HMLTD deliver new single "The End Is Now"

After announcing The Worm in January with the lead single "Wyrmlands", HMLTD have delivered a second cut from the record titled "The End Is Now", which is accompanied by a video directed by the band's lead vocalist Henry Spychalski.

""The End Is Now" tells of how the titular Worm was finally awoken by hydraulic fracking of the English countryside, and swallows England whole," Spychalski explains. "The Worm here is both a metaphor for capitalist greed, and the embodiment of a whole generation's anxiety, dread and fear in the face of ever-looming apocalypse and world-ending natural disasters."

HMLTD’s The Worm album was created over two years, and features 47 different musicians including a gospel choir and a 16-piece string orchestra. It’ll follow their 2020 debut album West of Eden.

Spychalski adds of the album, "We’re told to believe that anxiety and depression are purely material and biological - like a parasitic worm that can be removed with the right treatment. I think that really these conditions reflect the world that surrounds us - like colonies that a far bigger worm has made in each of us - the psychological havoc wreaked by our inescapable capitalist reality and looming apocalypse it has created."