Posts Tagged ‘Prophecy Productions’

Watch: ‘Hermaphroditus’ by Camerata Mediolanense

Posted: 10 May 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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CAMERATA MEDIOLANENSE unveil the occult video clip ‘Hermaphroditus’ as the second single taken from the Italian ensemble’s forthcoming new album Atalanta Fugiens ("Atalante Fleeing"), which is based on an enigmatic alchemist tome and slated for release on June 14, 2024.

Watch the video, directed by Alan Factotum and Carmen Onophrii, here:

CAMERATA MEDIOLANENSE comment: "The song ‘Hermaphroditus’ is based on the thirty-third emblem of the treatise ‘Atalanta Fugiens’ written by the German alchemist Michael Maier and released in 1617", composer, multi-instrumentalist, and choir vocalist Elena Previdi reveals. "The Hermaphrodite, also called rebis (‘double thing’), is the fruit of a chemical marriage between opposites: the masculine and the feminine, naturally, but also the sun and the moon, hot and cold, blood and milk, gold and silver, or even, as in this passage, sulfur and mercury. The Hermaphrodite therefore represents divine perfection, which is achieved at the cost of unspeakable suffering that underlies the process of transformation of derangement into stillness, and that underlies the conflict between delirium and reason. Musically, a timeless voice starts the tormented alchemical process generated by the two choirs and the two harpsichords. The direction of the music is clear and neat, but at the end the funeral march of the horns makes its way. "

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Listen: ‘Royal Protea’ by Botanist

Posted: 19 April 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Avant-garde green metal outfit BOTANIST conclude the sowing of new singles with the track ‘Royal Protea’, which is taken from the forthcoming album Paleobotany that will begin to bloom in shops on May 17, 2024.

The ancestors of the flowing plant family of Protea evolved about 75–80 million years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwanaland, which covered most of the southern hemisphere. Due to the continental drift of earth’s tectonic plates, Gondwana separated into smaller parts that form today’s southern continents. In present times, Protea are mainly found in the area of South Africa. Its largest species, the self-fertilising Protea cynaroides, which is also called Giant Protea and King Sugar Bush is the country’s national plant.

Listen to ‘Royal Protea’ here:

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On their twelfth full-length Paleobotany, BOTANIST take us back more than 70 million years to a time when dinosaurs ruled the planet and early forests began to turn to coal. Before the age of giants ended in flames with the apocalyptic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, some families of plants that still have descendants today also grew much larger.

Paleobotany comes with all the trademark characteristics that set BOTANIST apart from all other metal acts on this planet. Lyrically, the band from San Francisco, CA revolves around species of plants – in a clean break from the usual genre stereotypes like Satan, dragons, and booze. Their music clearly has its foundation anchored in ‘metal’, but instead of 6-string guitars the Americans use 110-string hammered dulcimers. To the confused horror of traditionalists, BOTANIST fit these percussion-stringed folk instruments with magnetic pickups and distort them through various perverse means that range from amplifiers via analogue tape to digital manipulation. The resulting sound is as unique as spectacular.

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Watch: ‘On The Bridge of Dreams’ by Kinit Her

Posted: 2 November 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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KINIT HER release an image-rich nocturnal flight of fancy that becomes manifest in their second video clip ‘On the Bridge of Dreams’ taken from the American symbolist post-folk collective’s forthcoming new album The Nature Out There, which is slated for release on December 15, 2023.

Watch the video here:

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KINIT HER comment: “The words at the end of ‘On the Bridge of Dreams’ are a sampled quote from the Perennialist philosopher Frithjof Schuon”, vocalist and electronic sound-designer Nathaniel Ritter explains. “He states: ‘It’s not enough to think about metaphysics, one wants to also to see and to hear metaphysics in visible forms… and this is symbolism, and symbolism coincides with beauty. Symbolism, yes?’. ‘On the Bridge of Dreams’ is a heartfelt affirmative response to this question. Call forth your mirror, draw the spark, and begin again.”

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Watch: ‘Andermans Mijne’ by Laster

Posted: 13 October 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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LASTER celebrate today’s release on Friday, October 13 of the their new album Andermans Mijne with a video clip for the title track. The stunning new full-length from the Dutch avant-garde metal trio is now also streaming in full on all relevant platforms.

