Ian: Your new album, ‘Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin’ just landed on May 29th, what themes or emotions were driving the writing process this time around?
Kitty: The writing came from a shift in headspace more than a fixed concept. With our previous record, Bloodsuckers, everything was written very close to a period of acute grief, so that record had this immediate, nightmarish horror underpinning everything on it. In my mind there’s a time before that grief, and a time afterwards. It caused a fracture point where nothing is the same, I feel differently about everything. But each day that’s passed has allowed me to gain perspective on this new reality, to see some positivity and to grow new life from the soil of that time. ‘Let death bloom with life’, is a key line for me from the song The Beast on the record, it sums up my sense of sadness, reflection, but also of hope.
Jon: The themes weren’t pre-decided, they emerged through opening ourselves to write lyrically and musically what felt truest. The emotional through-line ended up being tension between extremes: violence and clarity, darkness and brief light.
Ian: The album title is incredibly striking. What’s the story behind Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin, and what does it represent for the band creatively?
Kitty: To us the ‘God’ we are referring to is anyone who has assumed power over you, be it a politician, an employer, a family member or even just a societal pressure. Usually hidden behind a mask of respectability, these things have real, harmful power.
It came from a lyric in the first single “The Father, The Son & The Holy Beast” and summed up a lot of themes on the album; the dominance of the work hustle capitalist/consumerist culture in Good Boy. The narcissistic controlling partner in The Blood Beat, the warmongering politicians in Gods of War and the people denying your existence in The Ghost.
It shows the evil, dark side of the record, leaving the presence of the hope in the music to come as something to contrast it.
Ian: Your latest single, ”Get Them Out”, feels intense, chaotic, and unapologetic. What inspired the track lyrically and sonically?
Kitty: ”Get Them Out” came from watching someone I care about treat their own thoughts like they were law. That internal bullying voice that gets mistaken for truth. I wanted to write something that interrupts that, not gently, but forcibly, and reminds them they’re not the narrative they’ve been fed by their own head.
It’s also my favourite riff on the record. It just keeps building, like a system overheating but refusing to shut down. There’s no clean release in it, which felt right. It mirrors that agitated mental loop where nothing resolves, it just tightens.
Ian: The video for “Get Them Out” is a clear homage to March of the Pigs by Nine Inch Nails. Why was that particular video such an important reference point for you?
Kitty: The perfect video! To us a video is best when it is one idea, clear and defined, executed well and which either helps tell the story or mood of the song, or just shows a deeper glimpse into the band’s world. March of the Pigs does all of that. It’s electric, clever, messy and raw. Everything NIN are.
Ian: Was recreating the raw energy and aesthetic of the “March of the Pigs” video more about paying tribute to NIN, or did it also reflect the mood of the new album itself?
Kitty: NIN have been a reference point of total excellence for us since we started Saint Agnes. So with an hour to spare at the end of shooting for Good Boy the camera man asked if we wanted to get anything else quickly. We just thought ‘fuck it’, let’s try something. We got him to watch the NIN video, prepped our make-up artist with her cue to run out, rolled tape and it came out perfectly in one go.
Ian: You’ll be appearing at 2000trees Festival this July, what can fans expect from a Saint Agnes festival set in 2026?
Kitty: The set will be mostly songs from the new record. Figuring out how to play the songs live has been a challenge, but we are in our stride now. It’ll be chaotic, focussed, intense, but hopefully joyful too.
Ian: Festivals can be very different from headline shows. Does your approach change when you’re playing something like 2000 Trees compared to your own tours?
Jon: Yes. Headline shows allow for arc and dynamics in a longer form. With a festival you’re not building a long emotional narrative, you’re establishing presence quickly and maintaining it.
Kitty: We generally lean into the heavier, more physical side of the set because that’s what works in that environment.
Ian: You’re also joining Black Veil Brides for a run of shows in June. How excited are you for those dates, and how did that tour opportunity come about?
Jon: New booking agent pulling out all the stops basically. We have always been frustrated with how little touring we have done, considering we live for playing. Our previous agents just haven’t had us busy enough. Whereas the new one wants to see us dead!
Kitty: We are incredibly excited. Who wouldn’t be? Its always inspiring the see a band with a rabid fanbase do their thing. I’m anticipating coming away from the tour feeling inspired.
Ian: What are you hoping longtime fans and maybe even new listeners discovering you through the Black Veil Brides tour take away from the new album?
Kitty: That there’s a broader emotional range than people might expect. The aggression is still there, but it isn’t the only language anymore. There’s fragility, there’s restraint, there’s space, there’s hope.
Jon: And that those elements aren’t separate, they’re interconnected. The album is about those states existing side by side, not replacing each other.
Ian: For anyone coming to see you live with Black Veil Brides this summer, what kind of atmosphere and experience are Saint Agnes aiming to bring to the stage?
Kitty: Something direct and unfiltered. Not overly constructed in the moment. We want it to feel present, like it’s happening right in front of you rather than being recreated. My goal at every show is to genuinely engage with the music internally and just allow whatever happens to happen.
Jon: A lot of our live show is about removing separation, between band members, between audience and stage, between sound and physical feeling. Make it feel immediate and unavoidable.
Catch Saint Agnes here live.
June 14 – Brighton, Concorde 2 (with BVBs)
June 16 – Liverpool, Arts Club Theatre (with BVBs)
June 17 – London, The Dome (with BVBs)