Rock band DIRT, who made a convincing impression with their Deadbeat debut album, have just released their single Born Again. This is the Helsinki-based five-piece’s first release in over three years, and it also marks the end of their silence on the gig front, as the band took the stage at DIRT’s already traditional Halloween party last Friday at Helsinki’s On The Rocks.
“After the sold-out Danko Jones gig in 2023, we had a feeling in Tavastia that things weren’t going to get any better and that we had to move on,” the band comments, continuing: “We toured as much as we could for the debut album and got more back from the fans and the music industry than we could have ever expected. We ended the first album cycle there, put the tour calendar on hold completely, and started focusing on making the second album. From there, we insidiously fell into a vacuum that took us a long time to recover from.”
Over the past three years, DIRT has spent more time together without instruments than with them, which was a necessity for the band to continue. They focused on practically completely recreating the band’s culture of conversation and began to open up the knots between the members that had been simmering in the background for a long time.
“We have had to do an awful lot of work, both with ourselves on a personal level and also with each other, to get the will to work together back. There were internal conflicts under the surface, and things could no longer continue in the same way as before. Ironical in a way, since the band is still as tough as diamonds. But the joy of working had to be rediscovered. Fortunately, the starting point has always been that these five guys in particular want to continue together, because otherwise we wouldn’t be here.”
The Born Again single also has a particularly great weight in that it serves as a game-changer for the band’s expected comeback and opens the curtain on the world of the second album, which will be released in 2026. The new song therefore means rebirth in a very concrete way.
“Our common feeling is what the title of the song suggests. Now it feels good to work together and it was important that we took our time, even though many thought we were putting our heads in the sand. On the contrary; we made our best song so far, and now it’s yours.”
The single was produced by Juho Salaterä and mastered by Riku Kuikka.
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