Leading lights of British metal, Employed To Serve, release new single, the title track from their forthcoming album, ‘Fallen Star.’

“'Fallen Star' is about enduring the burn out of someone close to us,” offer Employed To Serve front woman Justine Jones. “It can be devastating to look on helplessly as someone you care for continues to fly too close to the sun and not learn from it. Sometimes you need to just distance yourself and love them from afar. We felt it should be the title track as it thematically centers around the lyrics of the new record. Breaking bad habits and overcoming the challenges life throws our way.”

Watch the ‘Fallen Star’ official video, captured in front of an impressive video wall, HERE.

Justine adds: “The music video for this song displays the space and isolation felt whilst writing the lyrics for this song. As the title track of the album we wanted to make the video look as expansive and ethereal as the song.”

Check out previous single ‘Atonement’, HERE. The track features Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos, who in addition to his guttural growls, offers clean vocals for the first time ever on an album feature.

‘Fallen Star’ (the album) is due for release via Spinefarm on April 25th. Pre-orders, including a limited run of ‘black sunburst’ and ‘orange w/ black splatter’ vinyl as well as ‘spider black’ merch designs are exclusively available HERE. 

“We want to fly the flag for heavy metal and the traditions that it holds,” offers guitarist and songwriter Sammy Urwin, “But at the same time we want to play our part in taking things forward.” 

Since meeting in their teens on the outskirts of London, vocalist Justine Jones and guitarist / co-vocalist Sammy have had their sights fixed on the road ahead. At first, it was all about standing with the local scene bands they admired, but before long they were forging a path of their own, lifers with a mission, evolving from the feral mathcore of their early EPs to detonating a full-throttle career high with 2021 album, ‘Conquering’. 

And now there’s ‘Fallen Star’, an 11-track tour-de-force that sees the collective ETS vision refined to an even sharper degree… 

Produced and mixed by Lewis Johns, a longstanding presence behind the desk, it features a number of special guests, including Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach on ‘Whose Side Are You On?’ and Svalbard’s Serena Cherry on ‘Last Laugh’.  

‘Fallen Star’, the band’s third album via Spinefarm, is a record of dizzying diversity, yet also one that is utterly uncompromising. Taking a deliberately different path to the cathartic anger of fan favourite release, The Warmth of a Dying Sun (2017), ‘Fallen Star’ focuses on positive themes, such as finding inner confidence, sticking fearlessly to beliefs and embracing the power that flows within a tight-knit group. 

TRACK-LISTING  

Treachery  

Fallen Star  

Atonement (feat. Will Ramos)  

Breams Me Down  

Familiar Pain  

Brother, Stand Beside Me  

Now Thy Kingdom Come  

Last Laugh (feat. Serena Cherry)  

Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach)  

The Renegades   

From This Day Forward  

ETS have played every type of big show imaginable, from Bloodstock through to Glastonbury in the UK, and Hellfest, Wacken and Roskilde across Europe. On previous album, ‘Conquering’, they pulverised arenas all over the UK and Europe in support of metal behemoths, Gojira. 

In support of ‘Fallen Star’, Employed To Serve kick-off what is shaping up to be a mammoth touring schedule for 2025 with an April UK headline run, taking Celestial Sanctuary and Burner along as special guests. The 5-date stint finishes with their biggest London appearance yet, at 02 Academy Islington. 

EMPLOYED TO SERVE UK HEADLINE TOUR DATES w/ CELESTIAL SANCTUARY & BURNER 

APR 21 Wolverhampton @ KK’s Steel Mill 

APR 22 Glasgow @ The Cat House 

APR 23 Leeds @ The Key Club 

APR 24 Cardiff @ Clwb Ifor Bach 

APR 25 London @ 02 Academy Islington 

Tickets available here: hwww.employedtoserve.com/pages/shows

ETS will appear at a plethora of European summer festivals, including Graspop (Belgium), Jera On Air (The Netherlands) & 2000 Trees (UK). Details of further worldwide touring will be revealed in due course.

Employed To Serve have come, have seen, have conquered and now reign supreme as one of Britain’s brightest stars, hell bent on forging their legacy of Heavy Metal Unity. Long may it continue.  

EMPLOYED TO SERVE is:-  

Justine Jones – vocals  

Sammy Urwin – guitar, vocals  

David Porter – guitar   

Nathan Pryor - bass  

Casey McHale – drums  