Fontaines D.C. announce second studio album A Hero's Death

Fontaines D.C. have announced their second album, to be released just over a year after their debut.

The Dublin post-punk band will released A Hero's Death on July 31, with the title track available now. The music video to the lead single has also been released and features Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillen.

A Hero's Death is the follow-up to 2019's Dogrel, which peaked at Number 4 on the Official Irish Albums Chart and was the biggest vinyl album of last year by an Irish group. Dogrel was also nominated for the 2019 RTÉ Choice Music Prize.

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Fontaines D.C. previously revealed that the record would be inspired by the Beach Boys, and in a new statement released today, the group said the collection is "a necessary reaction to assure ourselves we will always be the band we set out to be."

Singer Grian Chatten said of A Hero's Death: "The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up Dogrel. 

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Our New album 'A Hero's Death' will be out 31st July. Our new single, also titled 'A Hero's Death' is out now. Pre-order or listen now from here https://t.co/aToYTTbYkV pic.twitter.com/tvMcAytwUu

— Fontaines DC (@fontainesdublin) May 5, 2020

"But more broadly it’s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings," he concluded.

A Hero's Tale is available to pre-order on regular, stormy blue, and deluxe edition vinyl.

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