Pain of Salvation release new music video for ‘Panther’

PAIN OF SALVATION have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Panther, is the title track from the band’s upcoming new album which is scheduled to be released later this month.

Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Daniel Gildenlöw from the band says, “of course we need to introduce you to the title track of our coming album. Panther. In many ways, the lyrics and concept of the Panther album have grown out sideways from our previous album In The Passing Light Of Day – branching out like a new tree from the stem, specifically from the track Full Throttle Tribe. Another trigger for the album was the chorus of the song Panther:

“How does it feel to be you?” she once asked me
I said “I feel like a panther trapped in a Dog’s world”

Panther is an album with many layers, but at the heart of it you will find my lifelong struggle to calibrate my interface towards mankind, trying to calculate the offset to a species that I have on some levels always felt myself estranged to. A feeling I think many can relate to. This is depicted in the title track, which is one of the album’s corner stones. Storm-born, lull-bred, semi-tamed – we seem to be the same, but I pretend…

The work on this song was intense, almost feverish, and I felt obligated to let it become what it wanted to become, without fear or prejudice. This pushed me into very specific sounds and approaches. You may not think it, but this song is in fact among the most guitar dense tracks in the history of the band. There are 16 tracks of guitars in this song. Yep. Only, many of them may sound different to what you are used to. What you might think are loops are actually played guitars. I have always felt that music is at its best when it comes from a source of passion, frustration, courage and curiosity. That has been, and will always be, my northern star in creativity. Panther is all those things. I was attracted to hard rock and metal as a kid because it sounded new, it sounded brave and it was pushing things, restlessly being on a journey to somewhere. If metal is to make any sense to me, it needs to keep pushing and keep being brave. And progressive music needs to keep progressing. Damn, maybe this sounds too pretentious, forget it, just step on the rollercoaster and ride with us! Find your inner panther…”

Watch the official music video for Panther here: 

Panther is set for release on August 28th via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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