The video for Cut Short’s new single “Unrequited” was filmed in the Liverpool room where the Titanic was sold. The band releases the track on May 1st, and the choice of setting is doing more than aesthetic work โ it ties directly to how the four-piece thinks about their hometown, and how Liverpool itself feeds into what they write.
Cut Short have been around long enough to share stages with Wargasm UK, Dream State, and Heart Of A Coward, and have picked up coverage from BBC Radio 1, Metal Hammer, Kerrang, and Rock Sound across previous releases. Their sound sits across hardcore, metalcore, and progressive metal โ heavy, but not married to any one of those tags.
“Unrequited” pushes that further: it’s the most melodic thing they’ve put out, with cleaner guitar tones and more clean singing than they’ve leaned on before.
The track itself is about the end of a relationship. “‘Unrequited‘ explores the topic of loss at the end of relationships,” the band say. “The lyrics reflect on one’s own actions and emotions during, and after a relationship and the struggles faced afterwards. How do you continue when your life has been changed and find hope again in the midst of grief?”
That question โ how to keep going through grief โ is what makes the Titanic room more than a backdrop. Liverpool, by the band’s account, was once one of the world’s biggest ports, a hub for industry and trans-Atlantic trade, and is still covered in the architecture of that period. A long stretch of managed decline left many of those buildings unmaintained โ what the band calls “deceased monuments to a loss of an optimistic time of excess.” Unemployment, crime, and substance abuse sit underneath the historical surface.
The band draws the parallel directly: the same question “Unrequited” asks about a person โ how to carry on after loss โ applies to a city watching its industrial identity recede. The room where the Titanic was once sold, a marker of Liverpool as a titan of industry, sits in a place now facing mass unemployment.
“Unrequited” arrives during a faster release cycle than the band has worked at before. Cut Short say the increased pace has pushed them to develop their songwriting more openly โ exploring melodic ideas, pulling cleaner tones into the mix, doing more with clean vocals.
Mental health, love, and grief have been central themes across their catalogue; this one keeps that thread but with more space in the arrangement.
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