Chosen by Monk
Shamefully (on our part), it has been a full 18 months since these Indiana progressive rockers last graced these pages, but we’re more than making up for lost time with this powerful latest sample from their upcoming second album.
The band’s very story is one of resilience and transformation, of triumph over adversity, of emerging from silence into a fire of creativity, and this is reflected in their music, as singer and guitarist Austin Frink reveals:
Only a few years ago, the silence was literal. Cancer.
I had recently watched my parents pass on, and I fought my own physical war not to join them. I did not sing. After surgery and treatment, I couldn’t.
But hope has a way of coercing those in despair back to motion. To build. To survive. The whisper became a croak. The croak became a quiet, hoarse note. That note became a roar. Bastion Rose is the roar.
[‘Someday’] is the moment you finally stand up. You realize that you alone have the power to rebuild your reality. You are the creator of your world.
There is no light without the weight of the dark. Scars persist, but in fact compose the art of ourselves. We are powerful, fragile things, expanding and dissolving. How beautiful it is to build and to grow and to reach for the sky as long as we live and breathe.
- The new album, ‘Blue Rising’, will be released later this year via Epictronic Records.