Mental Cruelty release new music video for ‘Zwielicht/Symphony Of A Dying Star’
MENTAL CRUELTY have released a brand new music video!
The new music video, for the tracks Zwielicht and Symphony Of A Dying Star, is the brand new double single from the German deathcore band and marks their first new music since 2021’s A Hill To Die Upon. The new double single marks the first new music with new vocalist Lukas Nicolai [of SUN EATER (formerly known as IMPALE)].
Speaking about the new songs, the band says, “the first song Zwielicht (old German for twilight), which serves as the intro, is a poem written by Marvin (guitars) and it’s about the demon called depression that slowly creeps into your body to a point where it takes full control over your life. The poem comes from a very personal place and serves as a way of letting go and processing hard and dark stages of life in the past. Musically, the song is heavily inspired by classic Nordic folk songs and was recorded with ancient instruments that you wouldn’t quite expect in this kind of music.
Symphony Of A Dying Star serves as the continuation of Zwielicht musically as well as lyrically. We accompany a wanderer on his journey through a winter landscape. All life around him seems to be trapped in hibernation and eternal ice while a surreal feeling of deafness creeps up on him. The winter itself serves as a metaphor for loneliness, the end of all things and the transience of life. At some point, all things start to fade away and it is the fate that will overtake us all once when standing on the threshold between life and death. The whole concept of this two-track song is about letting things go and die to make place for a new start and a new beginning. We couldn’t quite play shows and work on new music as we wanted to the last two years due to the pandemic and having to find a new vocalist, so we wanted to make a cut and a new beginning.”
Watch the official music video for Zwielicht/Symphony Of A Dying Star here:
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