Actor Vera Farmiga, best known for roles in The Conjuring and Hawkeye, has revealed that she will be sharing a debut album with her metal band The Yagas.
The Academy Award-nominated actor has been involved in the music world for years now, and has got fans talking over the years by covering some of the biggest hits in metal. Back in 2022, she covered both Iron Maiden‘s ‘The Trooper’ and Black Sabbath‘s ‘War Pigs’ at the Rock Academy. The following year she dropped a blistering cover of the Slipknot hit ‘Duality’.
Now, she has shared that a debut album is on the way from herself and her band The Yagas. Titled ‘Midnight Minuet’, the record is set to arrive on April 25, and features 10 songs mixed by Grammy nominee Brian Virtue (Deftones) and mastered by Grammy winner Emily Lazar (Coldplay).
A new preview of the record comes in the form of the recent single ‘Life Of A Widow’, which is out now and tackles themes of loss and overcoming a feeling of isolation.
“The song is aching to feel the presence of a deceased loved one. It’s a soul’s journey of yearning, pleading to crack the unbearable silence of solitude, that Vantablack void, just to hear your love’s voice once again, to feel your love’s touch again,” Farmiga said of the track (via MetalSucks).
“The protagonist in our song wanders through her misery, she navigates through mad midnight moments of throbbing despair. She begs to feel less alone. She demands to feel the presence of her lost love. And she won’t stop wailing until he’s there,” she added.
“It’s about taking those sudden, violent jabs of red-hot grief, feeling pummelled and clobbered by desperation and crying out to the dearly departed for help and reconnection.”
The band’s keyboardist Renn Hawkey – who is also Farmiga’s husband and a member of band Deadsy with Elijah Blue Allman – continued: “Producing ‘Midnight Minuet’ was very cathartic for me. I felt the need to prove to myself that I could make great music outside of Deadsy… This was a very different creative experience for me.”
“‘Midnight Minuet’ just felt different,” he added. The Yagas built a new playground together, made up of our respective life experiences with equal ownership. We are the sum of our parts. When this kind of synergy exists, you grab it, nurture it, and give it a life.”
‘Life Of A Widow’ follows the previously shared singles ‘She’s Walking Down’ and ‘The Crying Room’, which also feature on the album. Check out the latest single above, and find the LP’s tracklist below.
The ‘Midnight Minuet’ tracklist is:
1. ‘The Crying Room’
2. ‘I Am’
3. ‘Life Of A Widow’
4. ‘Anhedonia’
5. ‘Pendulum’
6. ‘Charade’
7. ‘Bridle’
8. ‘Pullover’
9. ‘She’s Walking Down’
10. ‘Midnight Minuet’
The band made their live debut earlier this month, and are set to take to the stage later this week for a show at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. Taking place on Saturday (April 5), the gig comes as part of the ‘Casa Gogol Records Presents: New New York’ event.
As for when to next see Vera Farmiga on the big screen, the actor is set to feature in the upcoming Conjuring film, which Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema confirmed last year will mark the last in the franchise.
The as-yet-untiled film is due to arrive on September 05, 2025, and will be the final outing for Patrick Wilson‘s and Farmiga’s portrayal of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
