WAGE WAR Releases Video For New Single 'Sweet Dreams'

Florida's WAGE WAR — Briton Bond (lead vocals),Cody Quistad (rhythm guitar, clean vocals),Seth Blake (lead guitar),Chris Gaylord (bass) and Stephen Kluesener (drums) — recently released the "It Calls Me By Name" EP via Fearless Records. It was a vicious selection of tracks where the band elected to indulge the more brutal side of its sound. Today, WAGE WAR releases the video for the brand new standalone single "Sweet Dreams". And it continues the recent trajectory.

While WAGE WAR may have titled the new song "Sweet Dreams", it sounds like the soundtrack to your nightmare. And if you are a musical masochist who likes it loud, fast, brutal, and bloodcurdling, this song answers the call. But it's not all bluster and sonic fists of fury. Rather, the band drops melodic vocals smack dab in the middle of the maelstrom to give you a bit of a breather and to make you think. It's an excellent execution of dynamics.

"'Sweet Dreams' is a song about being deceived by the world around you," WAGE WAR explains. "About safety in a sense of blissful ignorance. Sonically, it draws inspiration from all of our previous work over the last 10 years."

Indeed, it combines WAGE WAR's past and present to create something entirely explosive and new.

WAGE WAR will return to U.S. stages for a headline tour this fall, with WE CAME AS ROMANS, VARIALS and CANE HILL as support. The "Emergency Broadcast" tour kicks off October 25 in San Antonio and runs through November 27 in Orlando.

WAGE WAR on tour with WE CAME AS ROMANS, VARIALS and CANE HILL:

Oct. 25 - San Antonio, TX - The Aztec Theatre
Oct. 26 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Oct. 29 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
Oct. 30 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
Oct. 31 - Riverside, CA - Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Nov. 02 - Albuquerque, NM - Revel Entertainment Center
Nov. 03 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom
Nov. 04 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
Nov. 06 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee
Nov. 07 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
Nov. 08 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!
Nov. 10 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
Nov. 11 - Cincinnati, OH - The Andrew J Brady Music Center
Nov. 13 - Wallingford, CT - The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre
Nov. 14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
Nov. 16 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY
Nov. 17 - Buffalo, NY - Buffalo RiverWorks
Nov. 18 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount
Nov. 20 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
Nov. 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
Nov. 22 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
Nov. 24 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works
Nov. 25 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
Nov. 27 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live

Hailing from Florida, WAGE WAR has spent its storied career cultivating a reputation for snarling breakdowns, infectious hooks and its own gripping take on the metalcore realms, with its releases also often lyrically packing a connective punch via themes of mental health, introspection and perseverance. Releasing its debut full-length "Blueprints" in 2015, WAGE WAR has since unleashed five studio albums, including the evolutionary 2024 LP "Stigma". Fluent in creating hybrid heavy creations and no strangers to chart success, including taking out the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for the single "Magnetic", WAGE WAR also dropped an EP, "It Calls Me By Name", a collection of songs shaped by Florida, the swamp and the relentless aggression of nature.