Since recently releasing the band’s outstanding debut album Sonder//Satori, North Carolina melodic death metal act BLACKWATER DROWNING have grown from strength to strength, and with the release of the brand-new video The Caged, you can hear and see why this is a band to watch.
Discussing the subject matter for the lyrics, vocalist Morgan Riley offers: “It’s about breaking free of the mundane. We all die the same no matter what we got in life, so why pour your minutes into the rat race and never be happy? For the video, Garrett the videographer came up with the idea of fire as a whole concept. Fire is both destructive and cleansing, and that’s a fitting application for the theme of the song. There is a note of excess with the awesome vintage cars and fire dancer, balanced with the rawness of our own performances. We feel the video captures the spirit of ‘The Caged’, the dichotomy of dark, light, and the desire to go out in a blaze of glory.”
