Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2020
- Order at: www.metalblade.com/anaalnathrakh
The title track from Anaal Nathrakh's "Endarkenment" album.
CREDITS:
Directed and Edited : David Brodsky for MyGoodEye ( MyGoodEye)
Producers : David Brodsky and David Hunt
Illustrator : Tim Kellen
Animation : Tim Kellen and David Brodsky
Director of Photography : Laura Johnson
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
The moment you realize the guy doing all the instrumental parts on this track is now the most popular phonk producer.
Yeah. It's quite weird how he changed his direction. But his phonk is... Something!
@@vovancho Indeed (for both your affirmations)!
I'm still hoping he'll take advantage of his fame to introduce Anaal Nathrakh and extreme metal to an extremely larger audience, but eh, guess is just a personal dream. XD
wtf
im dissociating now
Whaaat ??? I just checked, it's absolutely true he is Kordhell ! I've been listening to AN for almost a decade now, and I've been in love with Kordhell's tunes since I discovered them. But I was NOT expecting him to be Mick
Kordhell is smart, he became the most popular Phonk producer by having this unique style, you can feel his metal inspiration on his Phonks, the mixing, the construction, also he have phonk with metal, called Memphis Doom (And is dope af)
Their clean vocals never cease to amaze me. This band always surprises me in the best ways.
Looks like 2020 has an official soundtrack, boys.
a lot of great artist have been putting out great music for the great collapse
You know what they say... When a great decline happens, great arts appear.
Way she goes, boys.
@Brian Kimboll There would be always "collapses" as long as humanity exists, some of then accidental, some others not that much. ;)
@@Sammael66685 I agree with u both, peace and chaos is ying and yang of life
[Verse 1:]
As one we march along
Into nauseating neglect
Like all good swine we deserve our feed
Are we not yet oblivious to your words?
[Pre-Chorus:]
By the end we’ll beg
Chorus:
Take what small comfort there may be left
Seize what you love and damn all the rest
Panem, circenses, credulous descent
A Gadarene charge into endarkenment
Endarkenment
Endarkenment
[Verse 2:]
Why ask questions now?
We know all we need to know (nothing)
Fuck you if you think I am wrong
The answers I have are all the answers I need
[Pre-Chorus:]
By the end we’ll beg
[Chorus:]
Take what small comfort there may be left
Seize what you love and damn all the rest
Panem, circenses, credulous descent
A Gadarene charge into endarkenment
Endarkenment
Endarkenment
[Bridge:]
No light
No pain
No fear
The demon is real
By the end we’ll beg
For someone to take away the light
[Chorus:]
Take what small comfort there may be left
Seize what you love and damn all the rest
Panem, circenses, credulous descent
A Gadarene charge into endarkenment
[Outro]
With boulders on shoulder
No answers to find
Retreat to dust with no walls to climb
Nothing to reach for
Death of the mind
Fuck all salvation
Truth is a lie
THANK YOU SO MOTHERFUCKING MUCH!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: These are not the official lyrics, but what the community has pieced together and so some of the lines might be wrong. I still believe that the outro is still not quite accurate.
@@swankykoala4836 Sounds pretty spot on to me. What part of the outro sounds off to you?
Dude, good work on lyrics, but i think there more "A gathering charge" then "A Gadarene charge".
@@Bonkoira Ahh, here's the Trump supporter comments I was assuming I would see more of here. Amazing.
This sounds so beautiful it almost made me cry.
I'm sure I'll cry once I see them do this live
To me it gime me energy. Too much I would say.
So catchy, so intense, so powerful, so addictive, so true... This has been playing on and on for a while now...
Best use of “clean” vocals I’ve heard in a while.
in a while? Ever, I would say.
Best use of clean vocals in an extreme metal song period. They are superb.
Almost sounds like Speed Strid?
With the username power invested in me, by the West Coast Council of naming convention, I award you with the best username. I also agree with your existing comment.
He has a message he wants you to understand here.
Clean vocals getting better and better!
There's nothing clean about them really
@@codenamescarletfox they are clean
You never listened to "Do Not Speak" from 2004?
