Metal band Pelican have released a new song featuring vocals from their latest EP The Cliff, which is out February 24th, 2015.

Metal band Pelican have released a new song “The Cliff,” featuring vocals, for the second time in the band’s history.

Having recently released their latest album 2013’s Forever Becoming, the band is now releasing EP The Cliff, featuring a vocal-driven version of “The Cliff,” off of Forever Becoming, a remix of “The Cliff” from Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) and Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer of ISIS/Palms.

Pelican is known for its purely instrumental music, but for the second time in the band’s history, they have released a song with vocals. The voice comes from Allen Epley (Shiner, The Life and Times), who was also featured on Pelican’s 2009 album What We All Come To Need in the song “Final Breath.”

The band’s current lineup includes founding members Trevor de Brauw on guitar, Bryan Herweg on bass, Larry Herweg on drums, and Dallas Thomas on guitar since 2012, after guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec amicably left the band.

Pelican’s latest album Forever Becoming was the first without Schroeder-Lebec, and that created an uneasiness in the recording of the new album, de Brauw told Spin, “The majority of the record is a lot darker, depressive, and angry,” he says. “It was a nervous headspace, but also really exciting. It was like starting a new relationship — those nerves when you’re just beginning something. We had lost that sense of spark.”

The album did well critically, scoring number six on our Top 40 Albums of 2013. The band’s new EP, The Cliff, brings new versions of the song plus a version with vocals and will be out February 24th on 12 inch vinyl and digital formats.

The EP will be released February 24th, 2015 via Southern Lord.