Out of the scorched soil of Colorado Springs, blackened crust collective UPON A FIELD’S WHISPER returns with a new vision—one not of apocalypse, but of reawakening. Their new single, “Of Flesh and Wool,” is the first glimpse into “Rejuvenation”, the band’s sophomore full-length due June 27 via their own What’s Left Records —a DIY enclave etched in the ashes of crumbled idealism.
The track is a laceration and a lament. Driven by torn-throat screams and mournful dissonance, “Of Flesh and Wool” strips humanity down to its most essential and uncomfortable truth: we are all the same organism, torn from skin and bone, no badge or office can wash us clean. No cross or uniform sanctifies. The song unspools in a volatile haze of crust riffs, bludgeoning rhythms, and desperate intonations—a howl against hierarchy, a call to recognize the fragile meat in us all.
Visually, the video—created by Morgan’s Brother—sinks into something equally haunting. A barrage of pop culture fragments, like memory flashbulbs at the edge of death, flicker across the screen: a timeline not of facts, but of shared delusion. It’s what we cling to when the world burns. The final images, broken and speeding, whisper: you were here, and you were one of us.
For those who’ve followed UPON A FIELD’S WHISPER since their harrowing 2023 debut “Sorry for Your Loss”—a mournful, genre-defiant eulogy for a poisoned Earth—this latest chapter deepens the band’s obsession with decay, rebirth, and the painful weight of survival. The lineup remains solid: Bryan Ostrow (vocals/guitar), Steen Perret (guitar), Bryan Webb (bass), and David Dempsey (drums) have long abandoned any illusions of genre purity, weaving screamo, crust, black metal, and doom into a sound that mutates with purpose.
The new album “Rejuvenation”—recorded by Nick Pryor at Lower Realm Recording and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios—continues the descent. The cover art, once again crafted by Alex CF (FALL OF EFRAFA, LIGHTBEARER), captures a vision of man buried in the riches he killed for, while the earth claws its way back over the bones.
Preorders for Rejuvenation are live now, the label Ostrow runs with his brother—a space rooted in DIY ethics, DIT (Do It Together) action, and resistance to the machinery of mainstream culture.
The band will be performing at WHAT’S LEFT FEST on September 13–14 in Colorado Springs, followed by a brief Southwest tour in October.
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