New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Chicago's hard-hitting, post-metal trio, SNOW BURIAL have released a new music video featuring the song, "Třinec", taken from their forthcoming full-length titled, Ostrava. The emotion-inducing track showcases the bands ability to expertly transition between progressive noise, heavy sludge and post-metal.
"It's about our time there (The Czech Republic). It's bleak, alienating, ugly", comments SNOW BURIAL. "It's meant to make you feel stranded in an unfamiliar place. The layering is intended to evoke a sense of disorientation and not-at-homeness. The band is withheld in footage until the end because Ostrava is at the helm. Only after a bizarre odyssey does Snow Burial earn their space in the story."
SNOW BURIAL will release their ambitious and powerful new album, Ostrava on September 20th.
Track List
1. Tyranny
2. Sever The Bloodline
3. The Afterneath
4. Třinec
5. Ostrava
6. Gaping Wounds
7. Burn The Crown Down
8. The Lost
9. The Unforgiven
With their roots deep in the vibrant core of Chicago's heavy music scene, SNOW BURIAL already have two EPs, one full length, Victory in Ruin, and a split tape with Aseethe under their belts. Mere moments after Victory In Ruin (2016) was unveiled writing for Ostrava commenced; and the resulting tracks were recorded in early 2019 at Electrical Audio, Chicago, with Shane Hochstetler at the helm.
Born from their defining experiences at home and on the road the unifying theme of Ostrava is one of duality - failure and triumph, celebration and mourning, isolation and family. The precarious balance of their lives are laid out across the nine tracks in Ostrava; the costs of glory given equal billing to meditative contemplation and blazing riffs. The complexities of modern life and politics weigh heavily and color the narrative of the album. The result is a compelling collection of songs that resonate universally, with equal parts grief and gratitude bundled up into digestible chunks of post-metal fury.
The headbangability of each track belies the complexities of the layers that lurk beneath. Taking inspiration from the likes of Radiohead as much as any metal act; SNOW BURIAL craft polished songs with the whirring machinery hidden just below the surface. Their blend of melody and aggression delivers a sound that dredges the depths of doom and sludge and marries it with rock 'n' roll sensibilities.
The album artwork was created by Menerva Tau, a mixed media artist and photographer from Turkey, whose haunting work echoes the sentiment behind Ostrava.
