Earthside release new music video for ‘All We Knew and Ever Loved’
EARTHSIDE have released a new music video!
The new music video, for the track All We Knew and Ever Loved, is the brand new single from the cinematic rock band and is their first new music for six years.
The new song from EARTHSIDE features a guest appearance from LEPROUS drummer Baard Kolstad and the song’s accompanying stunning animated video was directed by Maxime Tiberghien & Sylvain Favre, renown for GOJIRA‘s Another World music video.
“Humans are the only beings that knowingly destroy themselves,” keyboardist and the piece’s composer Frank Sacramone says. “Animals don’t have a developed consciousness like we do, or a sense of right or wrong, but All We Knew and Ever Loved will be gone as we keep perpetuating the same poor decision-making as a species – the same societal structures, economic norms, same use of power. Day by day, we’re beginning to see very real consequences to these willful abuses on a scale we don’t fully comprehend.”
Watch the official animated music video for All We Knew and Ever Loved here:
Through the positively apocalyptic sounds of one of the largest pipe organs in the world (recorded at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles) and an mix courtesy of Randy Staub, known for mixing METALLICA’s legendary symphonic live album, S&M, the effect intends to be just not merely devastating; but inescapable.
“A piece of art that resonated strongly with us during the writing and recording of both All We Knew and Ever Loved and the new album, was a painting called Duelo a Garrotazos or Fight with Cudgels by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya,” Shanbrom says. “From the time I was exposed to Goya’s Black Paintings – a series of extremely dark meditations on human nature – I’ve been obsessed with them, and the uncanny message of Duelo felt immediately timely and haunting in its relevance to the current day.”
The scene which Shanbrom references depicts two men swinging at each other with full abandon as a far more threatening force, the surrounding quicksand, slowly consumes their lower bodies. “This vindictive pettiness that we see all around us in our politics, our arguments, and daily interactions is something universal and terrifying in human nature, and as Frank was composing this song, I was wondering if there was a way we could represent that complex and poignant scene in the actual music. Through a very special collaboration, I think we did it.”
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