On May 22, Mountaineer will release a new album named Bloodletting on Lifeforce Records. But today the band unveiled a single from the forthcoming record (below), titled "Shot Through With Sunlight" to help generate enthusiasm early.
Speaking of the upcoming release, the group's third full-length, the band says:
Like its predecessors, Bloodletting is something of a concept album, with all of the songs tied together under one overarching idea. From the moment we started working on the project, we knew we were artistically taking a step in a darker direction. Every conversation about the record always seemed to center on themes of letting go, shedding our skin, and casting off non-physical things weighing us down. As each of us grows older we try to become better versions of ourselves, and in that process we have learned it often becomes necessary to distance ourselves from certain people and places in our pasts. While the meaning of these themes may differ from band member to band member, from the onset our unified intention was to write an album that served as a goodbye letter to those people and things we've had to leave behind.
Mountaineer released Passages in 2018.
