Better Lovers’ New Song “Love as an Act of Rebellion”

Better Lovers have released the new song and video “Love as an Act of Rebellion,” the final taste of the band’s new album Highly Irresponsible before its release on Friday (October 25th).

The song is the closing track on the album and in the words of frontman Greg Puciato, “runs the gamut emotionally.” The first portion of the track sees the band in frenetic metalcore mode, delivering a blitz of fast thrash and breakdowns — maybe the most manic two-minute stretch of any Better Lovers song we’ve heard yet. But then things calm down, ending in a “place of uneasy acceptance,” as Puciato put it.

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“This song has become one of my personal top three or four on the record,” he said. “I knew it was the final song in the tracklisting as soon as I heard the instrumental. … Extremely satisfying emotionally and stylistically to write vocals to this one.”

Guitarist Jordan Buckley preferred to use a food analogy: “Here’s one more appetizer before the Highly Irresponsible main course is served this Friday. Some crispy green beans before your Buddha’s Fest. A blooming onion before your slow roasted prime rib. Unlimited soup and salad before your Tour of Italy.”

Added Puciato: “To stick with Jordan’s food analogies, to me this is a full course meal in one song. If I had to show people one song off of the record and one song only, I think this would be the one.”

The Anthony Altamura-directed video is also a cut above, taking the Highly Irresponsible album title quite literally. Here, the band perform among a sideshow of highly irresponsible freaks including a woman who self immolates, a circus strongman who gorges himself on cheeseballs, and a guy who straps dynamite to his head.

Better Lovers are comprised of Puciato (ex-Dillinger Escape Plan), along with three former members of Every Time I Die (Buckley, Clayton “Goose” Holyoak, Stephen Micciche) and Fit for an Autopsy’s Will Putney.

The band is set to support the new album with a Fall North American tour that kicks off November 3rd in Asheville, North Carolina. The trek runs through mid-December, and you can get tickets here.

Watch the video for “Love as an Act of Rebellion” below.