Valley of the Sun Premiere “The Hunt” Video

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Volume Rock, the sophomore full-length from Cincinnati, Ohio, heavy rockers Valley of the Sun, is available now to preorder from Fuzzorama Records. That same label released the band’s 2014 debut, Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk (review here), which was preceded by the 2011 EP The Sayings of the Seers (review here) and an earlier 2010 demo/EP. The Swedish imprint run by members of fuzz kings Truckfighters makes an all the more fitting home for the band, who may or may not have rebuilt around the core lineup of guitarist/vocalist Ryan Ferrier and drummer Aaron Boyer, as Europe has unquestionably been their focus the last couple years, touring to support Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk, building a following abroad while cementing a reputation domestically as they worked toward the making of Volume Rock itself.

Their second time working with producer/engineer John Naclerio at Nada Recording Studio in New York, Volume Rock is something of a manifesto for Valley of the Sun, who bring their influence further out of the post-Slo Burn desert across its span and into a spacious heavy rock that’s more the band’s own. They’ve been on that path for the last several years and have taken an important creative step in Volume Rock‘s tracks, but the key to the album is the energy of their delivery, which is where the two-minute blaster “The Hunt” comes in, racing top speed at the listener as the band — it may have just been Boyer and Ferrier on the recording, I honestly don’t know; they certainly sound like a full group either way — carefully weave their way through verses and choruses given fitting accompaniment in the new video for the track by animation of a caveman who gets his ass kicked by dinosaurs, invents a spear, takes a second to rock out to Ferrier‘s solo, and then completely wrecks the aforementioned dinosaurs, who are actually kind of cute, with spears to the head.

And yes, everyone knows cavemen and dinosaurs didn’t live at the same time. It’s a cartoon. Get over it.

More to come as we get closer to the April 29 release date for Volume Rock, but for today, I’m very happy to be able to host the premiere of the video for “The Hunt.” You can find it below, followed by some comment from Boyer on how it came together, and the preorder link for the record.

Enjoy:

Valley of the Sun, “The Hunt” official video

Aaron Boyer on “The Hunt”:

“The video for ‘The Hunt’ was actually started before the song was even recorded. Ryan and I were working on writing for the new album and during a break he showed me a video on YouTube called Pizza Balls. It was basically a GIF of a piece of pizza with testicles that it would swing back and forth with techno music in the background. I was sold and immediately said, ‘We have to get whoever made this to do a video for us!’ I found the animator; a guy named Ari Grabb, and sent him an email. By this time we had started tracking for Volume Rock. We chose this song to do the video for, but at the time it had a working title of ‘Spear.’ I had Ari come up with the entire concept, and that initial working title for the track actually influenced the storyboard of the video. We approved the storyboards, paid the man, and received this wild caveman video a couple months later. It’s important to note that many, many dinosaurs were harmed during the making of this video.”

Volume Rock by Valley Of The Sun will be released on 29th April 2016 through Fuzzorama Records.

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Volume Rock preorder at Fuzzorama Records

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