Hexvessel release new music video for ‘Phaedra’

HEXVESSEL have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Phaedra, is taken from the band’s upcoming new album Kindred which is scheduled to be released in April this year.

Brought to screen by Canadian film-maker Justin Oakey (who has previously collaborated with ULVER), Phaedra is the fifth time the band has collaborated with this Newfoundland-based director. Justin Oakey directed the videos for I Am The Ritual and Sacred Marriage. Mat McNerney & Kimmo Helén created the soundtrack to the short movie The World Is Burning (2013) and also the full-length feature film A Fire In The Cold Season (2019).

Central to the Roman epic tale of Phaedra, with it’s Greek tragedy, both song and video include themes on the law of nature that governs human behaviour, our animal spirit; the idea that through death and rebirth we restore the cosmic order.  Speaking about the song, singer/songwriter Mat McNerney says, “in this song, Phaedra is my totem heroine, icon of the human spirit. We are wild animals and our place within this universe is to live and die according to nature’s rules. It’s no mistake either that Phaedra is also mentioned in two of the greatest transcendent musical works of all time; Lee Hazlewood’s Some Velvet Morning and TANGERINE DREAM’s Phaedra album. Phaedra is at the deep heart of Kindred, and she is both divine and human decorated with blood. The only divine law that is not flawed is that we all must return to nature. We all must die!”

Watch the official music video for Phaedra here: 

Kindred is set for release on April 17th via Svart Records.

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