Nothing More drop official music video for 'Turn It Up Like (Stand in the Fire)'
31 March 2022
Newsdesk
Multi-GRAMMY-nominated rock act NOTHING MORE just dropped the official music video for their new song “TURN IT UP LIKE (Stand in the Fire).” The track, released via Better Noise Music on Friday, gives fans a first taste of the band’s long-awaited new studio album due later this year. The new visual, directed by Robyn August (Snoop Dogg, Pitbull), continues the band’s striking red and white color schemes used on their last album and showcases the intense and urgent energy of the song’s lyrics. Co-written by all four band members, the track is an unapologetic sonic rejection of the divisive, digitally-drowned state of the world with lyrics like: “All my friends are dead/ They all got fucked by the internet/ All my friends are dead/ Our brain’s bein’ bugged by the media.” Watch the music video below.
Billboard gave an exclusive look at the music video this past weekend, including some statements from the band’s frontman Jonny Hawkins. He said, “Something we’ve always pushed for as a band is to question everything. And I think we’ve just gone through a period where it had been unfashionable to question things. Because if you did, you were the pariah, you were the outcast, the other. For the last few years, I’ve felt like an animal in a cage, just pacing, and my teeth are showing more. I had nowhere to vent that rage and that frustration until we put it into this song. I think a lot of people feel this way. You saw it spill over into riots and protests. There’s all this stuff just pent up inside people. Thankfully, we’re going back out on the road soon, so I’ll have somewhere to put it.”
The upcoming album is the highly anticipated follow-up to NOTHING MORE’s 2017 LP The Stories We Tell Ourselves, which earned the band three GRAMMY nominations, including Best Rock Album, and Best Rock Song and Best Rock Recording for the single “Go To War.” This new track and accompanying video come ahead of the album’s official first radio single, which is set for an April 29 release across streaming and digital platforms. Stay tuned for more details coming from the band’s official social media channels.
Fans will be able to hear the new music live on the band’s recently announced co-headlining U.S. tour this spring, with Better Noise Music label mates Asking Alexandria, with support from Atreyu and Eva Under Fire. The tour is set to kick off in Kansas City, MO on May 13 and end in Houston, TX on June 19, with other stops planned in Nashville, Denver, Atlanta, New Orleans, and more - see full list of dates below. Tickets, VIP Meet & Greets and additional information are available here.
NOTHING MORE Spring U.S. Tour Dates (with Asking Alexandria): May 13 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater May 14 - Oklahoma City, OK - The Criterion May 15 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom May 17 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle May 18 - New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore New Orleans May 20 - Birmingham, AL - Avondale Brewing Company May 21 - Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome to Rockville* May 23 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE* May 24 - Rochester, NY - Main Street Armory* May 25 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore May 27 - Montclair, NJ - The Wellmont Theater May 28 - Wallingford, CT - The Dome at Oakdale May 29 - Reading, PA - Theatre at Santander Arena* May 31 - Cincinnati, OH - The Andrew J Brady Music Center June 1 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works June 3 - Chicago, IL - The Riviera* June 4 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre June 5 - Cleveland, OH - Agora Theater* June 7 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore Detroit June 8 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee June 9 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant June 12 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium June 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex June 15 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues June 16 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren June 18 - San Antoni, TX - Tech Port Center + Arena June 19 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
ABOUT NOTHING MORE Rock audiences count NOTHING MORE among the most cherished acts, the kind of band who straddle the line between populism and intimacy with every performance. The San Antonio, Texas-born quartet builds unapologetically massive anthems from catchy hooks. Crowd-pleasers clear a path for heady, confessional, thought-provoking emotionalism. Fresh rewards reveal themselves with repeat listens, welcoming like-minded seekers with rich melodicism, like the best of Deftones or Tool.
Those who saw the band on tour with hard rock heavyweights like Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, and Disturbed will attest to what The Guardian observed: “There’s a sophistication to NOTHING MORE’s angst that raises them above the tumult-tossed pit.”
Kerrang! named NOTHING MORE one of 22 Artists Shaping the Future of Rock, alongside Nine Inch Nails, Twenty One Pilots, and Bring Me The Horizon. And frontman Jonny Hawkins, who met guitarist Mark Vollelunga before they were old enough to drive, appeared with Billie Joe Armstrong, Dave Grohl, and Hayley Williams in the English tastemaker’s Top 50 Greatest Rockstars in the World.
Hawkins and Vollelunga started the band in 2003 and were quickly joined by bassist Daniel Oliver and later by drummer Ben Anderson. The band’s blend of explosive bombast and nuanced storytelling resulted in a half dozen Top 10 singles at Mainstream Rock Radio, including the No. 1 hit “Go to War” and the Sirius XM Octane song of the decade and Active Rock chart-topper “This is the Time (Ballast).” The Stories We Tell Ourselves earned a head-turning three Grammy nominations. They’re set to follow it up with a new album in 2022, which is filled with their most philosophical and primal music to date. The first offering, “TURN IT UP LIKE,” released in March 2022, is a fitting first taste of what’s to come.
NOTHING MORE appeals to fans of Linkin Park, Incubus, Rage Against The Machine, and all crucial acts that stoke relatable passion with authenticity and integrity. Memorize the arena-ready hooks. Get mesmerized by the intimate, communal live show. Dig deeper down the rabbit hole into the work of philosophers and artists like Eckhart Tolle, Carl Jung, and Alan Watts, who inspire the band. There’s a place for every type of rock fan with NOTHING MORE. Built to last, here to stay.
