Burial Clouds have announced a new album titled “Burn Holy.” The effort will be released on May 22 and it will feature the following tracks:
01. “Burning The Olive Tree”
02. “Windflower”
03. “Ashen Altar”
04. “Negations”
05. “Be Not Afraid”
06. “Screaming, Drowning Pacified”
07. “Forget Me Not”
08. “Eyes Without Light”
Matt Mitchell commented:
“We set out to make this record more intense in every direction than Last Days… Prettier and heavier, more gentle, vicious, intense, technically challenging, you name it. Having Marina on vocals has allowed us to highlight aspects of the music that might have otherwise been missed. She’s able to access dimensions of expression the rest of us just can’t. The depth that Bryce’s killer backups bring can’t go unmentioned either; the combination of the two creates greater than the sum of its parts. ‘Burn Holy’ took more or less a year for us to write, starting about three months after the first record came out. There was no regular process. Some songs had the instrumental written first, vocals later. Some were all at once, some were a back-and-forth iterative process of rearranging, rewriting, rinse and repeat. As they developed, each song developed its own voice. We tried above all else to listen to what they told us was needed, and far more often than not, we all heard the same thing. Some songs went through upwards of 10 or 12 versions. It was a very intense process, and I think we all feel, because of that, that this is literally the best record we were capable of making at that point.”
A video for the first single, “Be Not Afraid,” can be found below. Mitchell added the following about that:
“‘Be Not Afraid’ is ultimately about fear and awe and the consequences of their manipulation. We wanted to express our resistance to that, in the dynamics of the music, with a feeling of relentlessness and spiritual inevitability. Like erosive crashing waves or the fury of a mother protecting her young… You use whatever tools you have to rebalance the scales.”