PREMIERE: Greyface debut 'Underground Star' in live performance video

Hot Press are delighted to host the premiere of 'Underground Star', the raucous, blistering new single from Dublin-based metal outfit Greyface. With stadium-sized gang-vocals, and ferocious, alternative post-industrial nuances, the track is a gritty, high-octane listening experience.

Loosely based on the universal Freudian/Jungian ideas of the inner shadow, the band named themselves 'Greyface' to represent the idea of the inner shadow persona most people tend to ignore, or reject for its undesirability. The group refer to their shadow as their “GREYFACE”, taking these ideas to the stage in theatrical live displays.

The band performs a stylised mix of music branching from hip-hop, to rock/metal, to electronica.

Only their second single, ‘Underground Star' is an anthem that sees the four-piece and their backing vocalists explode onto the scene with industrial-inspired riffs, boasting lyrics layered in irony and self-deprecation.

The fictional character of ‘Underground Star’ personifies the clichéd desires of rock-star celebrity narcissism, critiquing popular culture and humanity's obsessions with violence, sex and self-destruction.

“The Underground Star' is an eclectic mix of insecurity and braggadocio," the band say,"inspired lyrically by the anthems and dramatic niches of Glam metal, and sonically by more groove focused Industrial riffing and rhythm-based playing.

"Conceptually, the character is built from fake confidence. The average front-person of a nothing band, with the spirit and mind-set of an influential arena God.

“The true essence of the group is to experiment and flirt with different musical ideas as one consistent unit," they continue.

Watch the video below.