New Australian metalcore band, Ten Thousand Crows released their debut single accompanied by it’s music video called ‘The Hanged Man‘ as the first of the Macabre Arcana Project, a series of five Tarot card inspired singles. Having thought they’d never make music again, former Skyon bandmates were struck by inspiration after lockdown due to COVID-19 with overwhelming emotions caused by the pandemic.

With George Mackenzie, on vocals and production, and Jordan Hurt, on guitar, the pair wrote The Hanged Man reflecting on the pandemic with inspirations from bands such as Code Orange, Justice for the Damned and Knocked Loose. Mackenzie commented: “With all the death, uncertainty, anxiety and panic, we decided to channel our fear and frustrations during lockdown into creating a series of singles. The Hanged Man is the first of five releases we will be working on and releasing in real-time called the Macabre Arcana Project.“

“I wanted to capture the feeling of helplessness. The lyrics of the song were written during quarantine and The Hanged Man character to me is a tragic character, an individual who has been let down by society, another statistic, another number. It’s by far the darkest thing I have ever created but I think that’s because it stems from how I was feeling as global events unfolded during quarantine.”

George Mackenzie, vocals

Watch and listen to ‘The Hanged Man’ here.