Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, Midwinter is a 5-piece metalcore band with a lineup consisting of vocalist Billy Toth, guitarist/vocalist Kody Archer, guitarist Zac D’Urso, drummer Rob Rini, and bassist Max Underwood. The band’s discography includes the tracks “Pariah,” “Thorn,” “M.I.A.,” and “Origami Swans.” Now, the ensemble returns with a stirring new track entitled “Glass Mountains.”

This beautifully crafted composition unfolds in nature like a sacred scroll, that must be handled with the utmost care. The haunting opening lines are soothing: “Collect your thoughts on the way out / I’d help you pick up the pieces, but you broke my hand / I hope you fall on the way down / I hope you beg for forgiveness / When you understand…” — before erupting into a zealous storm filled with progressive riffs, dynamic drum work, and surging vocals: “This is a celebration for me and myself / Another day in misery / Wherever I go the rain always shows / I’m meant to live in tragedy.”

Drawing from personal experiences, the band meticulously pours everything into their poetic art and their dedication clearly shows, like a beating heart on a sleeve.The insightful lyrical content shines through its transparent vulnerability, highlighting the fragility of relationships with a symbol representation of glass mountains: “You should watch what you say when words are made of stone / You have an elegant way of breaking brick like bone / And I know it’s hard to climb / When mountains break like glass / Steady hands and a hollow heart / How can you hold me up? / Was I alone from the start?” Any relationship — friendship, family connection, or romantic bond — can grow strong, but there is always a risk, whenever one negative event, disagreement, or loss of temperament occurs; “Glass Mountains” acknowledges how truly delicate the human experience is and how the greatest of ‘mountains’ can shatter and fall apart into tiny pieces of shards.