One Step Closer Announce “Zero” Album & Share Two New Tracks “Blue Hour” & “Was It Ever Enough?”

One Step Closer have returned with the announcement of their new full length, Zero, that will arrive on February 19th via Run For Cover Records, to celebrate, the band have shared not one, but two new tracks from the upcoming album, Blue Hour and Was It Ever Enough?, that can be streamed here. When you find yourself at a One Step Closer show, the possibilities are endless and the only thing you know for sure is that the band will be leaving it all on stage, pouring their guts out through some of the most emotionally-charged hardcore imaginable, regardless of whatever freewheeling chaos is happening around them. Zero captures that core spirit of the band, an uncrushable drive to create moments, to feel all of the bad and the good, to take the hard times and turn them into something cathartic, to not just let life pass by unnoticed.

This ethos is clearer than ever on lead singles Blue Hour and Was It Ever Enough?, along with their connected music videos both directed by the band. Blue Hour begins at dusk, it’s the boldest sonic step in One Step Closer‘s career so far and it explodes into a raucous climax as the band plays on a homemade skate ramp with friends providing DIY pyrotechnics in the form of fireworks and lighter + aerosol can combinations. It’s the perfect mix of “do not try this at home” insanity and hyper earnest emotionality that One Step Closer excel at. Then the sun rises with Was It Ever Enough? that kicks off with circle-pit pacing and jagged guitar riffs that eventually break down into a groovy, sing-along outro in classic One Step Closer fashion.