because I wanted to play music with my friends, then eventually I realized it had potential because I could write and say anything I wanted,” Webster explains. “I want our music to be hip-hop-adjacent but also into old-school nü-metal and hardcore and metalcore – all of it. People always say, ‘Oh, you sound like this band or that band.’ Bro, I’m just a songwriter.”
‘Ferality’ tracklist:
01. Rotting Away (Gore)
02. Burnout
03. Diamond Diez
04. Power
05. Picture This
06. Sting
07. Lost In Dayz
08. Killing Alchemy
09. Roc Sh!t
10. Fake Luc
11. World Of Malice
UnityTX will be hitting the road with nothing,nowhere., SeeYouSpaceCowboy, and Static Dress on The Void Eternal Tour. Check the dates below:
September 5th – Higher Ground – South Burlington, VT
September 6th – Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
September 8th – Big Night Live – Boston, MA
September 9th – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
September 10th – Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
September 12th – Thunderbird Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA
September 13th – Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, CAN
September 14th – The Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
September 17th – Mahall’s – Lakewood, OH
September 18th – The KING of CLUBS – Columbus, OH
September 20th – Hi-Fi – Indianapolis, IN
September 22nd – Red Flag – St. Louis, MO
September 23rd – Heaven at The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
September 25th – Revolution Live – Fort Lauderdale, FL
September 26th – The Orpheum Tampa – Tampa, FL
September 28th – Empire Control Room & Garage – Austin, TX
September 29th – The Studio at the Factory – Dallas, TX
October 1st – Sunshine Theatre – Albuquerque, NM
October 2nd – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
October 3rd – The Union Event Center – Salt Lake City, UT
October 6th – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
October 8th – The Catalyst – Santa Cruz, CA
October 10th – The Regent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
October 11th – House of Blues San Diego – San Diego, CA
October 12th – Observatory – Santa Ana, CA