News: Red Seas Fire Are No ‘Prisoner’: Northern Quartet Unconfined By Genre In New Video Single

Following the track’s debut play on the Radio One Rock Show, Northern Quartet Red Seas Fire are pleased to unveil the video for single ‘Prisoner’ here.

The claustrophobic visuals are the result of working with Zac Pinchin, whom vocalist Robin Adams met through his pals in Blood Youth: “The idea for Prisoner’s video came from wanting to convey the themes and message of the song without taking a too literal or cliché approach by just doing something prison related. It’s about not listening to the people who tell you what you want in life can’t be attained and that sometimes the biggest obstacle to overcome is your own self-doubt and ultimately finding acceptance in that. As a result, Zak came back with the idea of a room gradually reducing in size throughout expressing the feeling of being trapped.”

Marking a new musical direction for the band, in what is effectively classed by the quartet as ‘Red Seas Fire 2.0’, the reimagining follows two-fifths falling from the band’s ranks, due to ill-health, in June 2015. Defeat felt, unsurprisingly, close at hand, as it followed 5 years of build, during which time RSF crafted themselves a respected corner in the tech-metal and djent scenes. “It’s taken us a little while to get back on our feet,” admits Adams, “But, ultimately we were given a rare opportunity to reassess where we were as a band, and attack the sound we put out from here on out with revitalized influences and a newborn passion for what we create.”

That passion is certainly evident on ‘Prisoner’; though no less sonically intense than the band’s previous body of work, the track sees RSF (completed by drummer Jake Fogarty - Drums, guitarist Ales Mauric and bassist Jack Barrett) stripping back the progressive technicality in favour of a more direct, in-your-face approach - drawing kinetic influence from hardcore’s feral, built-for-sweaty-clubs energy, but mixing it with an arena-ready chorus hook from frontman Adams. Says the singer: “We’ve all moved on a lot from when we set out to write the previous records. ‘Prisoner’ is the first track that we wrote after the initial loss of our previous members. It’s raw, it’s catchy and we feel it’s great transition track between the old material and the new. We’re very excited to deliver this new music to fans proudly under the banner of Red Seas Fire.”