“I’ve been watching ships go under / Cold fingers drag the captain down / Transfixed by violent thunder / The hand of God can’t save them now.” As the penultimate track to their forthcoming third studio album, Obsidian Wreath, Infant Island’s “Kindling” begins with the Fredericksburg band immersed in a space cold and icy, flanked in the desolate presence of fellow dark and heavy rockers, Harper Boyhtari and Logan Gaval of Greet Death. The listen is observation of uncorrectable destruction at the hands of our own, though in communion with these other bodies, the friction in the atmosphere sparks and then suddenly conflagrates. “Kindling our lonely fires, we nurture our frozen dreams,” vocalist Daniel Kost screams through the flames. If the only way back to warmth is through a collective acceptance of the end times and watching it all burn from afar, so be it.

Infant Island’s Obsidian Wreath will be released January 12th on Secret Voice.