Red have revealed the details for their new album “Rated R.” The effort will be available on September 29 and it will feature the following tracks:
01. “Surrogates”
02. “Your Devil Is A Ghost”
03. “Minus It All”
04. “Cold World”
05. “Tell Me How To Say Goodbye”
06. “The Suffering”
07. “Still Bleeding”
08. “Our Time Will Come”
09. “Last Forever”
10. “Emergency”
Guitarist Anthony Armstrong had the following to say about the record:
“We’re examining how there’s almost no authentic human interaction and empathy anymore. People jump online to be and say whatever they want. They talk without listening, and it results in bullying and violence. Plus, we lose so much by focusing 24/7 on technology instead of stripping away everything that doesn’t matter and seeing how beautiful and healing it is to live with only what’s necessary.”
Bassist Randy Armstrong added:
“Traditional family values and systems are broken and it’s causing chaos. Kids are forced to do active shooter drills at school, and it breaks our hearts. As the saying goes, hurt people hurt people, and we’re definitely seeing that. There’s also the notion that we learn by suffering and making the wrong decisions. As philosopher Meister Eckhart stated: ‘The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.’
It’s ‘Rated R’ for Red and we always try to be a bit provocative to get our audience thinking with how our records look and what they’re called.”
A new song from the album, titled “Surrogates,” can be found below. Anthony also commented on that:
“Red fans will love how ‘Surrogates’ builds upon the story we’ve been telling since our second LP [2009’s ‘Innocence & Instinct’]. We’re going back to the 1890s Old West because it’s the prequel to the entire series.”