Magnolia Park are back inside the world of Nocturne Nexus, and they’ve brought six more tracks with them. ‘Nights After Vamp,’ the deluxe expansion of their concept album ‘VAMP,’ arrives March 13th via Epitaph, picking up the dystopian narrative with the same explosive energy that made the original such a singular listen. Seventeen tracks total, one relentless sonic universe, and a band that refuses to think small.
The preview comes in the form of “HIGH,” a smoldering new single featuring alt-rockers Arrows in Action. Vocalist Joshua Roberts leads with soulful R&B instincts over alt-metal muscle, bouncy rhythms, and pummeling drums. The band described the track’s drive directly: “We wanted to explore the initial rush of finding new love and the innate desire of lust that comes with it.” It hits exactly as hard as that sounds.
The production muscle behind ‘Nights After Vamp’ is formidable. Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Wage War), Hiram Hernandez (blessthefall), and Andy Karpovck (408, Taylor Acorn) handled production alongside the band’s in-house team, with Zakk Cervini (Bad Omens, Bring Me The Horizon) on mixing duties. The result is a record that stacks whirring electronics and industrial undertones against sledgehammer breakdowns and walls of detuned guitars, all of it filtered through a narrative inspired by Vampire Hunter D, Star Wars, Dracula, and Joseph Campbell’s monomyth.
Hard rock, punk, nu-metal, hip-hop, and metalcore, Magnolia Park pulls from all of it without losing the thread. ‘Nights After Vamp’ is a multisensory experience built by a band that knows exactly what kind of world they’re creating.