SPIRITWORLD – New Single “Western Stars & The Apocalypse” Released

From Las Vegas, Nevada, SpiritWorld presents new single "Western Stars & The Apocalypse."

A thrashing, 2-minute blitz of metallic hardcore, drenched in SpiritWorld's signature Old West occultism, "Western Stars & The Apocalypse" is the band's first new music to be revealed since the release of their acclaimed second album, Deathwestern, in 2022.

The song was engineered and mixed by longtime SpiritWorld producer Sam Pura and mastered by Alberto de Icaza (King Crimson, Clutch).

"I wrote 'Western Stars & The Apocalypse' right after Deathwestern came out, when we got home from touring Europe with Agnostic Front," states SpiritWorld founder/ frontman Stu Folsom. The New York hardcore influence is evident in the blistering song, but Folsom also gives credit to a more unlikely muse: "I was revisiting a lot of Bob Dylan in my bunk on that tour and there is a nod to his song 'Desolation Row' in the lyrics."

Directed by Rob Zombie collaborator Balázs Gróf, the official "Western Stars & The Apocalypse" music video is an animated clip that playfully brings to life SpiritWorld's strange universe, a place where the supernatural horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the Western pulp of Louis L'Amour collide. Gróf's whimsically hellish cartoon features various cosmic beasts, rivers of blood, and Stu Folsom's animated alter ego twerking on a grave.

Folsom enthuses: "I really love Gróf's work and I just turned him loose with the song. It’s a weird, spooky, animated trip through the underworld!"

With "Western Stars & The Apocalypse" now streaming, the world gets its first taste of SpiritWorld's next phase. 2025 promises to be stacked with new action as Folsom carries this enthralling project forward into its next era. When asked about where it is all heading, Folsom replies simply: "Straight to hell, my friend. Straight to hell."