Serbian metal band Quasarborn has announced their new album entitled “A Pill Hard to Swallow“with a video for the song “Atlas“.The video was shot in the Serbian mining region of Bor by Jovana Uzelac, andedited by Luka Matković (vocals, guitars). Maintaining their DIY methods, the album was produced by Luka Matković, and thecover was designed by Marko Danilović Tihi (drums). The release date is expected to be insummer/autumn 2019.
Luka Matkovićstates:”A Pill Hard to Swallow”is a lot more versatilethan our debut. There are still some pretty straight-forward thashers, like the opener “Mamula”, butI don’t think anyone expected us to writesongs like “Identity Catharsis”, or”Clouds”. Even though our roots still lie in thrash metal, it was a very natural progression for us to drop manygenre boundaries and implement influenced ranging from brutal death metal to pop music.The lyrics are very personal, writing them was like therapy for me, and while there’s no clear concept, or story like on “The Odyssey to Room 101”, there’s a very unique sentiment to them which makes this album a whole.
As for “Atlas”, it is one of the more classic metal/rock songs on the album. It dealswith a person who always felt alonegrowing up, surrounded by enemies, and was generally unable to connect with most people. At one point he realises that everyone’s just as lost as him in the game of life, and all conflict and misery is mostly just a concequence of misunderstanding, so he decides to drop the grudges and forgive humankindand is released from this heavy burden.”
