Portland post‑doom collective Burial Clouds will release their new full‑length, Burn Holy, on 22 May.

Burial Clouds' music exists in a constant tension between beauty and rage, crushing riffs and intricate expanses that move between inner and outer worlds, healing ritual and seditious fire. Each song serves as a meditation on what it means to live with a gentle yet furious heart in an inhuman age.

Founding guitarist Matt Mitchell elaborates on the creation of Burn Holy: "We set out to make this record more intense in every direction than Last Days Of A Dying World... 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".

Ahead of the album's release, the band have unveiled the first video single, "Be Not Afraid". Mitchell comments: "'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". Link