Photo by Brian Gossman

Former Wilderness guitarist Colin McCann came back from the brink of death and back to creative life following a break from the music world last year with his new band Vulture Feather. Alongside his fellow bandmate from the criminally underrated Baltimore band in bassist Brian Gossman alongside drummer Eric Fiscus, the NorCal trio’s debut, Liminal Fields, made the collision between spiritual and natural worlds sound like an epic catharsis of post-hardcore-indebted art punk fitting as a new lease on life chapter from where his former band left off. The visible atmospheres of an ever-expanding universe continue to reveal new realizations for McCann and company on “Blood Knot”, the lead single and opening track from Vulture Feather’s sophomore follow-up, It Will Be Like Now. The listen submerges visceral emotions on love against the criss-crashing of rhythmic guitars and steady-footed drums. “There’s no need to hide what you’re going through / I’ve been down that road myself”, McCann wails into the sky. “As the wave of our life comes crashing down / And resolves back into the sea.” Though the tides may intensify, he and Vulture Feather turn their violence into a prayerlike oscillation that extends its hands toward you while riding them out.

Directed by: Jared Donovan Paolini

Vulture Feather’s It Will Be Like Now will be released February 14th on Felte Records.