Listen to Every Hell's raucous new single Catching Thunder

Every Hell have shared a huge new single, Catching Thunder.

The song is the second new track the Bristol/Brighton wrecking crew have put out since the release of their 2024 EP Vertebrate and the expansion of the band to a quintet. It follows the single Let Me Go, which dropped in March, and offers a preview into a new direction Every Hell are taking.

“Catching Thunder was one of the earliest tracks that we wrote together after the Vertebrate EP,” vocalist and saxophonist Will Gardner. We actually tracked it last July at Middle Farm Studios with Pete [Miles] so it’s been in the works for some time, but was worth the wait as this track shows the new direction that Every Hell is taking. Lyrically the song is about staying strong and keeping self-belief in difficult times. The oxymoron of Catching Thunder itself is a bit like trying to catch air…you can't.

“I think the first idea we had was Andrew’s (Gosden) bass line and I had the vocal hook written for that already, and then we all jammed out the QOTSA-esque chorus riff together. The ending was a bit more contentious, and a few arguments were had around it, but that full on STOMP, dragon riding 6/8 vibe at the end just felt too good not to use. Even though it makes it a very difficult beast to play live.”

Drummer and producer Mark Roberts says of the accompanying video, “The video was shot super quick, like 30 minutes. We’ve long talked about making something that “breaks the fourth wall”.

Sounds pretty pretentious, but the nature of shooting a performance video that everyone knows isn’t a live performance has always felt a bit trite.

“So rather than trying to keep with the illusion we thought it’d be fun – as well as fitting our budget and time – to just embrace the process from both sides, leaving in equipment, stuff that “should” be out of frame, even camera operators. It also worked well with this song’s story, in a way a metaphor of striving for some kind of perfection and never reaching it, the incidental aspects that are “wrong” are still there…”

Check out the video below.

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