DevilDriver debuted their new single “Iona” and released the music video for it as well. Drontman Dez Fafara says that “Iona” is unlike any other DevilDriver song that they’ve put out:
“From the frantic verses to the haunting chorus, this song is another move forward to push our sound and the listener’s ears into the fray!
The chorus, ‘She carries a black rose, effigy from a story closed,’ tells the story of the long dead ghost of Iona and her obsession with death represented by the black roses in her hands — each one the soul of someone she’s taken from this life on a lonely dark road, assimilating their souls into black roses, which she carries for eternity.
This theme relates to myself and Dealing With Demons in that oftentimes we as people have a hard time ‘letting go’ of things. This can be applied to relationships, death, and so on. Iona carrying the black roses symbolizes her inability to move on — always seeking revenge. The past is exactly that — the past. It’s important to let go and not be stuck in a perpetual loop of living in it.”
The song will be off the band’s upcoming double album Dealing With Demons. The first album Dealing With Demons I will be available on October 9th.
Fafara said they are doing a double album because he will never revisit these subjects. He said that these topics haunt him and that over the years he had to flee wild fires, his wife had cancer, and now the pandemic, so he just wants to lay it all out. He also added that the second half of the double album will be even harder.
The first single off the Devildriver’s upcoming album, “Keep Away From Me”, was released in May. The official lyric video for that song can be seen below.
Dealing With Demons I track listing:
01 – “Keep Away From Me”
02 – “Vengeance Is Clear”
03 – “Nest Of Vipers”
04 – “Iona”
05 – “Wishing”
06 – “You Give Me A Reason To Drink” (feat. Simon Blade Fafara)
07 – “Witches”
08 – “Dealing With Demons”
09 – “The Damned Don’t Cry”
10 – “Scars Me Forever”
