Black Midi have released ‘Eat Men Eat’, another cut from their third album ‘Hellfire’.The song is accompanied by a Maxim Kelly-directed video, which you can watch below.
It’s the second song taken from their forthcoming album after last month’s ‘Welcome To Hell’.‘Hellfire’ follows last year’s ‘Cavalcade’ and the London experimental rock band’s 2019 debut, ‘Schlagenheim’.‘Eat Men Eat’ was written by Black Midi bassist/vocalist Cameron Picton and tells the tale of a disturbing desert quest.“The story starts in the desert with two men engaged in a desperate search for missing friends,” Picton said of the song’s inspiration in a press release. “Their quest leads them to a strange mining facility which, despite a dearth of natural resources in the area, opens its doors for even stranger hosts to welcome them.“That evening, with zero sign of their friends, a massive feast is laid on by the mine’s cantankerous Captain, who performs a long speech encouraging all to indulge as this is to be the workers’ last night before returning to their families.
With good reason for suspicion the protagonists feign gluttony and consume as little as humanly possible.”He continued: “Unfortunately, as they later find, even that’s not quite enough.
Night falls, they hide and as the workers fall comatose, the wardens, overseen by the Captain, make preparations to pump their poisoned stomachs.
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