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Manic Street Preachers have unveiled the brilliant new video for their latest single 'Futurology', as well as teasing that they may be marking the 20th anniversary of their seminal 1994 album The Holy Bible.
'Futurology' is the opening track from the band's recent incredible album of the same name, with the video carrying the same forward-thinking sense of motion that makes the album so striking.
Another collaboration with BAFTA-winning director, the band describe the video as "a frenetic, kinetic stream of urban consciousness".
The track will be released on 14 September, backed by B-sides ‘Antisocialmanifesto’ and ‘Kodawari’ plus a remix of the single by R.Seiliog.
Watch the video for 'Futurology' below
"This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Manics' mid 90s masterpiece, The Holy Bible," said the band in a statement. "We'll be announcing some of the other very special ways in which we'll be marking the occasion in the coming weeks and months."
This is really good news.
Speaking to Gigwise about the album, frontman James Dean Bradfield said: "We actually feel the looming presence of 20th anniversary of The Holy Bible, I think we feel it quite a lot. We're a bit scared of it really. If we were ever a band who felt like the past defined us too much, and that our past contained too much baggage for us to haul around, I think we'd be finished. We are constantly asked about our past because so much has happened, and naturally we're on our 12th album. If you're so scared of the past like that, it's just game over."
He continued: "If you say 'that's it, I'm never playing that song again' and think there's some kind of Brownie points to be won by making that stance, then that's just sad. "If you're defined by something you've done that you think is awful, then you just end up making wrong decisions all over the place. There are obviously moments like 'The Love Of Richard Nixon' that are not hard to stand by, but hard to see why we released it as the first single for our album. More often than not, we still get some kind of power and rush because we were so obsessed and in the moment when we created it.
"We've never stopped making records so we don't really need to do that Royal Festival Hall circuit. If we do it, I think we'll do it with the confidence that the active part of the band is still there, and making records."
Meanwhile, Manic Street Preachers will be playing V Festival this weekend. For tickets and more information, click here.
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