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Nonexister release new music video for ‘Drowning In The Void’

NONEXISTER have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Drowning In The Void, is the brand new single from the Swiss band and follows on from their previous single, Your Pain Up My Veins, which was released back in April.

Regarding the lyrics in the new single, singer Nik Leuthold says, “the lyrics were written after the death of a good friend of mine. They describe the state of shock you fall into when you receive such a horrifying message. The shock throws you into a kind of surreal in-between world and you don’t understand anything anymore. You don’t feel any pain at first, but are left stunned, and the everyday actions you continue to perform seem absurd. You stand bewildered and disoriented outside of space and time, watching the world and oneself in wonder without any real connection to either. The only warmth you find lies in the memory of the lost person, the same memory that hurts so grievously.”

Bandmate Marco Neeser adds about the music, “we combined grounded guitars with electronic noises to create a tension that leads through the whole song. It meanders through the vastness of the desert, leading into a sweeping noisy soundscape before diving back into a deep, dark chorus. Musically, the song is based on a track of my former band DIVISION KENT. I showed the original version to Nik, who loved it, and the track inspired him immediately to write new lyrics and vocal lines. It was striking how this completely changed the atmosphere of the song and gave it a new profound meaning.”

“The video was a wonderful collaboration with director Justin Stoneham,” Nik continues. “He is not only a fantastic and award-winning director, but a wonderful team player. It was clear to me from the beginning that the in-between world would lead the visual direction. Meeting Justin was a huge stroke of luck, because apart from his skills, he knows these situations from his own personal experience and agrees on the image of an intermediate world as an interpretation of them.”

Watch the official music video for Drowning In The Void 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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