At The Drive In has unleashed Hostage Stamps, the third single from the highly anticipated new album in • ter a • li • a, out May 5th on Rise Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia. 

Pre-order in • ter a • li • a here.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala describes the song as “like walking through the hallway in some war-torn ghetto and reading the writing on the wall. When you hear things like, ‘Raise your nithing pole,’ I don’t think anyone will know what that is right away, but when you look it up, it’s this curse. We are going to be victorious. Here’s the fucking head on the stake in front of our army. We’re coming back. It’s reading the writing on the wall. It’s going and keeping your ear to the ground and listening to the heartbeat of young people.”

Expanding on that theme, the band has unveiled an ominous new video directed by Rob Shaw and Damon Locks (who also designed the characters and set) to accompany the single’s release. Using a mix of stop-motion as well as digital animation, the video depicts faceless militaristic figures holding a man captive, as billboards bearing ominous messages flash in and out of view. The final scene is an eruption of chaos as the prisoner sets off an explosion. 

At The Drive In is Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Paul Hinojos,Tony Hajjar and Keeley Davis.

in • ter a • li • a TRACKLISTING:

01. No Wolf Like The Present

02. Continuum

03. Tilting At The Univendor

04. Governed By Contagions

05. Pendulum In A Peasant Dress

06. Incurably Innocent

07. Call Broken Arrow

08. Holtzclaw

09. Torrentially Cutshaw

10. Ghost-Tape No.9

11. Hostage Stamps