With less than a month until the release of their sixth studio album Welcome Home, due September 27 via Eleven Seven Music, Hellyeah have unleashed ‘Black Flag Army,’ the fifth and final offering ahead of the album release.

Their eagerly anticipated new album, which features the late Vinnie Paul’s final recordings, will feature 11 tracks driven by their love, loyalty, reverence and respect for their fallen brother, including ‘Black Flag Army’, fiery track ‘333,’ the thunderous U.S radio hit ‘Welcome Home,’ guitar-driven ‘Perfect’ and gritty ‘Oh My God.’

After celebrating the life of their brother and bandmate Vinnie Paul with an emotional sold-out concert in Las Vegas earlier this year, the band toured extensively across the US where they premiered new material from Welcome Home each night, with talks of UK shows on the horizon. They continue to honour their late bandmate by donating proceeds from ticket sales to the American Heart Association, helping to raise early awareness for heart disease. Vinnie’s death had a huge, life-changing impact on Hellyeah who have all now vowed to change their ways to a much healthier lifestyle and aim to resonate that to others.

As they continue to make their signature hard rock for fans old and new, Hellyeah are pushing forward as a strong unit with a brand new release that is personal, poignant and truly memorable, marking the next chapter of journey.

WELCOME HOME TRACKLIST

1. 333

2. Oh My God

3. Welcome Home

4. I'm The One

5. Black Flag Army

6. At Wicks End

7. Perfect

8. Bury You

9. Boy

10. Skyy and Water

11. Irreplaceable

In the Wildwood Tarot deck, the Four of Arrows is adorned with a painting of man face down on the ground. The titular arrows surround him, sticking straight up from the ground but never making contact; a large butterfly hovers above him. The card symbolizes rest – a call to recharge and recovery. This card revealed itself to Great Grandpa’s Pat Goodwin in a reading and the symbolism aptly embodied where he and his fellow bandmates were in their lives.

Following the 2017 release of Plastic Cough, the band were a unit, they lived together, worked together, and toured tirelessly across the country. As tours ended and band members relocated across the US, they found themselves suddenly separated and eventually isolated. The time spent apart wasn’t planned, but it proved to be necessary. It was a chance to gain perspective into their lives, relationships, and creative purpose.

Thus enters Four of Arrows, a creative turn toward introspection and Great Grandpa’s collective result of rest and solitude. Undoubtedly, the 11 songs comprising Four of Arrows are a departure from the playful nods to pizza and zombies on Plastic Cough. The writing and recording process had evolved — less Seattle garage jams and more vulnerable solo songwriting sessions. Most of the songs on Four of Arrows were written in isolation by Patrick and Carrie Goodwin while traveling and living in the Midwest. Though written separately, the songs came to life when the band reunified and began recording with producer Mike Vernon Davis (Modest Mouse, Portugal. The Man) on New Year’s Day in 2019.

The band instantly found common threads between their individual contributions, citing mutual love and admiration for vulnerable and emotionally resonate music. Four of Arrows embraces subtlety and pays close attention to the quiet. From the methodical dirge of ‘Dark Green Water’ into the haunting and howling guitar of ‘Digger’ — Great Grandpa try something new by letting the acoustic guitar and piano lay the foundation for many of the album’s tracks

The songs weave through the pains of familial divisions, partnership, internal and external forgiveness, and the struggles of mental illness. Pat Goodwin describes “Digger” as the emotional pillar of the album. The lyrics allude to the titular tarot cards and set the scene for Four of Arrows — solitude and an exploration of the obsessive, neurotic and even paranoid existential questioning seen in ourselves and the characters in our lives. “Shouldn’t go out in the darkness” repeated over tranquil guitar, serves as the mantra of the song before it erupts into an evocative and tense outro.

Tracklist:

1, “Dark Green Water”

2, “Digger”

3, “English Garden”

4, “Mono no Aware”

5, “Bloom”

6, “Endling”

7, “Rosalie”

8, “Treat Jar”

9, “Human Condition”

10, “Split Up The Kids”

11, “Mostly Here”