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Hollow Bones Premieres "Drytooth" Music Video

Previously known as Edenborn, New York outfit Hollow Bones is officially relaunching today with the release of a new music video for the "Drytooth" single, and Metalunderground.com is proud to be exclusively premiering the clip online.

"Drytooth" - a track about overcoming great loss - is taken off the upcoming "Lionheart" album, which is now written and will soon be recorded. The video can be seen below, and vocalist Patrick Anthony comments:

"The shooting of Drytooth was a great experience, albeit very tiring. We probably put on a full performance of the song about 40 times over the course of the day to ensure that we got all the footage we could need. Of course it was fun, and there was joking around, but it was also a lot of work.

"There were some very specific shots that we wanted to have in the video that incorporated design elements from cinematography, so there was a lot of discussion on how to get those shots. The guy who did the filming, Michael DeFilio, was great. He is based out of CT, which is where we shot the video, in an old abandoned Hummer dealership. I don’t know how he went about getting permission for us to shoot there, but he did, haha. He REALLY worked his butt off for us, and I think it really comes through in the video.

"Thematically the song is very dark. I lost my brother in 2007, and the song is really about not being able to move past it. Carrying around the weight of not knowing whether it was an intentional death or not. It is about the hole in your life that someone can leave, regardless of how or why you have lost them. It is about watching someone you love suffer through tremendous depression, and being powerless to do anything.

"The song ends with my admission that I would have preferred to have taken his place. The song is about hopelessness, anger, frustration, guilt, and longing, and we hope that we have clearly conveyed those feelings, because I think everyone has, or will, lose someone dear to them. I think it is a very relatable subject."

Patrick also had this to say about the band's recent title switch up: "The name change was something that was a long time coming. Our previous name (Edenborn) held a certain ironic meaning, because we believe that we are born free, and that this is our paradise; that is to say we get one chance, and we have to make the most of it. Hollow||Bones, however, to us, handles this matter in a more direct way.

"Hollow bones (among other things, obviously) are what allow birds to fly. Birds, throughout all of history, have signified freedom, and to us, it signifies soaring through our lives on a fragile framework. What is more than that, birds can also represent a much wider range of things, including friendship, love, rebirth, greed, corruption, etc. We want to write about the human condition. About what the world is like, and the things that we as humans experience. Birds symbolize all of our feelings and achievements as a race. So we arrived at Hollow||Bones."