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Nonexister release new music video for ‘What A Lie’

NONEXISTER have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track What A Lie, is taken from the Swiss alt/industrial metal band’s debut albums, Demons, which was released back in March, via self-release.

Speaking about the song, and its accompanying new music video, vocalist Nik Leuthold says, What A Lie is on the first, direct layer a song about and against the robber barons of our time. It’s about people who do everything for their own profit without any ethical boundaries. It’s about people who exploit others and are even proud of it. So, at first glance and first listen, it talks about ruthless capitalists in high positions in the economy.

But, as often in my lyrics, I am interested in the layers below, in the understanding of the phenomenon as such, in revealing the deeper structures of it, and not only in accusing one simple thing, like the evil robber baron capitalist. And the phenomenon is not at all exclusively bound to capitalism or in general to one certain sector of society or to one system. The way ruthless people in power pursue their goals is very similar in structure, no matter if they use a large corporation for it, a religion, or something else.

And often, the protagonists as well are not bound to a certain system or sector and use several of them, even meander between them. Figures like Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump are and have been active in the legal economy, in organized crime and in politics at the same time and use connections to powerful religious circles as well. Vladimir Putin is still an imperialist Soviet at heart, but also a ruthless capitalist and a godfather of organized crime and he has very good relations with the patriarch of the Russian orthodox church.

But no matter if they do meander between roles or if they stick to one role like the CEO of a big corporation or the leader of a certain religious cult, they all work in a similar way.”

Watch the official music video for What A Lie here: 

For more information on NONEXISTER like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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