ORBIT CULTURE shares video for “Bloodhound”
03-10-2025
Right before their new album, “Death Above Life”, is out, Sweden’s ORBIT CULTURE are releasing “Bloodhound”. The nightmarish, horror movie influenced video is made by their longtime partners Riivata Visuals.
Watch “Bloodhound” below.
The band comments: “’Bloodhound’ is probably the angriest song we’ve written to date. We’ve always been somewhat reluctant to use explicit language in our music — maybe out of habit, maybe out of respect, I honestly don’t know. But when that opening riff came to life, it just had this raw, primal energy that demanded something more. The song sounded furious from the start, and to match that intensity, we knew it was time to break our own rules and let the anger speak freely.
The lyrics came together faster than almost anything we’ve done before. It was like this outburst — a childlike hammering of aggression onto the page. Usually, we try to keep ourselves in check, to polish things a bit. But this track is the 1% of the time where we didn’t. Where we couldn’t.
‘Bloodhound’ is about anger — at people, at situations, at an industry that often exploits the very people trying to make it within it. It’s about the cycle of revenge, the moments of acceptance, and then the anger flaring up again because nothing really changes. This song is about reclaiming your voice, your power, your worth. It’s about calling out the bloodsuckers, the manipulators — and making sure they don’t get to take from you anymore.”
Watch the previously released title track “Death Above Life”, and “The Tales Of War”, also directed by Riivata Visuals, below.
“The album represents change, a new beginning,” says ORBIT CULTURE guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Niklas Karlsson. “It brings up a lot of good and bad emotions but it’s a big change for the better. It feels like a rebirth.”
The band continues: “Lyrically, it reflects a choice: When faced with the idea of continuing down a path surrounded by the wrong people, we sometimes know that we have to cut ties. It is not literally about choosing death but walking away from what is holding us back. ‘Death Above Life’ is about letting go of what no longer fits to make space for something real. It will see the light of day for the very first time at [U.K.’s] Download festival.”
“Death Above Life” track listing:
01. Inferna
02. Bloodhound
03. Inside The Waves
04. The Tales Of War
05. Hydra
06. Nerve
07. Death Above Life
08. The Storm
09. Neural Collapse
10. The Path I Walk
Catch ORBIT CULTURE on their “Death Above Life”-tour with Gaerea and Atlas in support:
21.10.25 (DE) Hamburg – Markthalle
22.10.25 (DE) Berlin – Columbia Theater
24.10.25 (PL) Warsaw – Proxima
25.10.25 (PL) Krakow – Kwadrat
26.10.25 (DE) Dresden – Parkhotel
27.10.25 (CZ) Prague – ROXY
28.10.25 (AT) Vienna – Simm City
29.10.25 (DE) Munich – Backstage Werk
31.10.25 (CH) Zürich – Komplex 457
01.11.25 (DE) Frankfurt – Batschkapp
02.11.25 (DE) Cologne – Carlswerk Victoria
04.11.25 (BE) Antwerp – Trix
05.11.25 (FR) Lille – Splendid
06.11.25 (FR) Paris – Bataclan
08.11.25 (UK) Manchester – Damnation Festival
10.11.25 (UK) Newcastle – NX
11.11.25 (UK) Glasgow – SWG3
12.11.25 (UK) Leeds – Stylus
14.11.25 (UK) Wolverhampton – KK Steel Mill
15.11.25 (UK) Bristol – Electric Bristol
16.11.25 (UK) London – Electric Ballroom
19.11.25 (NL) Eindhoven – Effenaar
21.11.25 (SE) Malmö – Slagthuset
22.11.25 (SE) Gothenburg – Film Studios
24.11.25 (FIN) Helsinki – House Of Culture
26.11.25 (SE) Stockholm – Fallan
27.11.25 (NO) Oslo – Rockefeller
28.11.25 (SE) Karlstad – Nöjesfabriken
29.11.25 (DK) Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
30.11.25 (DK) Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
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