Switzerland’s titans of brutality, Paleface Swiss, are back with a vengeance! Today, the band unveils their brutal new single, “Hatred”, alongside the official announcement of their highly anticipated third full-length album, Cursed, set to drop January 3rd, 2025.
Fans can experience the full, savage force of the new single and its accompanying music video by streaming the track and watching the music video below. Pre-order your copy of Cursed now.
“Hatred”, the album’s ferocious lead single, delivers everything fans have come to love from Paleface Swiss: relentlessly visceral intensity, Zelli’s instantly recognisable, rapid fire rap-style vocals, Yannick Lehmann’s insane thrash-inspired solos and ten-tonne heavy nu-metal-esque riffs and the pummelling rhythmic backbone of Tommy Lee’s basslines and Cassiano “Cassi'” Toma’s drumming, providing lightening fast blast beats and brutal beatdowns.
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Speaking on the track, Marc “Zelli” Zellweger shares, “When you’re a kid growing up, you’re happy and you think everything is cool, but nowadays, every time you open your phone, it’s just a flood of negativity. We’re bombarded with so much bad news every day that finding anything positive feels nearly impossible. ‘Hatred’ is us venting our frustration about the things we can’t change. It may not be as deep as the other tracks on the album, but it’s for everyone who’s fed up with the constant negativity in the world. For the music video, we wanted to keep it simple and raw—a no-nonsense, old-school performance video with us going as hard as we can in a room. There are, however, a few easter eggs hidden in there that will make more sense as we release more videos from this album.”
“Hatred” also begins with album intro track, “Un Pobre Niño Murió”, a reimagining of a song the band heard for the first time when they decamped to Tenerife, where their close friend and tour manager, Ron Steven Deris, lives, to write their new record.
Elaborating on the story, “Zelli” continues, “We went to Ron’s place in Tenerife, and every morning and every evening we had breakfast and dinner together. We always listened to vinyl while eating, and one evening he pulled out a Canary Islands folklore vinyl with very old songs—like all of the artists on these songs had been dead for many years—and this song came on with just one woman singing by herself. It’s supposed to be a children’s lullaby, but it was actually scary. The lyrics are the complete opposite of a lullaby.”
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Cursed is out on January 5th
