We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Skytown Riot’s music video for their song “Devil’s Masquerade” (watch it below). The track is taken from the band’s debut album Alive In The Fire, available for purchase here.
The music video was directed, filmed and edited by Jacob Boyd of Post Retro Productions.
The band commented on the song:
The theme of hidden intentions runs deep in both the song lyrics and the direction of the “Devil’s Masquerade” video. The song was inspired by a person in my life who was merely existing behind a facade. I knew the man behind the mask, and watching how easily people could be deceived, duped, misled… it was illuminating. Jacob Boyd, who directed and filmed the video, did an incredible job of elaborating on these ideas. “The goal of the video was to visualize the thoughts of the characters in an attempt to clarify the power dynamic between them. We often wear masks in social scenarios, but our initial perceptions don’t always equal reality.”
The band continues:
It’s been a hardscrabble climb for Nashville modern rockers Skytown Riot, and while the ladder to success seems to stretch into an infinite sky sometimes, vocalist/guitarist Van Gallik, bassist Jason Fruchey, and drummer Sebastian Dunkel have settled in for the long haul.
The band launches into 2017 with Alive in the Fire, a 13-song album of rock ‘n’ roll urgency that defy easy categorization, a point on the map where modern rock juggernauts like 10 Years and Shinedown commingle with the darker tones of acts like My Chemical Romance and Evanescence. It’s the band’s most personal body of work to date, and that’s saying a lot, given that the group’s 2013 EP, Soul Or System, earned accolades in Alternative Press, a video premiere by Substream Magazine, and propelled the band on tour across the country.
“You can’t save this,” Gallik pleads on “In Dissolution,” Skytown Riot’s new single — but the trio isn’t trying to save modern rock. They’re the sentries on the wall, lighting signal pyres to let all those who see it burn know that it’s very much alive. From the funky staccato bravado of “Devil’s Masquerade” to the gossamer melodies of “Paint Me The Sky”, from the foreboding dreamscapes of “One Day” to the upbeat, heavily grooving “In The Grey” – Alive In The Fire is a record that demands the volume knob be turned up and broken off.
As sonically powerful as their new record is, it’s a whole different level to experience the band live. Gallik, Fruchey, and Dunkel still feel it every time they get on stage – the energy from a seething crowd of screaming fans. “That’s where the release is,” Gallik adds. “We find comfort in very few places that we would really call home, and being on the stage, big or small, is definitely one of those places. We love playing to people who come out to escape their realities, because that’s exactly what we’re doing as well.”
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