Portland sludge slingers STONEBURNER will unleash their new full-length, Life Drawing, in North America via Neurot Recordings on April 15th (April 14th in the UK/EU).

The band have revealed the first audiovisual insight into the sounds that propel Life Drawing. Who better to visualize their desolate, down-tuned blues than Kenneth Thomas, director of Blood, Sweat & Vinyl, the captivating documentary about independent music, as told through the eyes of some forward thinking labels, including Neurot Recordings, home of Stoneburner.

This video teaser opens with a quote from A.A Milne whilst the lurching bassline of 'Caged Bird' sets the scene. J.J. Shirey's dark artwork is featured prominently making sure our eye is cast over every moment, until we're confronted with raw live footage of the band performing album highlight, 'An Apology To A Friend In Need', replete with their patented magma-thick riffs and subterranean growls. Overall, a great indicator of what listeners can expect from the upcoming full-length as we edge closer to release date.

Recorded, mixed and produced by Fester at Haywire Studios, mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering - both in Portland - and swathed in the visually abrasive cover art of J.J. Shirey, Life Drawing promises to hurl Stoneburner's habitually chest-caving sludge mantras to entirely new realms of earth-deteriorating heaviness.

Comments the band in a collective statement: "Lyrically we've always focused on personal matters, and one theme that particularly seems to keep coming up on this record is the struggle to be a decent person in a world that keeps doing its best to cause you not to be. J.J. Shirey, who paints our album covers, is part of the Stoneburner brotherhood and we have absolute faith in him. We have him sit in on rehearsals, read our lyrics, and then we send him off to come up with whatever he thinks best suits the material. We feel that this piece absolutely captures the mood of trying to grow and heal, but constantly finding yourself falling back into the darkness caused by emotional and physical addictions. The world isn't always a happy, beautiful place, and neither is our music. Thanks to J.J. you're going to sense that before you even hear the album."

Life Drawing tracklisting:

'Some Can'

'Caged Bird'

'Drift'

'An Apology To A Friend In Need'

'Pale New Eyes'

'Giver Of Birth'

'Done'

'You Are The Worst'

'The Phoenix'

Stoneburner features a persuasive musical ancestry that winds through BURIED AT SEA, BURIED BLOOD, HEATHEN SHRINE and others. Named after a subterranean weapon from the novel Dune, Stoneburner deliver a wholly organic orchestration of captivating, crustified doom metal, their torrid hymns bathed in internal agony, anguish and despair.

To define Stoneburner, one need only look to the list of bands with whom they've shared the stage: YOB, SLEEP, EYEHATEGOD, NEUROSIS, BUZZOV-EN, WEEDEATER, SAINT VITUS, WATAIN, TRAGEDY, NOOTHGRUSH, GRAVES AT SEA, LORD DYING, DROP DEAD, WHITEHORSE, WIND HAND, BASTARD NOISE.