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Allegaeon release new music video for ‘In Flanders Fields’

ALLEGAEON have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track In Flanders Fields, is taken from the Colorado-based technical death metal band’s latest single, Concerto in Dm, which was released back in December.

Speaking about the song and its accompanying music video, guitarist Greg Burgess says, “in 1915, Canadian poet and military doctor Major John McCrae lost one of his best friends to a German artillery shell, during the second battle of Ypres. Inspired by grief, McCrae began the first draft of In Flanders Fields. Three years afterwards, the poem had such an impact, people started honoring soldiers by wearing poppies on their lapels.

Being from the US, I was unaware of this poem and tradition, until we were on tour in Canada with NE OBLIVISCARIS in 2018. After being stranded by an ice storm in Ottawa, I was introduced to this poem and it struck a chord with me – inevitably this piece of the same name followed. As for the video – do we really need another classical video set in a beautiful place, having the performer with eyes closed perform? Probably not. Do we need a video where we have the juxtaposition of a classical guitarist in a beautiful place, while repping tech death? Survey says…why not!”

Watch the official music video for In Flanders Fields here: 

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James Weaver

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