Oh dang Satan has a new album coming out in September, so they have a video for Turn the Tide available! These guys have been shredding NWOBHM since 1979, so it’s great to see them keeping at it.

This is a fun track, right in the wheelhouse of Satan’s speedy verses and more harmonic choruses. There’s even some fun wah wah in the intro! Brian Ross has solid pipes that fit in really well with the band, glad he’s able to keep at it for 40 years, especially with his falsettos! There’s a quite shreddy dueling solo at the 3-minute mark, complete with the knee slide that shows off a good guitar solo.

The youtube description says it an allegory to jingoistic brits who think they can change the course of history by yelling at it. Like a dumb king yelling at the tide to stop coming in. So that’s pretty cool.

It’s a pretty straightforward “shot in a church” type video. They do some weird visualization elements on the musicians themselves, like a weird dream or the video is buffering really poorly. Some of this looks like they used AI to make the visuals, which is kinda lame. Just pay someone to draw stuff. Or use actual footage. I don’t need to see weird trippy blendy stuff that keeps changing what it is because AI is weird. And it’s supposed to be a king shouting at the sea while the tide comes in. That seems easy as hell to shoot practically. There are plenty of old dudes in England who could look like a king.

All in all it’s a pretty solid song and I look forward to the rest of the album on September 13th!