DZ DEATHRAYS RELEASE NEW ALBUM POSITIVE RISING: PART 2

“It’s built on the intuitive interplay between Parsons and Ewbank, whose heavily textured playing doesn’t always sound like guitars — more like a twin malevolent force that every so often waxes celestial, like sunlight spearing through storm clouds.” – The Australian (4/5)

“Moody Aussie noisemakers DZ Deathrays bring the concept album back to life. Again…”
– Kerrang (4/5)

“DZ Deathrays have gone beyond the noise and energy (which was excellent) that they had from the start and have created something truly epic, memorable and monumental. If there is any justice in this world, they should be huge.” – Wall of Sound (10/10)

Today it is with great pleasure that I OH YOU present you with DZ Deathrays’ fifth studio album, Positive Rising: Part 2, and share new track/video ‘Kerosene’.

With a moodier tone than its predecessor, PRP2 draws the outline of an apocalyptic scene, one that sees the band stepping outside of themselves, seeking out new perspectives and surveying the world from above. From up there, they don’t always like what they see.

‌I’m hoping for a positive rising / Capsized but the tide is turning / I feel the temperature rising / Chastised but the fire is burning.

“That lyric – Hoping for a positive rising – is about hoping that there was going to be this good thing that comes from the underground and sweeps up and overtakes all of the negativity,” Parsons says.

Following this on Tuesday 13 July the band will host a live online listening party with their fans. Kicking off at 7.30pm AEST via the band’s Facebook and YouTube, fans from all around the world can tune in for a beer with the band, ask them questions and hear the record in full!

Positive Rising: Part 2 (PR:P2) is the highly anticipated follow up to 2019’s Positive Rising: Part 1. After decamping to Los Angeles to record ‘Part 1’, the band returned home along with producer Miro Mackie to record ‘Part 2’, leading to a tonal shift between the albums. However, they’re designed to be treated as two halves of a whole, from the songs, which the band hopes will be played from beginning to end, to the artwork. “If you put those two album pictures together, it shows a full day. It’s like a yin and yang, showing the full spectrum.”

Latest track ‘Kerosene’ is one of the darker offerings and comes with a video directed by Joe Agius (Hatchie/The Creases). Stemming from an idea that sparked during a writing session with The Presets’ Kim Moyes (the beat you hear at the start of the track is from a demo made that day), it’s no surprise the result is a stadium-ready rock anthem.