UK Heavy Rock band The Wildhearts published the official video for the single “Troubadour Moon” taken from upcoming album “Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts” due out on March 07, 2025 via Snakefarm. Watch the video through teh YouTube player below:
For three decades, The Wildhearts have remained at the forefront of the UK Rock scene. Through incendiary, festival-topping live shows and a life lived in the fast lane, they have cemented their reputation as one of the most prolific and notorious bands their homeland has produced. Now, they return with a brand-new studio album-their first for Snakefarm.
Titled “Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts” and produced and mixed by Jim Pinder and Carl Bown (Sleep Token, Bullet For My Valentine, While She Sleeps), the record is conceived musically, visually, and in spirit as a belated 10-track follow-up to their classic debut, “Earth vs The Wildhearts” (1993).
As always, frontman Ginger’s songwriting remains ambitious and impossible to pigeonhole. The album delivers songs of defiance and hope, raw emotion, and unfiltered energy-tracks that sound like nothing else on this planet or any explored part of space.
The first single, “Failure Is The Mother Of Success,” kicked things off late last year with a spectacular eight-minute journey full of twists and turns. Its message is clear, forged through hard-earned experience: it’s never too late to make a change and take a different path.
“‘Failure…’ is about getting back on your feet after things have gone wrong. There’s an old saying, ‘fall down three times, get up four.’ It’s about feeling like you’re worth getting back up for, and that making mistakes is just an essential part of life, everyone does it. It’s also a really good taster for the album as a whole, and has everything any Wildhearts fan could want!”
The follow-up single, “Troubadour Moon,” is a more concise, melodic punch, accompanied by a video packed with references to the band’s early history-some obvious, some obscure, and some tied to Ginger’s love of underground horror, particularly the works of giallo director Lucio Fulci.
“I was reading an interview with a well-known musician recently, and he was talking about this, how there aren’t any ‘troubadours’ anymore; I thought it was an interesting observation, so I’ve addressed it here, along with the idea of being yourself and not being swayed by trend or fashion, by the latest thing. If you allow that to happen, there’s the danger that you’ll always be one step behind or in someone else’s shadow…”
On the new album as a whole, Ginger comments:
“The songs on Satanic Rites… were written during a period of transition, from extremely negative to positive. I realised how much control I have over my mental health, and the songs came from that understanding. There’s everything here – catchy choruses, proper fuck-off riffs, anger, frustration, acceptance and revelation, with plenty of insane detours. The album starts pessimistic then ends up like ‘Ah, so I CAN turn my life around?’ It’s a hard rock album for people who love hard rock!”
Inspired by the 1970s Hammer horror film The Satanic Rites of Dracula, “Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts” marks The Wildhearts’ 11th studio album and is set for worldwide release on March 07, 2025. A third single, “I’ll Be Your Monster,” will drop ahead of the album-a Glam Rock stomper featuring Shining and Emperor member Jørgen Munkeby on guest saxophone.
“It’s about being the villain for a narcissist,” explains Ginger. “Like, ‘yeah, whatever, I’ll be your bogeyman, no problem.’ And Jørgen’s playing on the track is sensational – reminds me of Roy Wood!”
To support the album, The Wildhearts will embark on a major eight-date UK headline tour in March, with key European festival appearances to follow.
“We’ll be taking a full evening’s entertainment on the UK tour, kicking off with party-punks Dirt Box Disco, going to rock ‘n’ roll church with Jim Jones, then being flayed alive with The Wildhearts. The party starts when the doors open, so get a buzz on and get down early. Come join the Wildhearts’ community gathering. We guarantee you’ll leave with the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll firmly restored.”
