OBSIDIAN KINGDOM in cooperation with audio-visual project This Is Not are now releasing a beautiful video clip for an acoustic version of the song “Black Swan”. The original track has been released on the eclectic Spaniards’ latest full-length ‘A Year With No Summer’.
The video is exclusively premiered by the official media partners listed below.
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM explain: “We are proud to have been invited to perform at the first of the ‘This Is Not’ session – an audio-visual project that strives to capture the alternative side of diverse music performers, portraying them in the context of different emblematic cultural spaces. An unprecedented experience with a cinematic and intimate perspective.
The first chapter of this musical journey features us in the Dome and Oval Room of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona, an architectonic jewel built for the International Exhibition of 1929 with an unique performance that takes place in one of the most symbolic spaces of the city.
The This Is Not project is directed by Ruth Zapater, an audio-visual artist based in Barcelona who has been working in the field of photography since 2009. All of her work is music-related. Official photographer for various festivals and concerts by national and international groups, she currently works as a cinematographer at Iced Dawn Films.”
Video Credits
THIS IS NOT – Obsidian Kingdom
Eaten Roll I and Rider G Omega play ‘Black Swan’ from ‘A Year With No Summer’ at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona, June 2016.
Directed & Produced by Ruth Zapater
Direction of Photography: Ruth Zapater Focus & Second camera: Joan Tous Edited by Ruth Zapater
Location Sound: Pol Fontanals Mixing & Mastering: ArcticWave Studio by Carlos Dueñas
Production manager: Víctor Gómez Make up: Sofía Rivero
Special thanks to: Charo Canal Esteban Portero Cultural Dogs Sandra Formatger Paula Sánchez-Valverde
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM are performing in support of their current full-length ‘A Year With No Summer’, which is streaming in full at Bandcamp
Regarding ‘A Year With No Summer’, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM commented: “Our new album ‘A Year With No Summer’ is a spiked cocktail of city spleen, conspiranoia and personal trauma; blue like the stagnant water in the pool of a marooned holiday resort and heavy like the silence after the next radiant apocalypse.”
Artwork and track list of ‘A Year With No Summer’ can be viewed below in the limited Digipak version.
Tracklisting 1. A Year With No Summer 2. 10th April 3. Darkness 4. The Kandinsky Group 5. The Polyarnik 6. Black Swan 7. Away / Absent
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM have been cunningly avoiding easy categorisation since their inception in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, Spain, where the band was formed in 2005.
Their sophomore album ‘A Year With No Summer’ is now adding to the eclectic puzzle and a big step in an continuing evolution. To say that the Catalans move further away from their roots in extreme metal and towards a more progressive sound is equally correct as misleading. There are still burning guitars and harsh riffing to be found, yet there is also simply much more of everything else. Contrasts, shifts, and raw emotions created and guided by intricate rhythm patterns, electronic tapestries as well as highlights are combined into a carefully composed musical painting of monumental dimensions. There are hints of the epic approach offered by such influences as PINK FLOYD and MARILLION, yet OBSIDIAN KINGDOM use a far darker range of colours on their pallet. There is a constant sense of drowning, darkness and depression threading through ‘A Year With No Summer’, which binds the wide stylistic range offered by its diverse song material together.
When the Catalan newcomers self-released their debut full-length ‘Mantiis – An Agony in Fourteen Bites’ in 2012, the 500 copies they had pressed sold out in a blink of an eye. Their conceptual album on a violent crime and its dramatic repercussions features a single song divided into fourteen tracks, which flow through different genres. ‘Mantiis’ progressive character and post-modern approach set against extreme metal prefigures the even larger step now taken by ‘A Year With No Summer’
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM once again follow new paths in an untiring search for their own unique expression unhindered by conventions or style boundaries. This is a record to get your headphones on and listen with diligence to be rewarded with the pleasure of finding great music off those tracks already taken too many times before.
Current line-up Rider G Omega: guitars and vocals Ojete Mordaza II: drums Seerborn Ape Tot: keys Eaten Roll I: guitars Om Rex Orale: bass
Guest vocals Attila Csihar (MAYHEM) on “The Kandinsky Group” Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg (ULVER) on “10th April”
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