Hot off the heels of their sixth full-length album South Of The Sun, experimental grunge rockers The Stone Eye have revealed a hilarious new music video for the song “Who’s There?“. The video was directed by Jeremiah Bertin and Stephen Burdick. “Who’s There?” is the fourth music video from the band’s sixth full-length album South Of The Sun, which was released on October 15, 2021 via Eclipse Records. Get the album now at this location.
“When I wrote the screenplay for ‘Who’s There’, my goal was to write something silly and funny, while also maintaining the themes of mystery and paranoia that are reflected in the lyrics” says drummer Jeremiah Burtin. “Luckily, the final product was exactly how I envisioned it to be. Filming the video was a lot of fun, and it was a very creative process, with all four of us bouncing ideas back and forth and ending up with a truly collaborative effort. This is one of my favorite things that we have done as a band because it was way outside of our comfort zone; none of us had ever acted on camera before. But I think this video just goes to show that when you set out to just have fun and be silly, you may stumble upon a side of you that you never knew you had.”
The new record, titled South of the Sun, is one of those gems that is familiar somehow, yet takes the listener on a journey mapped out in new pathways. The album’s music invokes the spirits of Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain while applying their influence upon music which easily falls alongside the likes of Queens of the Stone Age and Alice In Chains. Heavy with a layer of glorious weirdness, this album combines a raucous, dirty guitar sound with clever musicianship … vocals that are as hypnotic in harmony as they are diverse in range, and a rhythm section as daring as it is ornate and, at times, funk-a-licious. With thirteen mesmerizing songs altogether, the singles from the album certainly showcase the wide range of influences upon the band’s writing.
For the first single “Witches & Raptures”, the band sings about being trapped in the big picture of the world around us and how servants eventually are consumed by their social masters after they have served their purpose. The second single “Catatonia” is more of an exercise in meditative songwriting designed to just lose the listener in the lyrics which represent such philosophical questions such as ‘who’s out there, what’s there?’. The third single “Aleutian Summer” can be best described as a scene out of The Shining, going stir-crazy because you’re figuratively trapped in the middle of God knows where. They are soulful songs, and in their own way erotic, both perfect for rock, alternative, stoner, and even metal radio playlists as fuzzy stoner sludge wrapped up in a progressive, pop metal take on the rock genre.
