Hundred Reasons tackle tragedy on new album

Hundred Reasons return with the release of their fourth studio album Quick The Word, Sharp The Action, and as frontman Colin Doran tells Kerrang!, the album was recorded during the bleakest period in the band's history.

"It was inspired by a lot of bad stuff that's happened in the last few years," admits Doran. "We lost some very close friends and I didn't really deal with it on the last album [2006's Kill Your Own]. One song, Sick Little Masquerade, is about one of our friends' funerals where a bunch of idiots turned up. They were absolute cock-ends to her when she was alive, so it addresses the hypocrisy of how death brings out the worst in people and things like that."

The album marks a change in direction that's characterised the post-hardcore sound of their previous three albums.

"We consciously went in a bit of a different direction because we don't want to keep making the same album over and over again," says Doran. "I think Kill Your Own was the best sort of straight rock record we were gonna make. There's a lot of different things on there that you probably wouldn't have heard from us - or many other people for that matter."

Quick The Word, Sharp The Action will be released on October 15 through V2.