Mount Gambier alternative rock/metal band Higgs Field is back in a big way with a new single ‘Us Forever’.

The four-piece band formed five years ago and comprises Bradley Frost on drums, Kyle Gleed playing bass and singer/guitarists Liam Brown and Dee Leggett.

Us Forever is a song that dives deeply into the psyche of a killer who becomes profoundly infatuated with someone else, ‘seeking connection in the most psychotic way’.

Mr Brown described the new hit as ‘obsessive, dangerous, controlling and scary’.

“It’s all about control to an extreme extent,” he said.

“There’s a bit of a hidden message behind it where it’s like a bit of a warning, like this is not a healthy relationship, this is not a healthy style of obsession, it’s not a healthy love.

“Us Forever is like these serial killers and these murderers exist but not everyone’s like that.”

Mr Brown said ‘Us Forever’ was a song he originally wrote at 5am after coming off nightshift.

“I sort of just started strumming some chords together and then literally hit record on my phone to see what I could come up with,” he said.

“I ended up just pulling up some old lyrics that I wrote down and ended up sort of smashing the riff mixed together with the lyrics that I wrote ages ago just to see if they worked and they did.

“It’s a different sound to how it originally started but I think that’s what makes it great is everyone brings in their own elements of what they do to make the song I think a bit better and a bit heavier and a bit cooler.

“It’s like here’s the song and then everyone brings their own sort of thing to it which improves the song, always.”

Mr Brown said Higgs Field’s sound was inspired from some of their favourite bands including Faith No More, Porcupine Tree, Tool and Bring Me The Horizon.

“I suppose when we first started we really had a few different bands in mind that we loved,” he said.

“They inspired us to sort of do what we’re doing now.

“One thing all these bands have in common is their first album is not the same as their second and that is not the same as their third.

“I think like as progressive music, the idea is that you’re adding different elements of pop, jazz, punk, rock, metal, all that sort of stuff into one thing and that’s where I think we’re continuing down that route.

“We’re still writing heavy music and we’re still writing everything in between.

“That’s the progression of it, adding those different elements all into one.”

Mr Brown said the music group’s latest single was a different sound to their debut album ‘Paracusia’ released in 2021.

“It’s kind of conspiracy based, the whole EP but it’s not necessarily stuff that we believe in, it’s stuff that other people really believe in,” he said.

“The key to anything fantastical is always mystery, so we always go with that mysterious route and try and put ourselves in objectiveness so we’re objective with what the beliefs are, but those beliefs do exist.

“We got a 9.5 out of 10 on Heavy Magazine and that’s one of Australia’s biggest online music publications, so we got the front cover for that as well with that release.

“Even though [Us Forever] is very different to conspiracy theories, I think it’s keeping with that same theme of progression as well as adding new elements to it.”

Mr Brown said the group’s second album was currently in the works.

“This album has to do with that extreme control and shining a light on that,” he said.

“All these songs are based on absolute real-life events that happened that are evil.

“The world is full of some fantastic, beautiful creative things and it’s also full of really dark disturbing things and it’s like in our way shining a light on the really dark evil stuff and using that as positive messaging.”

The band has played gigs from all around the South East to Adelaide, experiencing a big year in 2022 playing at Stone & Dust and The Close 2 Home Festival.

Through such opportunities they have played with some big industry names including Spiderbait, Kingswood and Horror my Friend, as well as Rat Salad and Church Mums.

Mr Brown said Australian alternative rock band Spiderbait was a personal favourite of his.

“Spiderbait is one of my favourite bands of all time, I remember being four or five years old and watching them on RAGE and absolutely falling in love with them,” he said.

“To be able to play with them, that was a big thing for me personally.

“The more bands of that calibre that we get to play with, that’s what the whole goal is and on top of that to create art that we love and music that we love.”

Mr Brown said whether people loved or hated their music, they’re still going to produce their unique sound.

“Hanging out together … being creative, having a good laugh together that’s what’s kept the band going throughout COVID19, throughout this, that and the other,” he said.

“It really, really helped the band sort of get that attitude of ‘we do not care what people think of this’.

“I do not think we’re doing anything special it’s just that some people like what we do, and other people hate it and people that like what we do tend to really get behind it.

“We’re lucky as it is, we’re four very average people we all work jobs, we’re all just your carpenters, therapeutic support workers, pizza girls and job finding agency [workers].

“We’re just very regular people so to even get a local station to play our music, that’s a bit of a hype for us and to be asked to play certain gigs, we’re stoked with that.”

Mr Brown said the community support had been ‘pivotal’ in what Higgs Field does.

“Every time we have played a gig, there’s over 100 people there minimum and there’s always people there wearing our shirts and throwing support, singing the songs back to us which is an unbelievable feeling,” he said.

“You start seeing the same faces all the time at the shows and you start getting people that really, really love it.

“That’s the main support we get, is locals going to our shows and really getting behind what we do and some of them really love it which we’re ecstatic about.

“The community support’s pivotal but at the same time if we had three listeners, we would still be releasing the same sort of music.

“The money that we make from all of that- the gigs, the streams, everything – that just goes back into the band.”

Mr Brown said while the band has played on some of the biggest rock and radio stations in the world they are urging the Australian music scene to catch up with the genre.

“Every listen helps, every share helps, every follow helps, every attendee at a gig, that all helps and what that helps with is us playing with some of the bigger bands that we want to play with,” he said.

“Australia’s got to sort of keep up with what the US are doing and in the US, their radio stations are sort of getting behind us flat out.

“Really that’s where we want to hit, we want to hit home because that’s where we live and it’s the people that we love.

“If people have time jump on [Triple J] Unearthed and give it a review, that would mean the world to us.

“The more we hear about what people think about it – whether they love it or hate it – the better.”

Us Forever is available now on all streaming services.