Anaal Nathrakh - The Age of Starlight Ends (LYRIC VIDEO)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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"The Age of Starlight Ends" from the "Endarkenment" album.
Video created by Vince Edwards for Metal Blade Records, based on his interpretation of the lyrics. Approved by the band on that basis.
Extremity has been Anaal Nathrakh‘s stock in trade for more than two decades, and with Endarkenment, they maintain their legacy of aural devastation. However, for all the furor they stir up, the duo have never been a two-dimensional entity, with a great deal of depth involved in everything that they do, and on many levels the new record is distinguished from its predecessors. “I think in terms of feel, it’s brighter, more open and direct than maybe we’ve been in the past,” states vocalist Dave Hunt. “Obviously I don’t mean it’s happy-go-lucky sounding, or suggestive of a sunny disposition. I mean something more like it burns with light rather than glowers with darkness. It’s coruscating.” The evolution since 2018′s towering A New Kind Of Horror has been personal and profound, and is very much in line with that experienced by many of their listeners. “Personally, I feel more cynical, more bitter, with a greater sense that the world is fucked, and is continually re-fucked by people who have no idea what they are doing. Musically, I think we’re more mature - not less frenetic, but better able to channel our energies where they’ll be most effective. That’s an ongoing process, you never finish growing into what you’re doing and being better able to push at the edges of what you can do. But we aren’t interested in evolving what we do, only how we do it. We remain unlike the vast majority of other bands in our sound, and we’re proud of what we do.”
With laying out a plan and then executing it not conducive to the kind of energetic, chaotic vigor Hunt and multi-instrumentalist Mick Kenney look for, the band follow ideas where they are taken by them and work spontaneously. Coining the phrase “riding a dragon” when recording - “making music with a sense that all you can do is hang on” - this very much embodies the tumultuous racket thrown up by Endarkenment, with its storms of blastbeat driven violence, frenzied riffing and panoramic choruses that suddenly change the direction of tracks. “We only really know what an album is like after we’ve finished it. Doing it any other way just wouldn’t be right for us.” One thing that was very clear to the band was the album’s title and how prescient it is in current times, standing as the opposite of the Enlightenment, a movement that went against superstition and ignorance. Writing in the album’s liner notes, Hunt says: “There has been, and continues to be, increasingly widespread rejection of Enlightenment-style values such as rationalism, skepticism, the rejection of faith in favour of judgements dependent on empirically verifiable phenomena and so on. There are local versions in many places, but in our native UK, this was summed up by politician/sinister gnome Michael Gove’s famous claim that we’ve ‘had enough of experts’. Thus we enter the age of endarkenment.” With this as an overarching theme, Hunt, one of the more intellectual lyricists in contemporary metal, penned the lyrics to the record, exploring a diverse range of subject areas and looking in often uncomfortable directions.
The music was tracked entirely in Kenney’s studio in southern California while the vocals were laid down in an industrial estate in Birmingham, UK, in a unit just down the corridor from where an S&M porn was being filmed. “It occurred to me not long ago that we haven’t recorded together at the same place twice for ten years or more, and I think part of the reason for that is that is that the place itself doesn’t really affect us. It changes the experience of actually doing it in terms of being there in person, obviously, but it doesn’t really make any difference to the way we work together. Dedicated studios, expensive gear, acoustically isolated live rooms and so on - they’re all great, I’m sure, but give us a quiet room with a lightbulb, a laptop and a shitty mic and we’ll still do basically the same thing. The music and the atmosphere and the inspiration are in us, not in places or pieces of equipment.”
#anaalnathrakh #endarkenment
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If you want a picture of the future imagine a lyric video from Anaal Nathrakh stamping on the human mind forever...
Brilliant comment. Needs way more likes, I estimate 1984 likes should be fitting.
Not everyone knows Orwell that well.
@@tikhongilson3770 They should.
@@tikhongilson3770 no need. AN uses this quote in the beginning of the song "Do not speak"
AN making a lyrics video?! the end is near guys
2020 ;)
We were just as surprised as you are!
Indeed
Metal Blade Records Mick said you guys made the video
It's promotional material
Them: You can't mix black metal with power metal, death metal and industrial!
Anaal Nathrakh: Hold my beer....
They've been doing it since their second album, more or less. All the clean singing parts have a strong heavy/power feel.
@@oliverdittmann6710 ye I really don't hear any black metal in this track
These guys are just in the league of their own, absolutely phenomenal!
