Photo by Akash Wadhwani

In just a few short years, fleshwater have evolved from the heavy-gaze side-project featuring members from Massachusetts metalcore outfit Vein.fm as well as MIRSY to becoming those members’ main focus after the project became undeniably much more popular. They’re rock crossover festival scene favs and have been put on the map even more so after playing sold out arenas earlier this year as openers for Deftones. “Jetpack”, the lead single from the band’s anticipated sophomore follow-up, 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky, takes off on that momentum — but not in the direction you may have guessed they would, based off everything you’ve heard from them at this point.

The listen maintains a heaviness to its weight — thick, burly riffs and dense, rumbling layers of rhythm in tact — but it also sounds like they’re making a concentrated effort to beat any ’90s alternative revival or Deftones Jr. allegations, as they veer onto their own course of gravity-defying emotive hardcore that’s searching for clarity amid the murk. “There’s nowhere to go / It won’t get better / You keep pulling down,” Marisa Shirar cries out, with Anthony DiDio becoming entangled in gravity with her soon after. Where will they ultimately land after this? That will have to be part of this new adventure…

Directed by: Eric Richter

fleshwater’s 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky will be released September 5th on Closed Casket Activities.