\u201cTurn The Tide\u201d is the new single by SATAN. The cut comes by way of the band\u2019s forthcoming new full-length, “Songs In Crimson,” set for release on September 13th via Metal Blade Records. You can check out the music video for the song below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While “Songs In Crimson” features lyrics including \u201ca once-great nation is going down\u201d and \u201cthis is the end of an era,\u201d Satan offers no quick fix. “There is always hope; solutions are not for us musicians to proclaim,” guitarist Russ Tippins believes. “Each song has its own different theme. While there is no title track as such, the song ‘Deadly Crimson,\u2019 which is an anti-capitalism narrative, is as close as it gets to that. As a concept, making money from money is fatally flawed in that it depends on constant growth,” Tippins says. “But constant growth is obviously impossible; a conveyor belt of sacrificial lambs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tippins continues, “\u2018Turn The Tide\u2019 is the classic \u2018King Canute\u2019 scenario — the deluded head of state who believes himself to be divine and sets out to prove it by standing in front of the sea and ordering the waves to retreat. They don\u2019t of course. We are kind of using that as an allegory to illustrate the ridiculous standpoint of certain Jingoistic Brits who believe that foreigners have no place in our country. It\u2019s the shortest song on the album. And also the fastest!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n