Anaal Nathrakh are about to release the most fitting soundtrack for 2020, it's insane how this song and Endarkement simply describe the world's state as it is currently with such accuracy
my thoughts exactly
Exactly. Looking at it as it is, it's apocalyptic as hell but considering the state that the world is in right now, it reflects an undoubtedly realistic view of the conditions we're currently living in. Like if you saw this video in 2018, you'd think "What are they talking about? Who wrote this? Apocalypse as a theme is so over done." but looking at it right now you realize that we're living in sort of an apocalypse with marketing, economy, general well-being and everything being endangered.
We'll get through it though, we've been in similar situations before but nowadays the negative information from different sources move so fast and reaches everyone that it feels like everything has gone to shit. Take this with a grain of salt but the internet has really removed a barrier that protected us before; not knowing everything.
@@Shadowsdeity The fact that you and me, two complete strangers from different parts of the world, recognize the problem and comprehend its consequences, is pretty much positive. Realization is the first step towards finding a solution. I don't know if we will find one, but we need to find more people that realize the current state they live in and take care of them, treat them well and altogether, we shall try and fix things in our own personal way. Hopes die last and I want to keep hoping. Take good care bro, stay safe
Mankind has been destroying the Earth as an inhabitable planet for centuries. The apocalypse is in slow motion, but if things don't change, mankind will eventually make life impossible on Earth.
@@After9waves Really well said, we gotta realize the problems and work towards solving them, first on an individual level and then hopefully on a global level.
And thanks, best of luck to you too.
That Mr. Creosote line was genius.
it felt so out of place with the tone... but yeah it is a good line
My thoughts exactly!
Made me love them a thousand times more
Not to mention the "waffer-thin mint"
Werd. Perfect use of the character for this song and video
Finally we can sing along!
I have no words. AN never disappoints. Now we have a lyric video? I’m beyond ecstatic. The song is in-fucking-real. I’m blown away.
OMG, lyrics for an Anaal Nathrakh song? Am I dreaming?
Shenanigans aside, they are very powerful lyrics, and the union between them and the video is very poignant. Gotta love AA. Gotta love 'em A LOT.
I love the melodic approach they've taken on this. His cleans sound awesome.
I found these guys when they released A New Kind Of Horror. I cannot get enough of them. There are so many other albums to soak up. This new track together with Endarkenment absolutely rocks. I cannot wait for the full album. Well done.
My dude go back to hell is empty all the devils are here see what you missed
@@unrussleablejimmies4428 Awesome. I love The Final Absolution on that album. Its relentless. Thanks for the recommendation 👍
Eschaton is probably still my favourite only because that was their newest of the time and the one I found them on, but pretty much everything except Passions has been great.
Love it! Bonus points for the pronounciation of 'wafer' haha, love that Python reference. Again, another epic track with a big chorus, Dave's cleans get better and better. Still find people saying 'power metal' hilarious whenever an extreme band inserts something melodic into a song. If you know Nathrakh well you will know they believe extremity comes in many forms like subject matter and lyrics, and not just the BPM of a song. As much as I think it's important to have blast-filled hellfire songs when you're a band like Nathrakh, variation in extreme metal is far more interesting. Really look into the subject matter of their songs and you will get what they are about. They are a very mature band that stand up for the oppressed and reveal the crap the world throws at us all. Cant wait to write the review!
Aw, fuck your essay. It's not what it was. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I enjoy it, I don't. The reason why I would listen for AN older albums was sheer brutality. That's gone now, not saying it's good or bad, just that this album is at the bottom of the list for me. Don't need to get offended just because people don't like it.
I always hate this argument. "Just see the lyrics...". It's not poetry. Music must be good too, and it isn't.
@@smurfk2144 i didnt get offended. i stated my point. you are the one taking offence with fact i like the song. was this necessary?
@@smurfk2144 bruh, who asked?
Python's reference was the cherry on the top.
I really like this Era of Anaal Nathrakh. Discovered them a couple years ago. Love this
In the constellation of the black widow will never be topped
@@rippindrummer666 sorry bro but this is subjective
@@rippindrummer666 I personally think Vanitas is their best album. Each to their own
I regret laugh reacting to Mick Kenney's facebook comment when he told there would be a lyric video.
Ladies and Gents. Pigs & Swine.
The album of the year is only a month away.
A perfect soundtrack for the upcoming armageddon at the end of this year.
