It's great to see Confess, the Iranian band that fled after being charged with blasphemy in their home country, thriving in their new home country of Norway. We are thrilled to be premiering a new song from the band called "Ransom Note."
The song focuses on frontman Nikan Khosravi's days of exile in Turkey when he was fleeing Iran. “I wrote the lyrics of this song (like most of the lyrics in this album) while I was in Turkey seeking asylum.”, Khosravi explains. “Those days were the darkest period of my life. But as you can hear in the song, I was super determined about what I'm going to do in my future.”
“There are not enough forces in this world to oppress a man forever”, he tells us. “Ransom Note” is the voice of those who refuse to stay submissive: “If people in a society seek unity and want to change their future, nothing can stop them!”
Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani obtained refugee status in Norway in 2018 and have been playing across the country with a new line-up. Confess recently opened for Mayhem at Festspillene i Nord. The single comes off the band's forthcoming album, Revenge At All Costs.
