After sixteen years away from releasing a full-length album, COLEPITZ are making their return count. With their upcoming record, The Time Between, arriving October 23rd via High River Records, the band have unveiled “Washed In Red,” a chilling new single that leans into horror-inspired imagery, crushing heaviness, and an unsettling sense of dread.
Following the release of “End of Everything” and “The Living Dead,” the latest track offers another glimpse into the atmosphere surrounding the band’s long-awaited album. According to Rob Korhonen, “Washed In Red” originated in Boston during the early 2000s, co-written with Mark Marenick. A song that once felt overlooked has now been reworked by Ray and Shane into something heavier and meaner, giving the material a renewed intensity that feels perfectly suited to its sinister subject matter.
Lyrically, “Washed In Red” embraces the unsettling simplicity of a horror story. Images of a saw, a boiler room, and the early hours of the morning immediately establish a threatening atmosphere, but the song’s darkness extends beyond its literal imagery. Each line carries the potential for a second interpretation, allowing the horror to exist on both a physical and psychological level. There is something particularly disturbing about the idea that catastrophe doesn’t always arrive as a world-ending event witnessed by everyone. Sometimes, it happens quietly, behind closed doors, while the rest of the world carries on unaware.
That concept gives the track an especially haunting edge. Rather than relying solely on shock value, COLEPITZ tap into the fear of isolation and the possibility that terrible things can happen in places that appear ordinary from the outside. The image of a single house sitting dark while the world continues around it is simple, yet deeply unsettling.
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