Cloud Nothings Announce New Album What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?: Hear “Death Keeps Me Alive”

For more something like a decade and a half, if not longer, Cloud Nothings have been among the most consistent forces on the indie rock landscape. But maybe they're itching to get out of that landscape and explore some different ones. These days, Cloud Nothings record for Pure Noise, a label mostly rooted in post-hardcore. Two years ago, they dropped a Misfits cover on a Pure Noise comp. And today, Cloud Nothings announce plans to follow 2024's Final Summer with What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?, a new album that's sonically rooted in metal and heavy rock.If you ever heard their 2012 classic Attack On Memory, then you already know Cloud Nothings can get truly heavy when they want. Drummer Jayson Gerycz is a mega-beast who can play fast and heavy at the same time. So the idea of a metal-influenced Cloud Nothings album isn't that much of a stretch. Still, it's fun to hear them shift into that gear without losing their personality on new single "Death Keeps Me Alive." (Sick title.) It's a vaguely doomy riff-monster that made me think of both Cave-In and the Wipers, and it even gets a tiny bit black metal toward the end.Here's what frontman Dylan Baldi says about the new album and abo...