Burial Tree, the musical creature of Northern California’s artist Monte Cimino, is ready to come back with the new album, The Power Of Myth, slated for release on August 1 via Subcontinental Records. The album showcases three tracks for over 37 minutes of musical experience and features the mighty Dave Lombardo from Slayer on one of the tracks.
A foretaste of what you might expect from the album is now available with the song “Sigils”. Listen below.
Over the course of its eleven minutes, “Sigils” showcases psychedelic guitars, furious drum fills, and evocative synth textures. The experience is deliberately constructed to make the listener lose himself in a dimension that has no centrality, exactly as the human being, now disillusioned, struggles to give meaning to life in the current social context.
Burial Tree was formed in 2009 by Bay Area artist Monte Cimino. The group released two albums, Outer Dark (2010) and Rituals (2012). Both releases were positively received, before the group disbanded in 2013. During the next ten years, Monte released a single and an EP under the Burial Tree moniker. Then, during the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, Monte started recording demos that didn’t fit any of his current projects at the time. This led to the revival of Burial Tree and the 2025 album, The Power Of Myth.
Burial Tree’s music falls somewhere in between heavy post-rock/metal, experimental, and ambient genres while maintaining memorable and engaging songs. For The Power Of Myth, Cimino recruited ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, Bay Area drummer Adam McClure, bassist/producer Bill Laswell, and saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum to contribute to the album’s three extended tracks. A mixture of improvised and composed sections, The Power Of Myth delivers crushing psychedelic riffs and unhinged primal drumming that seemingly melts into dark ambient landscapes and tense textural interludes.
The Power Of Myth will be available as digipak CD and digital. Pre-order here.
Burial Tree - The Power Of Myth (coverart)
The Power Of Myth tracklisting:
“Sigils” “Veve” “The Power Of Myth”
Credits:
“Sigils” Monte Cimino: guitar, efx Bill Laswell: bass, treatments, efx Adam McClure: drums
Recorded in Rohnert Park and San Francisco, CA. Additional recording: Orange Music, West Orange New Jersey and engineered by James Dellatacoma.
“Veve: Peter Apfelbaum: saxophone, megaphone Monte Cimino: guitar, efx Dave Lombardo: drums, electronics
Recorded in Rohnert Park and Southern California. Peter Apfelbaum was recorded at the Lethe Lounge, NYC and engineered by Mark Ettinger.
“The Power Of Myth” Monte Cimino: bass, efx Bill Laswell: bass, efx
Recorded in Rohnert Park, CA. Additional recording: Orange Music, West Orange New Jersey and engineered by James Dellatacoma.
– Mixed by James Dellatacoma for Orange Music. Mastered by Michael Valentine West. Art by Alex Eckman Lawn. Logo and Layout and additional graphics by Arun for Icosa projects.
