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This Gift Is A Curse release new music video for ‘Monuments for Dead Gods’

THIS GIFT IS A CURSE have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the song Monuments for Dead Gods, is taken from the band’s upcoming new album A Throne of Ash which is scheduled to be released in June this year.

Speaking about the track, the band says, Monuments for Dead Gods is a dark sludge metal epos that pays homage to the inner destructive forces that seem to inhabit all humankind. A never-ending turmoil that both drives man and in the end, lead him to his inevitable doom. Both on a personal level and as a collective, the lyrics tell about a protagonist who finds himself falling in a complete darkness, not really knowing how or why he ended up there. He then performs a ritual to get free from this captive state, uttering ancient words into the abyss as well as carving old forbidden symbols into the framework of reality. Doing so manages to awake a dead star, creating a black hole and setting in motion the destruction of the world.

“Life, he learns, was just a great mirage set inside a cold and crumbling inner universe. The ‘dead gods’ in this story are the former truths that ruled his life. Among the shattered ruins of his own mind and as everything he knows is breaking apart by the seams, he can finally see it clearly; there is no big truths nor lies, there is no end nor beginning – only a great void as we go into oblivion. The song and its underlying storyline is beautifully interpreted with great passion and perceptiveness by visual artist / video maker Chariot of Black Moth.”

Watch the official music video for Monuments for Dead Gods here: 

A Throne of Ash is set for release on June 14th via Season of Mist.

For more information on THIS GIFT IS A CURSE 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.