Watch the video here:

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LASTER commented on the title track: “With our new single ‘Andermans Mijne’ we seek to reaffirm our love for twists and turns”, drummer Wessel explained on behalf of the trio and went on to state: “The title track sets a densely layered, hypnotic tone for what is to come. Both halves of the song teasingly object against the listener’s expectation. Expressions of cross-cultural lifestyles in late modernity, adultery, playful innuendos, and the self-other relation per se are deemed as central themes of the music’s dissonance, which become laid bare on this track.”

Stream the album in full here:

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Listen: ‘Afgelopen tijd’ by Laster

Posted: 12 September 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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LASTER did not only stun the audience at Prophecy Fest last weekend with their memorable performance, but the three masked Dutchmen have also revealed ‘Afgelopen tijd’ (‘expired time’ or ‘time run out’) as the final advance single taken from their forthcoming album Andermans Mijne. The stunning new full-length from the avant-garde metal trio is scheduled for release on October 13, 2023.

LASTER comment: “On ‘Afgelopen tijd’, we have pinned down our passion for a hybrid of swing and groove”, vocalist and guitarist Nicky explains on behalf of the trio. “Perhaps it’s the thrust of the drumming, which might wake memories of the ‘Stadsluik’ EP. Those two nocturnal tracks that seemed to be buried in the background of a wacky after-party. However, our guitars flow more than ever as crisp as high speed internet. They are accompanied by prominent bass lines that are eager to reject any atavistic dictate. So what does the clean singing command? Nothing. It should rather be perceived as a free roaming element that gets mixed up with an increasingly repressing harshness.”

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Watch: ‘Þúsund þjáninga smiður’ by Fortíð

Posted: 24 August 2023 in Reviews
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Icelandic metal trio FORTÍÐ reveal the video single ‘Þúsund þjáninga smiður’ (‘A Man of a Thousand Sufferings’), which is taken from the forthcoming full-length Narkissos. Narkissos is slated for release on October 13, 2023.

The video ‘Þúsund þjáninga smiður’ depicts the endless cycle of bloody feuding that lies at the core of most Icelandic sagas and continues with usually less physical violence until today.

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Parallel to Narkissos, a 3CD artbook entitled Völuspá, which is featuring all three albums of the original trilogy will also be released. Each album comes with three bonus tracks and the book includes among other items introductions by Einar "Eldur" Thorberg Guðmundsson and Kári Pálsson as well as all lyrics in original language and English translations.

FORTÍÐ comment: “The title ‘Þúsund þjáninga smiður’ is a play of words, which is derived from the common Icelandic term ‘þúsund þjala smiður’; but instead of referring to a ‘man of a thousand traits’, we have changed it into a ‘man of a thousand sufferings’ here", mastermind Einar Thorberg Guðmundsson writes. "The lyrics are more abstract than the video. They revolve around mankind’s thin outer layer of civilization and the pure animal instinct that lurks beneath the surface. It takes little effort to reveal our true nature. The clear cut story-line of the video shows Icelandic farmers fighting over a piece of land. Such family feuds have been very common in Iceland throughout the centuries and lie at the core of our saga literature. Coincidentally, the farmer that so kindly lent me his fence for this video also had a very rough land dispute with the neighbouring farmer. I cannot go into the details, because it is still an ongoing court case that will hopefully get settled in a more civilized manner than what you see in this video.”

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Watch: ‘SLAVE’ by TAR POND

Posted: 27 July 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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TAR POND have just unveiled the fierce video clip ‘SLAVE’ as the next single taken from the Swiss doom visionaries’ forthcoming new album PETROL, which is scheduled for release on September 15, 2023.

TAR POND explain: “Although the video for ‘SLAVE’ was produced simultaneously with the clip for ‘BLIND’’, we approached the visuals in a quite different way”, vocalist Thomas Ott elaborates. “This dark and heavy song rather evokes simple and slow images. I had some interesting shots of jellyfish floating in dark water. So we decided to shoot some additional material of the band performing in the rehearsal room, filled with a maximum of smoke. That quickly turned out to be a bad idea due to the fire alarms installed in the building. Well, with the kind help of some good old friends, Marky managed to procure a much better location in no time. Initially, the video for ‘SLAVE’ was planned with more varied footage, but Fabrizio Merico’s sublime camera work, shot in only one night at the Zukunft Club in Zurich, and the absolute professional editing by Coroner’s Daniel Stoessel made us decide to just let it all go up in smoke! Sometimes less is more!”