I can't wait anymore!
The entire album is a bone crushing atmospheric, unrelenting
devastating disease eroding the earth to dust and bones.
Paradise Lost fans: Damn, it's hard to even cope with all of the changes my band does. Death, doom, gothic, with grunt or without and even synth pop. Then again Paradise Lost did a total flip and even got heavier. How about your favorite?
AN fans: I hear ya dude, we need to be flexible. It's....it's just a lot to take in. Our band just did a Lyric video!
*Laughs in Ulver*
@@tarnetskygge This is probably the best fucking answer in the whole history of youtube. I am fucking happy and angry at the same time because I only entered to write the same and it was already written. Fuck!, probs to you.
Nathrakh Lyric Research: Am I a joke to you?
Haha - we still have a lot of fun and definitely don't mind being gifted something like this. =P
@@justinkroboth360 I still believe we're mostly wrong anyway :D
Is there such a thing? Where does it exist?
@@MetalTrabant facebook^^
Hmm...too bad I deleted every trace of that malware (Facebook) from all my devices. It would be nice if there was also a web page or some other kind of alternative.
An Anaal Nathrakh *LYRIC* video?! Either this will be some kind of trolling... or 2020 just got infinitely better
Edit: It's the latter! Fuck yeah!
Отлично, удивила лирика впервые за столько лет! Жёсткий год на этот раз нам достался, но с другой стороны такие релизы впереди..!
the band's specialty is aggressive riffs make beautiful melody over all part and vocalist singing emotional melody in chorus．
🤘🏻
Self approbation xD
All of your acts are cool xd.
This is so freakin' amazing! Annal Nathrakh delivering the sound of an era, this era! All hail these guys because this is quite a way to tear down the wall which shelters us from the storm!
Despite hearing "A thousand cocks... begin to grow..." every time, i still manage to take this song seriously. That's how good it is.
I never thought I would live long enough to see Anaal Nathrakh making a lyric video. Damn, dude, THIS is good shit.
And I thought I couldn't possibly love Anaal Nathrakh any more... I can't wait for the album. So good
I'm scared af. Back on October Cattle Decapitation released "bring back the plague"; some months later and we know how the story goes. Now this. It reminds me of this ted talk called "if you want to know the future ask a metalhead". It's accurate but still scary. Great song btw 🤘🏻
That's a thing?! Okay, best discovery of the year for me.
Shit man I discovered your ted talk, that is this right? ua-cam.com/video/TZ9JpKsiCZw/v-deo.html
@@shirokaminokageyami Yeah, that's the one
If you want to know the future ask the bible. It has been accurate over thousands of years. And it is completely accurate for the time we are living in. The birth pains of the great tribulation. This is just the beginning of sorrows. The worst time of human history is directly before us and people laugh and drink and eat and marry, but they don't repent, they don't fear God. They will.
Björn, I would hope it'd be pretty obvious that of all groups, the one made of rebels and outcasts is not the one to preach at. Guess that was a poor assumption on my part.
I seriously believe these guys can't write a bad song. Another level reached. Love it
Only AN could write a line like "a thousand cocks" and still be taken seriously.
Brojob does it too
Its your moms favorite part of the song...
@@joshuawoodby7093 Edge kid is being edgy, what a surprise.
@@gregozymandias3799 he did say taken seriously
@@tylerstanley578
Whaaaat !?!? 😂
I just randomly yelled "a thousand cocks" in my class. Didn't meant to do it, but glad I did.
BEGIN TO GROW!!
And yet we still deny a thousand likes, given to hoes
I've been listening to this band since early 2006, and I've been an avid fan ever since I first heard Codex. This album is just fucking bonkers good. The last couple seemed to me to lose a little bit of the edge, but this one ramps ot right back up. Just finished listening to it in its entirety, and then checked out another lyric video (not official), and this one. So fucking good, man. Dave, if you happen to be reading this by some slim chance, keep up the great fucking work, man. Every single album has been a blast to listen to.
2020 really needs an Anaal Nathrakh album.
They fucking did it again.
Imagine that moment...when i ride my car and from radio listen new AN so much loud, than everybody around listening with me.
their songs only get better and better
This track is amazingly beautiful!
If this is what the apocalypse is going to sound like, bring it on!
Thanks a lot
This track made my day
Cant wait for the complete album
Every day waking up in 2020 it's something new that blows my mind. Everyday I'm like what's it gonna be today we'll this was today's a lyrics video!
i really wish AN all the energy to create an outstanding album!
