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Introducing: Heartless Breakers

• 29th May 2015

If you’re anything like me and you can remember the teenage angst that used to course through your veins as you listened to Thursday and At The Drive In with the curtains drawn, you might have been wondering where all the good post-hardcore bands have gone lately.

We’re happy to report that Salt Lake City’s Heartless Breakers are here to pick up that baton with their excellent new track ‘Carbon Copy’ – check out the video below.

Video director Everett Fitch explains of the concept for this new visuals; “There’s this old flour mill left over from the Battle of Stalingrad during WWII. It survived months of air raids and gunfights while most every other building in the city collapsed. Relentless attacks did damage but not enough to make it fall. Massive windows and doors make up the building so when the bombs hit, the blasts were able to escape, to go somewhere instead of being trapped inside to do more damage.”

“What’s so beautiful about this is how true it is to human nature. I think we all tend to keep explosions inside of us. We’re afraid to let them out because they’re painful. But just like that still-standing building in Russia, we need to embrace every last explosion. We need to build windows and doors within ourselves and let the pain pass through. Otherwise, we become shadows of ourselves. Where who we want to be isn’t who we choose to be. Where we become unsuspecting victims and heirs of pain passed down.”

“This music video is about that waking-life and unconscious-life dichotomy. It’s about pain dividing you in two if you let it. It’s about living a life within a life where self-medication takes the place of self-awareness. It’s about finally learning to embrace, not neglect, those deep-seated and everyday explosions.”

The track is taken from their debut full-length ‘The Great Give Back’ out now on Animal Style Records.