Austin, TX – March 2024 – Starving Wolves have released ‘Ossuaries’, the third single from their new album ‘The Fire, The Wolf, The Fang’.

“‘Ossuaries’ was written lyrically during the Covid lockdown and the George Floyd riots. At that time it seemed as if life as we knew it was coming to an end. The United States was on fire and people were acting as if this was something new” explains frontman David Rodriguez. Although a sense of normalcy has returned, that sense of edge hasn’t gone away. Rodriguez belts out “The perfect storm of traumas / Vomits down on every shore / Black versus white / March right then left” to demonstrate the clear divide the country was experiencing during that time. Rodriguez invokes the U.S.’s earliest history and compares it today: “Our culture of hate has been going on since the first ships landed here, raping and colonizing -the new world-. Politically, it could not have been more obvious. The right and left were having a field day with the racial tension. People were hiding indoors and businesses were shutting down, you could literally see the fear in people’s eyes.” It wasn’t just Rodriguez’s national happenings that inspired lyrics to the song. He recounts a trip to Brazil during the pandemic: “I went to São Paulo, Brazil during that time and Covid had taken over, the hospitals were filled with dead people and families crying outside. I had never witnessed anything like this before and it felt were creating these ossuaries of hate and pain and death.” This spawned the lines “A border between life and death / While corpses pile higher / Land is lost while the flesh rots off.” In addition to the single being available on all platforms, fans can get their hands on a FREE ‘Ossuaries’ picture flexi. The band enlisted the services of the incredibly talented Marie Recalde to put together the artwork for the flexi.

‘The Fire, The Wolf, The Fang’ a raw, relentless punk rock record that confronts widespread social issues like police brutality (‘Burn The Stations’), support for those struggling with their mental health or facing suicidal ideation (‘Please Listen’), and personal issues of cultural identity (‘Mixed Blood’). In the latter, Rodriguez draws upon his Mexican-American heritage, singing in both English and Spanish to articulate his experience to speakers of both languages, connecting racism faced by young people to the brutal history of colonialism in the Americas. In releasing songs from the record, Starving Wolves have literally put their money where their mouths are, donating to efforts to support mental health for indigenous youth by building skate parks on reservation land, and providing a positive athletic and creative outlet for kids in vulnerable populations. Forceful & dark, yet with an undying spirit of resilience, the journey of ‘The Fire, The Wolf, The Fang’ is ultimately a cathartic experience, and a scream of survival and hope for those left behind in a world that can feel bleak.