Chaos Space Marine

It is track two at 3:36, released on October 12, 2021 with the album announcement. Wikipedia's song page oddly credits the producer Sergio Maschetzko with songwriting alongside the band, and we could not verify a writer, so none is named here. Wood said it was the best song they had ever written and that they threw in every idea anyone had, like throwing all the shit at the wall and letting everything stick (to NME). The title refers to Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine miniatures; critics read the lyrics as a surreal narrator contemplating leaving London for New York and the high seas, with quotations from The Smiths and the Bible. Those are critics' readings, not band statements. Uncut compared the opening to Roxy Music's "Re-Make/Re-Model" and the chorus to Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the band performs a synchronized leg kick after a pause in the first chorus.

Reception was mixed against an overwhelmingly positive album: Loud and Quiet called it a low point and Rolling Stone's Niall Doherty likened it to a high school band trying to show off for their new cool teacher, while Exposé's Aran Grover praised a more refined sound. Setlist.fm lists 9 performances among 419 setlists, consistent with the band no longer playing pre-2022 material. We found no chart entry, video, covers or samples. Our upload is the official audio of the studio version.