@@TheHypernaught this sounds exactly like that album
@@codenamescarletfox They are clean. Not clean Vocals that sound like clean vocals are the cleanish vocals from cattle decap
Holy shit the cleans are awesome
Thumbs up for that name and profile pic. One of the greatest albums of all time by one of the greatest bands of all time
@@someonewithandwithoutthoug3414 Thanks! CoL is awesome!
AMAZING
That chorus with the clean vocals and fast paced guitar and drums gives me Dragonforce vibes
This chorus is so close to perfection. Hope I'm not listening this to death until the record comes out...
This is definitely ranking up there with "Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion", "Submission Is for the Weak", "Blood Eagles Carved on the Backs of Innocents", and "Der Holle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen" as my favorite Anaal Nathrakh tracks. Been a fan since their In The Constellation of the Black Widow album and have never been disappointed. \m/
NOTHING beats BECOTBOI.
Don't forget "The One Thing Needful"
Such an awesome song as well...
Welcome back. I know its not your first time listening to this.
You right
more like 200th time, and that's not an exaggeration
Once every day until they release the whole album!
@@deathUUK once a day until it ceases to be the most accurate musical description of life on Earth right now.
It is.
I can't think of anything more fitting to 2020 than a new Anaal Nathrakh album. Along with new Napalm Death and Cytotoxin, my most anticipated albums for this messed up year.
ULCERATE
DARK FORTRESS
VREDEHAMMER
KVAEN
ENSIFERUM
Cytotoxin is the best yet so far. Everything about it is insane especially the skins
I'm glad some people here seem to know Cytotoxin. Hope they become a lot more popular than they are these days. Best death metal band, in my opinion.
Don't forget the new Igorrr Album. But new stuff from Anaal Nathrakh is every time a reason to be happy
Thank you so much for your support guys! It's sick to see our band's name in this comment section. Btw, really digging Anaal Nathrakh's new song \m/
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Dat Dave Hunt brows raising is pretty pleasing. 😂
Came to say this LOL cheeky bastard ain't he?
His clean vocals have definitely improved
Hes always been on point. I played a gig once in Birmingham with an old band and the "headline" act was a metal karaoke and Dave sang either a King Diamond or Mercyful Fate song note perfect.
He's always been really good. They've been on metal blade for quite some time and even on their first metal blade album - desideratum his cleans were amazing
He always had an amazing clean voice. I really hope that this can be an album with more clean vocal by Vitriol
cannot improve perfect
you must be smoking crack
Anaal Nathrakh knows how to use clean vocals and not loose anything of power and brutality. Only them and Cattle Decapitation can do it like this.
Cattle has a unique clean I don't know if I like or not yet
I almost forget how great Dave's clean vocal is, when he's not being tortured :D
My soul wasn't ready for that chorus, holy fuck....
What if whole 2020 is just a trailer of new Anaal Nathrakh album?
What if the Anaal Nathrakh album is just a trailer of 2021-2024 years?
@@dkarcz Now when we are in 2024, I can't help but ask: were you so specific because you knew that there will be no 2025?
my ears are already trained to enjoy some Anaal Nathrakh
Fun fact: KORDHELL IS IN THIS BAND AND 3 OTHER METAL BANDS AND WORKS WITH MAJOR METAL ARTISTS, WHAT?!??!
This is why i like Extreme Metal ..... That band makes sure to match everything between growls/screaming/clean vocals in a very brutal way ..... I happy that i discovered this band 2 years before
This awesome song absolutely reflects our "Brawe New World". Thank you very much! I hope you'll print out a t-shirt with this text "Disagreement is Treason" I need it! Good dying for 2020!
The quote that is from is well worth a read, Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco. www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
sounds like a mix between "in the constellation..." and "vanitas".
awesome!!
More passion than vanitas I'd say. Killer track
Wouldnt really put this anywhere near those 2, it's good but constellation and vanitas are god tier.
this has to be one of the most "legible" songs since "so be it!" i like that dave had something to say about the current direction of the world so he made sure you heard it! lets go nathrakh!
