‘More Than Bones’, the new Andy Maier-directed video from Demon Hunter, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band’s latest album “Peace”, which was made available alongside a companion LP, “War”, on March 1.
Frontman Ryan Clark told Kerrang! about ‘More Than Bones’: ” I was thinking of what an amazing thing music is, and the idea of preserving someone’s life beyond their death. There have been a lot of musicians’ deaths over the last few years that I’d started thinking about, whether that was Bowie or Prince or Waylon or Chris Cornell, and I thought, despite how tragic it is to lose those people, how awesome it is to have this catalog of music from each of those people. There might be people generations from now who listen to this music, and it really helps them and changes their life in some positive way. So ‘More Than Bones’ is basically saying that when I leave this earth, I’ll leave you more than bones — I’ll leave you all of my thoughts and all of my hopes and dreams and my desire to connect and resonate with people through this music.”
Clark told Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio show that releasing two separate albums “with the polarized styles” that Demon Hunter is known for — “heavy and the super-melodic ‘ballad’-style songs” — is something he and his bandmates have “talked about doing for a long time.” He explained: “We didn’t want to do it too early in our career just because it felt like a lofty sort of endeavor. So we didn’t want to get carried away too early. So now kind of rounding out our albums at No. 9 and No. 10, seems like a really good time to do it.”
Ryan said that Demon Hunter decided not to package the two LPs together because “double albums are too hard to digest. Of the ones that have been released from bands that I really like, I never really found myself diving into them and fully really soaking them in just because it’s quite an undertaking,” he said. “So I wanted this to almost be two autonomous things that are meant to be listened to. And I know, coming out on the same day and everything, they might as well be packaged together, but the idea of them being separate is that they… it might not be so burdensome to consume.”
Our review of “War” & “Peace’ can be found here.
Demon Hunter formed in Seattle in 2001. The lineup features Clark alongside co-founder Jonathan Dunn (bass), drummer Tim “Yogi” Watts (drums, since 2004), lead guitarist Patrick Judge (since 2008) and guitarist Jeremiah Scott (since 2011). Clark remains the primary songwriter, with increasing contributions from Judge.
An recent interview with frontman Clark can be found here.
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Video for ‘More Than Bones’
