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​​​6 August 2021

​Employed To Serve Release An Official Music Video For Current Single “Mark Of The Grave”

NEW STUDIO ALBUM CONQUERING OUT SEPTEMBER 17TH VIA SPINEFARM
UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES WITH GOJIRA

EMPLOYED TO SERVE have released an accompanying music video for their latest single, “Mark Of The Grave” – check it out HERE.

“Mark Of The Grave” is the second single from EMPLOYED TO SERVE’s forthcoming album, Conquering, and demonstrates the band at their most metal yet. The video is a trip, to say the least…

“With this video we just wanted to have fun,” says EMPLOYED TO SERVE frontwoman, Justine Jones. “After months of being cooped up inside, we wanted to focus on a project that was more light-hearted. We shot the music video at Miracle theatre in Cornwall with director Ryan Mackfall. The theatre was kind enough to give us free-reign of their studio and stage costumes. Everything was shot in front of a green screen to maximise the opportunity to have fun with the edit. We then sent over a few notes to VFX artist Nadav Rotem and assistant Jake Potter, as soon as they came back with Sammy doing a solo on a flying, flaming skull I knew it was going to be my favourite video – it’s wild and we love it.”

Conquering, due for release on September 17th 2021, will be EMPLOYED TO SERVE’s second full-length album on the Spinefarm label.

Drawing influence from the music of their youth and a new perspective on how to nurture the positive aspects of humanity and individual growth, Conquering is a celebration and acknowledgement of triumph in the face of a world that can be relentlessly adversarial.

ETS began recording the album in the “unforgiving winter” of 2020; produced & mixed by Lewis Johns at The Ranch, Southampton, mastered by Grant Berry at Fader Mastering, EMPLOYED TO SERVE took the time thrown at them by a world stopped still to write their most visceral material to date.

Pre-orders for EMPLOYED TO SERVE’s fourth studio album are now live, with an instant download of singles, “Exist” & “Mark Of The Grave,” plus special bundle options including t-shirts, hoodies, shorts, pink socks, skateboards and limited colour variant vinyl. Order your copy HERE.

  • CONQUERING
    TRACK LISTING:

    Universal Chokehold
    Exist
    Twist The Blade
    Sun Up To Sun Down
    The Mistake
    We Don’t Need You
    Set In Stone
    Mark Of The Grave
    World Ender
    Conquering
    Stand Alone 

EMPLOYED TO SERVE recently appeared on the mainstage of Download Festival at Donington Park. The event marked a moment in history, seeing live music return as part of a government-backed Pilot scheme. The Guardian noted Employed To Serve as a festival highlight, commenting, “Employed to Serve exude venom” whilst Metal Hammer called their set “relentless” & “blistering”; Kerrang! were just as enthused, adding, “Sammy Urwin’s sledgehammer riffs awaken Download’s inner headbanger, while Justine Jones’ barbed screams urge those gathered to toss any notion of social distancing in the bin.”

Following this appearance, EMPLOYED TO SERVE were swiftly announced as support to Gojira on their extensive UK & European tour.

UK & Euro 2022 tour dates in support of Gojira:

  • January ‘22

    17 Finland, Helsinki, Black Box

    19 Norway, Oslo, Sentrum Scene

    20 Sweden, Stockholm, The Annex

    22 Denmark, Copenhagen, Forum Black Box

    24 Germany, Berlin, Huxleys

    25 Czech Republic, Prague, Forum Karlin

    27 Poland, Wroclaw, A2

    28 Poland, Krakow, Tauron Arena

    29 Hungary, Budapest, Barba Negra Music Club

    31 Croatia, Zagreb, Culture Factory

  •  February ‘22

    2 Austria, Vienna, Arena

    4 Germany, Munich, Neue Theaterfabrik

    5 Switzerland, Zurich, Komplex

    6 Italy, Milan, Alcatraz

    8 France, Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier

    9 France, Bordeaux, Arkea Arena

    20 The Netherlands, Tilburg, 013

    22 Germany, Wiesbaden, Schlachthof

    24 Germany, Oberhausen, Turbinhalle 2

    26 France, Paris, Accor Arena

    28 Belgium, Brussels, Forest National

  • March ‘22

    1 Luxembourg, Rockhal

    4 UK, London, Alexandra Palace

    5 UK, Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena

    6 UK, Newcastle, City Hall

    8 UK, Glasgow, O2 Academy

    10 UK, Belfast, Ulster Hall

    11 Ireland, Dublin, National Stadium

    13 UK, Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse

    14 UK, Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena

     

Tickets to all shows are available now.

Additionally, ETS have been confirmed to play Spain’s Resurrection Fest 2022. Taking place across June 29th – 3rd July 2022 in Galicia, Spain, this mammoth metal festival will see Employed To Serve perform alongside Sabaton, Deftones, Judas Priest, Avenged Sevenfold and many more.

EMPLOYED TO SERVE ARE:

Justine Jones – Vocals

Sammy Urwin – Guitar & vocals

David Porter – Guitar

Nathan Pryor – Bass

Casey McHale – Drums

ABOUT EMPLOYED TO SERVE

EMPLOYED TO SERVE’s origins are essentially humble, with the core duo of Justine Jones (vocals) and Sammy Urwin (guitar / vocals) initially starting the band as a two-piece grindcore project backed by a drum machine.

Early experiences on the UK festival scene expanded their horizons and perceptions of what weightier music could be. Seeing heavy-hitters such as Converge, Meshuggah and Glassjaw alongside smaller but no less important acts like Rolo Tomassi, Veils and The Chariot inspired the duo to develop their vision.

2014 EP Change Nothing Regret Everything operated as a stepping stone into full band territory, before 2015’s critically acclaimed debut album, Greyer Than You Remember became their calling card, followed up two years later by The Warmth of a Dying Sun, then their 2019 Spinefarm debut, Eternal Forward Motion.

EMPLOYED TO SERVE have already proved themselves as a searingly intense and honest live experience, sharing bills with the cream of the crop of modern heavy music, including Code Orange, Bury Tomorrow, Stick To Your Guns, Loathe, Counterparts & Underoath. They’ve also decimated stages at some of the UK & Europe’s leading music festivals, the likes of Download, Glastonbury, Graspop & Hellfest.

And the accolades are unstoppable; from their Kerrang! ‘Album Of The Year’ win back in 2017, achieving the assumed impossible with a KKKKKK (yes, that is 6 K’s!) live review, landing in Metal Hammer’s reader & staff  ‘Top 10 Album’ polls, and a 2020 sold-out Underworld performance, to a plethora of cover features across Music Week, Metro Weekend, Upset & Kerrang!, EMPLOYED TO SERVE are unflinching at the forefront of metal innovation.