The Used Debut New Single “Paradise Lost, A Poem By John Milton” From Upcoming ‘Heartwork’ Album Due April 24th

The Used have released the first single from their upcoming album ‘Heartwork’ called “Paradise Lost, A Poem By John Milton.” The album will arrive on April 24th and features guest appearances from Jason Aalon Butler (Fever 333), Caleb Shomo (Beartooth), and Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker from Blink-182.

On Saturday, Cutter and Kaytie sat down with The Used frontman Bert McCracken where Bert talked about the first single “Paradise Lost”:

“There’s a little arrangement in a song we made with a really special poem of mine, its the title track for the record on this new one and the poem has been around probably since 2012. I wrote it in a really kind of horrible moment, a violent moment, an extreme moment. But you captured it and so you have that feeling, you have that little kind of capsule of that moment kind of ready, locked and loaded, whenever you want to pull it out, where ever you want to put it. And if it’s good, it really does, you can read it five or six years later and be like okay I still feel that. I still feel that from where it came from.”

As far as the new album is concerned, McCracken said that the band said yes to every idea and had over 30 songs for the record before cutting it in half:

“We had about 30 songs finished and I think there’s only 15 on the record so we’ll have a really cool B-Sides record coming out hopefully later this year. We wanted the record to kinda showcase the different elements within the studio. Like some of the songs sound straight live like you would be hearing them from the stage. And some of the songs are kind of back to the first and second record style of production where it’s like some of the sounds are full production, its full like you’re in a little world of your own inside these songs.”

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