Hear …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead’s New Single “A Million Random Digits”

October 14th, 2014

Nina Corcoran

It’s been a while since we’ve gotten news from rock act …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, but the band have been hard at work. Their newest record, IX, drops October 20 (pre-orders ongoing here). To celebrate the upcoming release, they’re streaming single “A Million Random Digits” now on Line of Best Fit.

The song is a quick three minutes with primal drums making way for dark guitar riffs. If they’re saying anything, it’s that they’re coming back with teeth growling, per usual. According to the band, the track title comes from a stolen book and the lyrics were inspired by Vikings. Just the usual stuff for Trail of Dead. Read their full quote about the track below:

“A Million Random Digits – the title stolen from a book I found on one of those shelves in a guest house where backpackers are supposed to leave a book when they take one. Fortunately I’m not a backpacker so I’m not obligated to leave anything if I take one – which is also how I got a copy of Balthazar Gracian’s Art of Worldly Wisdom (in it Gracian recommends allowing yourself one vice, and mine is stealing useful things like books). The lyrics were inspired by the Viking series I’d recently watched on the History Channel -actually I watched a pirated copy (yet another vice) because we don’t get the History Channel out here. I felt a sense of connection to the idea of the Northmen being away from family while going a-raiding, similar to being away from family while working on a record – you end up killing about the same amount of people as well.”

Give it a listen below (via Line of Best Fit):