Don Broco’s new album ‘Nightmare Tripping’ is out now, and the band have celebrated by sharing a video for one of its many highlights.
That is ‘True Believers’, an absolute behemoth of a track that finds the band at their most bludgeoning and belligerent. Featuring a guest vocal from Architects’ Sam Carter, it is a riff-fueled look at the worrying rise in far-right ideology being accepted like it’s normal rather than shunned and mocked. There’s a reason the song is as angry as it is, as the band are clearly furious that such behaviour and thinking have been allowed to seep back into everyday life.
And the video, showing off brainwashing and cohesion in their most violent forms, brings that anger to the forefront.
Vocalist Rob Damiani had this to say about it all:
“We started writing this song back in 2024 during the Southport Riots. At the same time, the Olympics were on, and flicking between them and the news was an alarming contrast between celebratory British patriotism and violent English nationalism. Over the last few years, it’s been impossible to avoid the rise of the far-right across Europe and the United States, seeing politicians and people on the streets alike using the Nazi salute freely without consequence, and genocide apologists’ ideas embraced in the mainstream media. This song is about the brainwashing that’s led to this, to question what we’ve been brought up believing and the narratives that have been reinforced for generations,” shares Damiani.
Adding, “As soon as the initial ideas were fleshed out I wanted Sam on this track. We’ve been fans of Architects for a long time and the energy and aggression he brings to his vocals are unmatched. As a human being of planet earth he’s used his talents again and again to stand up for what’s right so to collaborate on this song with him was very special.”
The band are due to take the album on the road later this year. Here are the recently announced tour dates.
SEPTEMBER
28 – LINCOLN Engine Shed
29 – SHEFFIELD Octagon
OCTOBER
01 – EDINBURGH Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
02 – MANCHESTER Academy, Manchester
03 – LIVERPOOL Guild of Students
04 – NEWCASTLE City Hall
07 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
10 – NORWICH UEA, Norwich
14 – BRISTOL The Prospect Building
