Dutch garage rock band Iguana Death Cult release new song "Oh No"
With their new studio album Echo Palace arriving next month, Dutch garage rock band Iguana Death Cult have unveiled another single from the release today.
The track “Oh No” comes with a music video directed by frequent collaborator hache.mov. The band said this about the new song and accompanying music video:
"Inspired by Dutch writer Jan Cremer, I decided to write a song about how incredibly amazing I am. This sort of self-mythification seemed funny to me since I spend most of my days wallowing in doubt and worry. In the end it became a metaphor for how we polish up our lives to near perfection on our social media accounts, while mental health problems are becoming more norm rather than an exception.
One night, I played the new record for our good friend Max. When 'Oh No' came on and I heard myself sing the first line, I knew it; We have to get this guy in a knight costume. Max is a 6 foot 5 berserker but also one of the sweetest guys I know. We had so much fun making this video even though it was freezing and we had to hide from the rain every ten minutes. The banter you can have with this guy is unprecedented. One of the sharpest tongues in the game. Everything was filmed in Rotterdam again. Can't represent this beautiful city enough! Because this song has a bit of an old school Iguana feel to it, Hache wanted to use a lot of video distortion like he did back in the day when he made the videos for our first record."
Echo Palace will arrive on May 12 via Innovative Leisure. Pre-orders for the album can be made here.
Iguana Death Cult will end April with a trio of performances in the U.K. Forthcoming performances can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now.
Iguana Death Cult tour dates
28/04 - Rough Trade, Bristol ^
29/04 - Moth Club, London
30/04 - Hope and Ruin, Brighton ^
06/05 - Rotown, Rotterdam *
12/05 - Merleyn, Nijmegen ~
13/05 - Altstadt, Eindhoven
19/05 - Pier15, Breda *
20/05 - EKKO, Utrecht *
26/05 - VERA, Groningen ~
27/05 - Skatecafe, Amsterdam ~
10/06 - Trix, Antwerpen
^ = with KLEN
* = with Real Farmer
~ = with Library Card