Hawthorne Heights Announce New EP 'Lost Lights', Release New Single "The Storm"

Hawthorne Heights has announced that they will be releasing their forthcoming EP, Lost Lights, on September 8th, 2023 via Pure Noise Records. Along with the announcement, the band has unveiled the EP’s first new single and music video, titled “The Storm”.

In a press release announcing the EP and new single, vocalist JT Woodruff stated the following about the meaning behind “The Storm”:

"The Storm was written in the middle of the night, deep in the throes of a worldwide shutdown, as I locked myself in a crimson red cabin in rural Ohio.

I needed to withdraw from the noise, in a world where everything was falling apart.  No internet.  No cable.  No cell phone service.  You truly have to be prepared for that type of silence.  If you aren't comfortable inside your own head, the silence can swallow you whole.  I welcomed it.  I let the calm and quiet slowly drag me under.  The only sound I could hear was the gentle roar of a creek that was behind the cabin, knifing through the desperate forest that I was purposefully lost in.  It came to me as I was staring into the fire that was raging in an old timey, wood burning hearth.  I tossed another log into it, and noticed how quickly it turned to embers, and how long it took for the embers to smoulder from orange to black.  Within that darkest black, I saw what seemed to me like a bright future.  I felt myself letting go of things that I didn't realise that I was hanging on to, and I immediately felt relief. I realiSed that I needed to set a fire inside of myself, and burn it down.  I imagined what it would be like to stand on the ridge that was overlooking the cabin, and see the most beautiful fire that my eyes could register.  The deepest orange of a thousand halloweens.  The war at home is neverending."

The band is currently on the road with their “Is For Lovers” Festival, which is slated to continue on July 29th in Manteo, NC, along with a run of “Emo Orchestra” tour dates set to kick off this fall which will include a stop at Oakland’s Fox Theater. For more information on upcoming dates, click here. You can click here to pre-order the EP, and you can view the video for “The Storm” below.

Main Photo: JT Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights performing in Mountain View, CA, August 2017 // Main Photo Credit: Jared Stossel for Shameless SF