Depeche Mode starts mysterious countdown before new album

Depeche Mode starts mysterious countdown before new album

Memento Mori, Depeche Mode’s next album, arrives on March 17

Depeche Mode announced mysterious countdown on the band’s official website and social media. According to the website NMEpublications may indicate the arrival of the first single from the album memento mori coming soon.

After archiving or deleting all other publications, the post with the countdown is the only one on the band’s Instagram and indicates a seven-day wait. From this, fans speculate that the first song of the Depeche Mode after the death of Andy Fletcher may arrive next Saturday.

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In 2022, dave gahan and martin gore announced that they are going on as a duo, but with no intention of replacing Fletcher – keyboardist and one of the founding members. “We are not going to replace Fletch, there is no reason for that. It would be impossible. there was only one FletchI’m sure of it,” gahan stated. To get onstage without the keyboardist, they work with the multi-instrumentalist. Peter Gordon and the drummer Christian Eignerwho have been active on the tour since the 1990s.

About the name of the next album, dave explained: “The direct translation of memento mori is: ‘Remember that you must die.’ A lot of the songs get to that place of reminding us that the clock is ticking and how we use it in a positive way.” gore was the one who heard a friend’s Latin phrase: “I thought, ‘What a great record name for the songs we’ve already written.'”

Recorded with the presence of andy, memento mori It is scheduled for March 17th.

Source: Rollingstone

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