This week, to celebrate the release of their mega 2025 single Gifted Every Strength, we’re thrilled to have the mighty Loathe back on the cover of Kerrang! to unpack their next chapter.
Of course, we had to ask the Liverpool metal titans why there was such a delay following 2020 breakout album I Let It In And It Took Everything, and 2021’s The Things They Believe instrumental LP (bar Dimorphous Display and the two different versions of Is It Really You? in 2022, of course).
Vocalist Kadeem France laughed that it was just “Life, really!” that got in the way, while bassist Feisal El-Khazragi hinted that it took them a second to find themselves again after the incredible success of the last few years.
“The fact is that we were changing as people so much, and that was changing our tastes,” Feisal says. “It’s taken a while for the dust to settle within our tastes and to land on something that we felt comfortable with, that we can put out and present as a band.”
Speaking about returning with Gifted Every Strength, guitarist/vocalist Erik Bickerstaffe enthuses that it’s “collectively one of our favourite songs that we’ve ever done. It’s like an underground cult classic among our friends. Four to five years it’s been in the works. I would say this is the most eclectic mixture of our collective four brains when it comes to the music we like and what we want out of the band that we’ve put forward thus far. Even though I don’t think it’s that crazy of a song, I think it’s our craziest song so far.”
Read the full interview here.
