Hear Shaking Chains’ soundtrack to impending nuclear Armageddon

Manchester band Shaking Chains are streaming their second single today scheduled for release on October 20th via Concrete Recordings. ‘Into Dust’ is a marching indie track that the band refer to as “the soundtrack to impending nuclear Armageddon” as explained below by bass/vocalist, Nathan Mcilroy.

Shaking Chains borrow their name from ‘The Masque of Anarchy’, a poem written when Shelley was in exile, to portray his disgust with the Peterloo Massacre and the encroaching parochialism of the England in which he fled (‘Shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many – they are few’). More Chartists than chart hits, they are a four piece produced in The North long after production halted, currently treading water under the dark streets of London (having played music together, in one form or another, since they were at school).

In an age where groups live and die in the time it takes them to amass a student loan debt, they have stayed together, like a dysfunctional family – chained – through mutual misunderstanding, begrudging love and harrowing shared experience. They’ve seen the changing musical landscape gorge on itself and spew out pale imitations, enough times, to inoculate themselves from hype and ceremony. Instead, they’ve concentrated on their neurotic craft and sullen art.

The band recently took the internet by storm with their unique, ever-changing film for first single ‘Midnight Oil’, inspiring features at the Guardian, BBC, The Creators Project and many more.

Shaking Chains are Jack Mahoney (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Nathan Mcilroy (Bass/Vocals), Alex Solo (Guitar/Vocals) & Jack Hardiker (Drums/Vocals). The single was produced and mixed by Oli Barton-Wood and recorded at The Gizzard Analogue Recording Studios in Bow, East London.

Pre-order ‘Into Dust’ on iTunes from https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/into-dust-single/id1275878566