Watch the video here:

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Watch: ‘BLIND’ by Tar Pond

Posted: 20 June 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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TAR POND are now unveiling the fierce video clip ‘BLIND’ as the first single taken from the Swiss doom visionaries’ forthcoming new album PETROL, which is scheduled for release on September 15, 2023.

TAR POND comment: “As an artist and part time filmmaker, I felt, once more, in the right place to take over the job of doing the video for ‘BLIND’, which proved to be a wise decision”, vocalist Thomas Ott writes. “Especially as there was almost zero production budget and not much time left to put something together. The result is a vibrant collage of moving or pulsing pictures. It is shot through the eye of a half blind, crazy man, running through a world you may call ‘HELL’ or simply ‘LIFE’.”

Watch the video for ‘BLIND’ here:

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Although PETROL is clearly drawing inspiration from US doom classics such as SAINT VITUS as way as going all the way back to the British roots embodied by BLACK SABBATH, there are also moments that connect TAR POND with contemporary doom acts such as ELECTRIC WIZARD and ACID BATH. At the same time, TAR POND also exemplify the stubborn streak of Swiss metal that displays a fierce individuality and creative independence as outstanding acts such as CELTIC FROST, CORONER, and ZEAL & ARDOR easily attest.

Going back to the crossroads of time, everything seemed to change when Martin Ain, bass player of the iconic CELTIC FROST and one of the founding members of TAR POND passed away in October 2017. Before this tragic day, the Swiss legend had already recorded the debut album together with the other founding members, the former CORONER drummer and lyricist Marky Edelmann, and the renowned scratchboard artist and vocalist Thomas Ott.

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Watch: ‘Death Kisses Your Eyes’ by Dymna Lotva

Posted: 15 June 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Dymna Lotva unveil the highly symbolic video ‘Death Kisses Your Eyes’ (Смерць Цалуе Ў Вочы) as the second single taken from the Belarus duo’s forthcoming new album The Land under the Black Wings: Blood (Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў), which is slated for release on August 4, 2023.

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DYMNA LOTVA comment on ‘Death Kisses Your Eyes’ (Смерць Цалуе Ў Вочы): “This song is dedicated to the memory of the Belarusian protest activist Roman Bondarenko, who was killed by the Lukashenka regime”, vocalist Katsiaryna “Nokt Aeon” Mankevich states. “Roman’s last words were a message in the neighbours’ chat, ‘I’m going out’.

When unknown people arrived in his yard and began to destroy protest art and national symbols which were jointly created by the residents of nearby houses, he could not stand aside. When Roman Bondarenko left the house, he was brutally beaten and abducted by unidentified men wearing black clothes and masks. Roman died from his injuries the next day, on November 12, 2020. On the same day, the first demo of this song was mixed. The song’s lyrics which are carrying the words ‘those who wear midnight will take you away’ and ‘let’s go’ were too reminiscent of his story. The video clip was created by the photo artist Jay Flokker. It was not originally conceived to be shown alongside this song, but we felt it to be very appropriate as it is a strong reminder of the struggle of the  people of Belarus and their national symbol, our flag with its white, red, and white stripes.”

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Listen: ‘Wracked’ by Fen

Posted: 8 June 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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FEN release the dark monumental track ‘Wracked’ as the final single taken from the East Anglians’ forthcoming album Monuments to Absence, which is chalked up for release on July 7, 2023.

FEN comment on ‘Wracked’: “There are days when one is struck by a sense of such overwhelming black despair that it strikes almost as a physical force”, mastermind Frank “The Watcher” Allain writes. “We are literally wracked with sorrow, so overcome with the deepest sadness that it hits like a blow – staggering one backwards, grinding us to a halt. At such moments, one can only wait for the wave to subside, to retreat into the dark, yawning chasm of one’s own mind; and hope that the storm will pass as swiftly as possible. ‘Wracked’ speaks of those days.”

Listen to this nine-minute monster here:

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