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Konvent release new music video for ‘Ropes Pt. II’

KONVENT have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Ropes Pt. II, is taken from the Copenhagen-based death/doom metallers’ upcoming new album Puritan Masochism which is scheduled to be released later this month.

Speaking about the song and its accompanying music video, the band says, Ropes Pt. II was the last song we wrote for the album. Our deadline was getting closer and we isolated ourselves in our rehearsal space during the weekend before going into the studio. We spent hours jamming to the main riff while the Danish Summer sun was baking outside, and in the end we managed to complete the song. It was actually inspired by our other song Ropes Pt. I which, at that time, didn’t have a title. Ropes Pt. I is about knowing someone who is going through a bad time and the powerlessness that comes with it. We thought it could be interesting to write a song from the other person’s point of view and connect the songs and their protagonists.

We chose to incorporate ropes in the titles because in these situations they can be a mean of help to climb out of the darkness or a means of suicide; we leave it up to the listener’s imagination. Regarding the video, we were all quite tired of the same old “metal music video recipe”. Actually, we didn’t really care for being in the video ourselves but found it way more interesting to play with smoke, lights and shadows. We got in touch with photographer Nicky de Silva via a common friend and he was very interested in diving into a darker side of the arts. We had a meeting with him and our visions clicked. He found the models for the video as well and we couldn’t be happier with the result!”

Watch the official music video for Ropes Pt. II here: 

Puritan Masochism is set for release on January 24th via Napalm Records.

For more information on KONVENT 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.