European tour footage accompanies SECRET RULE’s new single ‘Trip Into My Hell’ in its official live music video. Filmed during the Italian modern metal band’s recent tour with Xandria and Seven Spires, the video follows a song that audiences heard onstage before its release.
The single is available to listen to now and appears on ‘Someone Killed the Pope’, SECRET RULE’s eleventh studio album, due February 5, 2027 through Rockshots Records. Album pre-orders are open.
Vocalist Angela Di Vincenzo explains how those performances shaped the video: “We played this song every night on the European tour before it was even released, and seeing people immediately react to it was amazing. They didn't know the song, but by the end they were already jumping with us. We loved that energy so much that we decided to capture it during the tour and make it part of the official video for the song. I think it's the perfect way to show what ‘Trip Into My Hell’ is really about: something direct, spontaneous and made to be experienced live.”
The track takes a more rock-oriented approach than the heavier arrangements and electronic elements of the preceding singles. Guitar riffs, a driving rhythm section and Di Vincenzo’s melodic vocals lead a stripped-back arrangement built around its chorus.
Guitarist and producer Andy Menario says: “We wanted this track to be very straightforward. No unnecessary layers, just a strong guitar riff, a solid groove and a chorus that hits immediately. It has a much more rock-oriented approach than some of the other songs on the album and hearing it work so naturally in front of a live audience confirmed that we had captured exactly the kind of energy we wanted.”
The lyrics address confronting personal struggles, using fire, smoke and collapsing roads to describe uncertainty and pain. Di Vincenzo adds: “The ‘hell’ in the song is obviously personal. It's that place or situation you know is going to hurt, but sometimes the only choice you have is to go through it. There's something almost liberating in reaching the point where you stop looking for a way around it and just say: okay, I'm going in.”
‘Someone Killed the Pope’ brings together different facets of the band’s modern metal sound. Its twelve-song sequence places ‘Trip Into My Hell’ tenth, with the album’s separate title track appearing second.
- Edge of Control
- Someone Killed the Pope
- Labyrinth
- Bury Them Deep
- Indifference to Brutality
- Forever You
- Phoenix Rising
- Tell Me More
- I’m Still with Me
- Trip Into My Hell
- Empty Instant
- Whispers in the Dark
Founded in Rome in 2014 by Di Vincenzo and guitarist, composer and producer Menario, SECRET RULE combine modern metal with melodies, electronic elements and cinematic arrangements. The band have ten previous studio albums and an extensive international live career.
The current lineup comprises Angela Di Vincenzo on vocals, Andy Menario on guitars and male vocals, Luca Pecchia on bass and backing vocals, and Diego Divizia on drums.
