Veteran Aussie rocker Hoodoo Gurus unveils new song 'World of Pain'

Hoodoo Gurus are marking their 40th year as a band with a forthcoming studio album (as yet untitled and scheduled for release later in 2021).

The new single, “World of Pain,” is out now. Watch the video here:

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Speaking about the song, Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner says: “‘World Of Pain’ details the misadventures of a night on the town, beginning with a drunken altercation with another punter (“Your fist smashes my face/Chairs fly all over the place/What a sorry sight”) and concludes with our hapless narrator waking up in bed fully dressed, in the throes of a hangover, all the while trying to remember where he last saw his cellphone. That’s a world of pain indeed. Mind you, this is a fictional story, you understand.”

The long-awaited album is the band's first in more than a decade (the longest interval between Hoodoo Gurus albums in their history) and comes in tandem with a return to the concert stage including rare U.S. dates.

As Faulkner explains: “The last 12 months have been frustrating and nerve-racking for everyone, but for the Hoodoo Gurus this dark cloud has had a silver lining. Forced to rely on ourselves instead of the outside world for validation, there has been a creative rebirth within the band that has resulted in a string of singles and a new album. Most important of all, the musical bonds between the four of us have never been stronger. When the discussions are all about which songs we’re sad about having to leave off the record, that’s a damn good sign. I’m tellin’ ya, folks, we’ve got a real spring in our step right now.”

The event-filled calendar for Hoodoo Gurus in 2021 comes after the release of three tracks in the last 18 months. “Answered Prayers” emerged in late 2019, followed by “Hung Out to Dry” in July 2020 and “Get Out of Dodge” in October of last year.

Since their formation in 1981, Hoodoo Gurus earned nine ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Top 20 albums, nine ARIA Top 40 singles, and a host of multi-platinum albums. The Melbourne power pop band first gained international attention via the 1985 hit “I Want You Back” from the album Stone-Age Romeos and continued with “Bittersweet.” Excluding a 1998-2003 breakup, the guys released albums regularly through 2010 before embarking on a decade-long hiatus. 

In 2007, the group was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Two years earlier, a cross-section of the Australian music community paid the band the ultimate homage by lovingly producing a tribute album of Gurus covers entitled Stoneage Cameos.

Artists such as Steve Van Zandt, Manic Street Preachers, Courtney Love and others have all cited the band's influence in the past.

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