Denver hardcore punks Candy Apple have announced their sophomore album, Comatose, due May 17 via Convulse Records (pre-order). The album was recorded by Jack Oberkirsch and then mixed & mastered by Will Killingsworth, and Destiny Bond‘s Cloe Madonna Janzen appears on opening track “Paralyzed.” That song and the next two tracks (“Pull the Plug” and “Heaven’s Gate) are out now, and all three of them also feature in a 25-minute short film called Total Control, which is also out now. The band says:

We are all film lovers. After completing our last music video, “I Don’t Wanna Talk About It”, which was directed by Cain Cox, we wanted to go all in on creating a longer-form narrative film that still emphasized the band’s music and vision. The result is TOTAL CONTROL, a short film also directed by Cain Cox, that expands upon the themes and narrative we were only able to scratch the surface of in our first video. This film, which concludes at just under 30 minutes, explores themes of choice, consequence, and self-control. Inspired by grindhouse, horror, and slasher movies of the 1970s and 1980s, the film strikes a balance between disgusting, gross-out horror and slapstick humor with an array of set design and special effects that were all created in-house by the band and director Cain Cox.

Check out all three tracks and the short film below.

Tracklist
1. Paralyzed
2. Pull The Plug
3. Heaven’s Gate
4. Afraid of Myself
5. Dying Artist, Dead Format
6. Amputate
7. Fractured
8. Self-Made American Man
9. Coma / Coda