SATYRICON Releases Video For 'To Your Brethren In The Dark'

Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON have released the official music video for the track “To Your Brethren In The Dark”. The song is taken from the band’s latest album, “Deep Calleth Upon Deep”, which was released on September 22 via Napalm Records. The disc was recorded in Oslo, Norway and Vancouver, Canada, during early 2017 and mixed together with revered studio guru Mike Fraser (who previously worked on SATYRICON‘s 2006 album, “Now, Diabolical”).

SATYRICON frontman Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven stated about the video: “I wanted ‘To Your Brethren In The Dark’ to be a director’s interpretation of the song rather than a band performance type of thing.

“Seeing what we do through the eyes of another artist is always interesting to me and just like the song, the video has become a little bit of a journey on its own.

“‘To Your Brethren In The Dark’ is definitely one of the flagship songs on the record. It is about emotion, our nature, the spirits, the autumn, the sombre and rainy days, those who we lost and the ones who we have not met yet. You could say it is a tribute to the sorrow in man and to the drama of the nature we surround ourselves with. A song for the dark towers of the past and those who will rise in the future. Pass the torch to your brethren in the dark.”

The “Deep Calleth Upon Deep” front cover is an obscure drawing from 1898 by perhaps the greatest Norwegian artist of all time, Edvard Munch.

SATYRICON drummer Kjetil-Vidar “Frost” Haraldstad told “The Jasta Show” that “Deep Calleth Upon Deep” “is an album that we have been really working a lot with for a long time. It’s all about getting the right expression for each and every song,” he explained.

“It has never been anything that we’ve discussed in the band, but at least I personally feel that every song has a life of its own, a very strong and unique identity,” he continued. “This album is really about giving life to those eight songs that constitute it.

“Like with every SATYRICON album, I guess it’s very, very diverse, and this is more true than ever with the new one,” he said. “In particular, when it comes to this identity bit, I feel the songs, even if they fit extremely well together in a compilation of songs, each and every one, it’s very, very different from the others — almost like human beings are different from each other.”

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net