Twelve Foot Ninja take the 'Long Way Home' to deliver new single and gloriously twisted film clip

Ladies and Djentlemen! It’s been a long four years waiting for the next sniff off Australia’s favourite heavy fusion/experimental rock band, but Twelve Foot Ninja are back with the gloriously weird and wonderful, ‘Long Way Home’.

COVID, being the sneaky bitch it is, did create havoc for a large portion of the music industry, but the Twelve Foot Ninja legends have been using the time wisely, recording, filming, and preparing a recockulously (if that is a word) large amount of new music, videos, and other unique TFN carnage ready for their ever-expanding clan!

Oh, they’ve been busier than a cat burying shit on concrete. Busy boys indeed.

The new single, ‘Long Way Home, is a high energy banger (produced by Stevic Mackay and mixed by Forrester Savell) is elevated by a frenetic 12-piece orchestra straight out of a Gotham City car chase. With a heavy rock chorus and calamity themed lyrics around civil war between reality and the internet, it’s an unhinged but calculated concoction. The track was premiered by the US' leading rock radio presenter, Jose Mangin on SiriusXM's Liquid Metal and followed very closely by triple J's The Racket presenter Lochlan Watt!

Stevic Mackay, guitarist and creator of the video game that accompanied the song, said, "We tried to create something that harnessed the power of ACDC with a bend of surrealism, like eating a meat pie through your ear. This song is about the ‘real world’ becoming harder and harder to agree on…I’d rather take the path of resistance, the long way home, than acquiesce to relativism."

In true Ninja fashion, there is a batshit-crazy film clip, BUT punters were made to work for it in the lead up to the official release; they had to complete the band’s platformer video game and find all 12 DynaTAC cell phones (circa 1986) strewn throughout the multi-tiered level to unlock the music video. They just might be the only band in history to do so! In the first 48hrs, the game had over 10,000 plays in 76 countries - quite an achievement in the gaming world for a self-published, first time release!

If you want to do all the hard work, and play a seriously twisted, fun platform game, completing the task and thus being rewarded with the gloriously magnificent, nightmare-inducing film clip, then click here and play the game.

But if you can’t be arsed and just want to watch the film clip (party pooper), then here it is…

With so much more on the horizon for the band in 2021, this is a brand-new dawn for Twelve Foot Ninja. Fans can expect much more insane hijinks, new sounds, and surprising content to delve into.

‘Long Way Home’ is out now on all major streaming platforms. Now we shall sit patiently, like good busy little beavers, and await for the next full instalment of Twelve Foot Ninja glory.