Definitely a powerful statement, it's my favourite song released this year so far.
@@gordo970 I do a continually updated playlist on Spotify each year and I realize that I've listened to a surprising amount of pop and very little metal this year haha (The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Rina Sawayama, MisterWives, mxmtoon etc etc.) But yup, this song flies to #1, it will be really fucking hard to top. Near perfection
Safe to say they aren't maga fans and that's more than fine with me because stupidity culture doesn't need more metalheads in it... I can barely contain my disappointment everytime I see my metal brothers drinking the coolaid (or bleach in this case).
Mmmmm.... that Chorus reminds me of "Between Shit and Piss We Are Born"
Such a bright, hopeful/triumphant reprise in the midst of a torrent of anger, pain & terror.
Love this band.
I can't stop listening to this! Absolutely crushing track with a searing chorus. The lyrics are very prescient as well.
That pre chorus guitar is orgasmic! 😵 So is the chorus and the song and the band 🍺
Ayyy wassup man
didnt expect to see you here
@@rohanarrvind1722 course you should expect him to be here 😂
Clean vocals and blast beats
Between this, Hold Your Children Close and Forging Towards the Sunset (the last one being my fav, of course there's more I'll have to discover), Anaal Nathrakh truly has some of the best and most powerful choruses in all of metal. Absolutely insane
Check Out "When the Lion Devours Both Dragon and Child" that's some premium shit
If you haven't check out 'More of fire than blood' and 'In the constellation of the black widow'
It's nearly 36 degrees today and still I get chills down my spine. Great work!
3 years on & the brilliance of this has not lessened.
One thing I love about this guys is the depth of their lyrics.
Listening to Anaal Nathrakh and reading Berserk... Life is good. ;)
This sounds insanely beaultiful. Thank you, Anaal Nathrakh.
I was not prepared for this. This is better than AC, giving chills in the middle of heatwave :P
Dwight, certified metalhead
For a second I thought you meant the A.C.
Same
Assassins Creed? Yes I agree it is better
Try to add DC
All time classic! This song will never age just like the quotes
Fax..
So happy to see the bruvs back to bring the soundtrack of armageddon once again.
made my first experience with track "pandemonic hyperblast".., since then i'm still addicted for more off 'em! thank you very much for upload.
Anaal Narthrakh brings me the chaos that i can not live without it
This is some absolutely amazing extreme metal. I've become picky over the years, because there is so much stuff out there that sounds pretty much the same, but the extreme blasts and the great clean vocals are contrasting so well, that it somehow just...works. Can't wait to hear more of this.
HOLY FUCK!!! I'm just discovering these guys and I loving how extreme they are but still churning out melodic epics like Forging Towards the Sunset, but I think this is the best one yet! This made me cry it's that disgustingly beautiful this band's amazing!
I love how the song overthrows itself in the post chorus. makes so much sense. great job, mate!
Amazing as always, great work! Waiting for the album
People fliping all over in the comments with the catchy clean vocals when it's the growlings that are out of this world.
You are right, he is a fantastic vocalist
lmao true, but the clean vocals are so fucking neat.
Niceeeee loving they’re mind bending range of vocals. How could I forget about these guys!! \m/
I've always had trouble with clean vocals in extreme metal, most times they put me off, but this is probably the best clean vocals I've ever heard. I've known about Anaal Nathrakh for a long a time and have never been a huge fan, yet this is one of the best songs I've heard in a while.
i was thinking the same thing. in fact, 1st time i listened to Anaal Nathrakh I didn't like them, but it has grown to be one of my favourites. They're very intense.
Masterpiece. The CHORUS are totaly braincrushing ! Very melodic track, I like it sooo.
Anaal Nathrakh never cease to amaze me. This is nothing short of epic.
Incredibly catchy, in the vein of "Hell is Empty ..." which is my favourite album by them. I can't wait for the full album ...
I coming back here every day
Yea, gotta listen again
Как приятно слышать, что-то новое в 2021
Absolutely massive chorus
I was completely satisfied with
''A New Kind Of Horror''.
But now, I am super stoked to hear more!
