Rock And Blues International - Sept. 2020

Longstanding Industrial Metal Band SOCIETY 1 Debut New Video for “Get Up Again” sure everyone right now is feeling somewhat By Tank destroyed and that’s understandable. Things The Los Angeles based Industrial aren’t easy. The point of the song is to Metal band, Society 1 has just released their say...take a breath, refocus then get up again new video for the song “Get Up Again,” and just keep going no matter what.” which will be included on their upcoming The video was directed by Zane, from album release, Black Level Six. Just two months ago, the band released a futuristic sci- Lord Zane Productions. Though you may not be familiar with Lord Zane Productions, no fi styled video for the song “Bleed You doubt you’ve seen some of their work. They Away” from the same album. “Bleed You are the force behind videos for Zakk Wylde, Away” and “Get Up Again” can be streamed DMC (Run DMC), Static-X, John 5 and now via Spotify. many others. This is also one of the first “Get Up Again” was written by videos to feature the current lineup for Society 1 vocalist Lord Zane, who tells us Society 1. Although this incarnation of the that “This is the most positive song I’ve ever band had been on the road prior to the written.” He continues on to reveal about the shutdown, this video may be the first time song, “It’s basically about getting up after that a lot of fans will have seen them. They getting knocked down, no matter how many have been recording and touring with this times you may find yourself in less than lineup since 2019. They had hit the road for desirable situations. Whatever happens, just keep getting back up to fight another day. I’m the Static-X Memorial Tour and had been 78 Rock and Blues International • September 2020

performing together until the lockdowns started. Zane is extremely proud of the new lineup. He truly believes that this is the best group of musicians he could have ever picked for this project. “This line up came together fast and it just clicked,” Zane says. “It feels great to finally get the new line up in a proper video. We didn’t have a lot of downtime to do videos but now, due to the pandemic, we have all the time we need since touring is on hold. When we decided to create this, we just wanted to create a video that was very abstract and didn’t really take place anywhere in reality. We figured, ‘Let’s visually escape for this one.’ Everyone wants a little escape right now including us.” Black Level Six is the sixth album release from Society 1. Previously they have released four studio albums, a live album, and a compilation album as a band. Lead singer Zane has released a spoken word poetry album on his own. Album titles include Slacker Jesus (1999), Words as Carriers (2002), Exit Through Fear (2003), The Sound That Ends Creation (2006), The Years of Spiritual Dissent (2006), Live And Raw (2008), as well as a couple of independent releases. The band has also built up quite a reputation for themselves for doing things a little out of the norm, such as their performance at the Download Festival where vocalist Zane performed the entire set suspended by meat hooks through his back. You know that definitely freaked out the audience. He has been known to do similar types of performance like this as well. The 13 tracks for Black Level Six were recorded at Pawnshop studios, and mixed by Greg Hetson, Shane Smith and Blake Harden. It was mastered by Mike Wells, and coproduced by Patrick Burkholder. The theme of the album is based on recovering from heartbreak and is spearheaded by Zane’s “cutting-edge songwriting and lyrical mastery.” Zane approaches the subject in more of an unconventional way, which fits in with Society 1’s reputation. The band’s music on this album has also been described as “very somber, but very delicate in a way – and sad and creepy all at the same time.” Members of the band include lead vocalist Zane, Russian drummer Zhenya Pro, bassist Jimmy Minj, and guitarist Johnny Pilz. Black Level Six is scheduled for release later this year, as no date has been officially set.