Isnt the Pyrrhic Victory box at 2:11 from Total War Warhammer?
Yes
I wish YT had a button to play this on a never ending loop.
right click, loop
@@MEOW-dm6og Thanks, every day is a day for learning something useful.
This is mindbogglingly addictive.
Finally! Such a brilliant tune👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Вот это сюрприз!
I'm so excited for this album
I like this, great song and a solid dose of reality to boot.
Only 103k views in 3 months, absolutely shameful. This is criminally underrated. Such a soundscape.
Wonderfvll two songs from new album....SLAVA ANAAL!!!! ⚔
Это шедевр 👍
An AN lyric video?!
Wat.
Track is a ripper though!
Well good!
The best contribution for this fucking year ...
YYYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*The age of lyric speculation ends!*
Time to see if I heard correctly!
Their every Song is a masterpiece.
Can't tell you how happy it makes me to see lyrics. This is top-quality and extremely relevant. I want more.
Hard to believe it's been 16 years since I picked up Domine Non Es Dignus. Even crazier to see how these guys have progressed over the years.
Шикарно
POWERFUL BAND PERFECT WORK
GREAT VIDEO
i'm so glad i got to see this band live, i love them
a new genre of metal has just emerged
I needed this to lift my spirit today. Thanks to all involved.
The glorious return of Kenneys guitar solos
the cleans are gorgeous. :)
They decided on this song for their first lyric video because they wanted to show off that Monty Python reference.
Best reference. And this album has a lot.
Blood Mountain is a great record, one of my favorites by Mastodon
I can finally rest in peace that I saw a lyric video of AN
Does Anaal Nathrakh know that you made a lyric video for one of their songs? How could that happen 🤷♂️ Anyways: great song!
OMG, this is the first I'm able to see the lyrics of one of their tracks. Today is a good day.
The best rap song ever
Going to be one of the albums of the year.
Ome of the best songs ever
Love this Melodies, the DeathAngels Sing and the lovely Lyrics
Anaal Nathrakh fuck my soul again... and i love it😐🤘
Lethal *AND* diabolic. I like it.
This albums gonna be soo good
This band only gets better, still haven’t heard a track that I don’t like! This is genius and heavy as fuck! Good shit boys! I am thoroughly enjoying the clean vocals being a clean vocalist myself. But I still love to hear those grotesque vocals. GREAT SHIT
I can't stop listening this fucking awesome
This Album will fck all the othe new releases until death. It will be a become a great masterpiece of metal this year. I am sure.
Impressive as always sirs.
I just noticed, the graphics at 2:12, right above the lyrics for the Pyrrhic Victory part is from Total War: Warhammer.
Anaal nathrakh... ihr werdet immer besser. Vocals great.
I mainly came to see if all comments are turned off or just Six Feet Under's. This both answered my question and provided great entertainment.
Amazing Anaal 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
И чего я такой влюблённый в вас 😍
Been waiting for this ♨🎧
Purely 2021 the year of REVELATIONS ! We all see the darkness we try to avoid all these years.
Still love this!!!
The solos sound like “rival schools”
damn, didn't expect this one to be that addictive.
what a song!
NICE.....
Но я живу, не видя дня
Во мраке бесконечной ночи
И нет надежды у меня
В гробу смыкаю свои очи.
украли у КиШа песню?)))
Just the perfect Soundtrack to the current state. 🤘
The stars in the sky are the fallen angels trapped in the firmament. When the sky falls, they will be unleashed.
Самое то перед сном
Another banger
🤘
These guys called our current political landscape YEARS ago.... I'll never forget finding out about these guys back when I was in high school and I immediately became obsessed with them, their lyrics and sound. The lyrics litteraly spoke of pure corruption hidden in plain sight, spoke on fake news, spoke on voter fraud and spoke on how fucking moronic the masses have become due to voluntarily being told how to feel, what to be upset about and pretty much welcome communism with open arms. The lyrics honestly opened my eyes unintentionally to tons of great resources that helped me see through all the bullshit at that age. I could go on and on about this honestly but no one will probably even read this lol.
Endarkenment is literally just orange man bad though lol
@@spicymeatballs2thespicening Really? I haven't seen any interviews or anything like that with him indicating such... Any sources you can point me towards?
This is the perfect anthem of 2020.
This is pretty deep.
Monty Python The Meaning of Life reference - nice \m/