Amazing. Loved it. Can't wait to hear the whole album. Reminds of Eschaton! Incredible track
Amazing 👏 i have that cd 💿 ❤
Como siempre desde el disco Passion, cada ves más brutal, sonido aplastante, vocales limpias más presentes que contrastan con la rapidez de sus guitarras y batería, fenomenal agrupación, saludos desde Ecuador
en realidad ellos vienen siendo bestias desde el eschaton, de ahi que vienen dando pura calidad, nada decepcionante
I never used to be a fan of the singing choruses but the voice he uses in this track along with the production and vibrato make this song a masterpiece
Thundering and spectacular!
Random recommendation done right ! Why have I never heard of this band before, it's amazing
I'll come back tomorrow
i'm back
More like I'll be back every 10 minutes for a couple of days...
This is so good, I can't wait for the full length! 🔥🔥🔥🤘
i love this i cant wait!!!
Безумная годнота. Очень круто
Always brutal as hell! I love this guy's. I listen to them since I was a kid
i cant stop listening to this
Insane and amazing as always!!!
and to think that the guitar player is now a phonk artist
Yup... And in the top 500 most listened to artists on Spotify...
Man Dave is on fire with this song's message!
In fact my ears are on fire from the song, time to click replay and burn some more :D
This band has only been improving with every album they put out. Amazing.
Awesome band amongst the greatest!!!
Ok so this got randomly recommended to me on Spotify and I dug it. So I decided to search these guys up and the first other song I heard from them called Forward had dubstep and machine gun fire, at that moment I knew this would be my new favorite band
Welcome aboard, fam
I envy you all the treasures you are going to discover
No band is better.
Go for Ashes screaming silence off the passion albun
That was a beautiful description of your experience
Великолепный вокал на припеве. А запил и бластбит на фоне всего этого -- вообще слада для ушей. Не существует такого слова в природе, чтобы описать эту песню.
This band is like a fine wine...
It gets so much better each year \m/
wow, its so beautiful
Guys, I have a feeling like this album is gonna be super catchy and super insane!
Whole of the law was amazing, one of the best albums of 2016... a new kind of horror was not as good IMO.
Can't wait to get this one!
Totally agree. New kind of horror was their weakest release following their peak achievement to date...
My God! The clean vocals are so good!!
This is definitely a new benchmark for them. It’s good to hear a song that stuck with me like Forging did
I like how this sounds extreme and ugly, yet also, weirdly, kind of beautiful at the same time, like how the hell do you do that
Definitely one of my favorite metal songs of 2020, and there were a lot of good metal that came out in 2020
HOLY SHIT, this has to be the BEST AN song I've heard in YEARS
You mean worst?
The clean vocals are amazing
Im not sure about the rest not the lyrics and much less about the group name ...
@@Draconis What about the group name?
Hard to share and take seriously
@@Draconis do you even know where the name comes from and what it means?
It's very rare that band, after so many albums released, still manages to hold such a high level. They're one of a kind.
Less than 30 minutes! Cant wait!
Epic
Heard this for the first time after watching the Presidential Debate. Hits different.
Holy shit. Every release is just gold. Can't wait to get my hands on this.
Incredible in every aspect. Life time lover of the word that most don't take the time or open up too.
OMFG... This is incredible
1:36
Caralho, isso ta bom demais. Hail from Brazil
Can't wait!!
as a long time fan ive gotta say this is one of their best in a long time
Воистину гениальный вокал!
Земляк, охереть
@@Rebelintheshelltfz 👋
Holy shit, this is real good stuff! Somehow never really delved into this band yet, now I fucking will.
@Ruben VD. Same bro, going through the whole back catalog!
Forever one of my favorite bands.
Hammer Song. Clean vocals great.
This song is amazing! What a powerful chorus! 🤘🏽🔥 Greetings from Brazil.
#ComeToBrazil :D
#cometobrazil
#PlsComeToBrazil
This is without question the most badass song of 2020. You guys deserve metal song of the year if you don’t get it I’ll be pissed
Disagreement is treason!
Definitely on my top albums of 2020, I love the entire thing
Love it!!!!!