Last November, Unique Leader released the latest album by Pittsburgh’s Signs of the Swarm, whose musical concoctions straddle intersecting lines of brutal death metal, slam, and deathcore. The seventh track on that 10-track release was “Nightcrawler“, and that song is the subject of the music video we’re premiering in this post.

There are chiming notes in this song that surface here and there. They sound like a child’s music box, one that has somehow continued to play in a mechanized war zone. It’s an eerie sensation, one haunting remnant of innocence in a landscape given over to violence. Continue reading »