Junius Announce New Album With 'Initiatrix' Video

Boston post-metal band, Junius, have unleased a music video for their new single "Initiatrix," which is the first taste of their brand new studio album "Soreta", that is set to be released by Prosthetic Records on June 26th and marks the band's first new full length in almost a decade.

The video for Junius' "Initiatrix" was created by vocalist/guitarist Joseph E. Martinez, who had this to say, "'Initiatrix" distills the album into 3 minutes and 23 seconds, and it captures the heart of the record. It's about willingly stepping into a ritualistic transformation, asking to be changed and accepting the consequences of that choice."

Action! Public Relations sent over these details about the album: Produced by Junius vocalist/guitarist, Joseph E. Martinez and Tom Syrowski (Blackberry Smoke, Mastodon), 'Sotera', in Martinez's words, "feels like a rebirth for the band" and "is an act of devotion as much as it is a piece of music."

Harmonizing bright transcendence, heightened consciousness, coiled ear-worming, and emotional swell in like degree, 'Sotera's' ambient shoegaze metal is expansive and deep, best experienced unhurriedly. Call it sound as relief and release; intense undercurrents of magnetic volume attached to an almost symphonic use of motion. Fully realized music as exhilarating as it is ghostly. Whereas earlier Junius records wrestled with cataclysms, escaping Samsara and what might come after death, 'Sotera' shifts the focus toward something more immediate: restoring balance through the worship of the divine feminine.

"The word Sotera is the feminine form of savior or protector in Greek, and it perfectly captured what the album was circling around," offers Martinez. "This album is a musical invocation that explores the divine feminine as a force of transformation and balance. Medea stands at the threshold. In Sotera we're calling upon Hekate, her mother, to guide us in her resurrection. The Oracle as a loving but ignored prophet. Lucifera appears as the punished light-bringer. The Initiatrix is the one who begins the rite."

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