there is so much lost childhood in this song. like tragically lost innocence and regret about it. like a dreadful dark nostalgia in a dark forest. super powerful and cuts so sharply
This song reminds me of a particular time in my life. It's amazing how a song can capture a memory and call back up such intense emotions--anger, pain, sadness. Wonderful work. This will always be one of my very favorites.
[Verse 1] I need you pure I need you clean Don't try to enlighten me Power to misconstrue What have they done to you [Chorus] Infants in infantry Rewrite their history Uproot their colony You're ripe for harvesting Virgin cells to penetrate Too premature to permeate They can't elucidate Never thought I was the enemy [Post-Chorus] I am the plague I am the plague [Verse 2] They fake sincerity Thy gifts don't give to me Now you've been anointed They've been asking for it [Chorus] Infants in infantry Rewrite their history Uproot their colony You're ripe for harvesting Virgin cells to penetrate Too premature to permeate They can't elucidate Never thought I was the enemy [Post-Chorus] I am the plague I am the plague [Interlude] [Outro] I need you pure I need you clean I need you pure I need you clean I am the plague I am the plague
+Viktor Hřib More like how we are destroying our planet, and ourselves, all those wars and cruelty against each other for money, resources, power, religion. And it's so pointless because we are destroying everything and at the end there will be nothing
LauraGonzalz well... it is still natural. You cant say we are destroying anything. There are too much factors and as a thing itself the destroying is relative
It's the only thing I dislike about this video. Something a 14 year old white girl would put on her cover in 2012. Makes me feel like I'm going to listen to One Direction every time I click the thumbnail.
I'm 34 and while I definitely like mellow music these days, the ferocity of CC's harder tracks are unmatched by most bands in the indie/electronic genres. Seen them live too, total chaos and destruction on stage.
Lol I am 48. So what? I love this sound. There is something dark and mysterious with the tunes. If something is good it is good. No matter what. It doesn't make me feel like an edgy teenager though.
t.A.t.U. or Sergei Galoyan, is present or at least influenced some CC themes, lost references can be found, but CC revolutionized to an extent that goes beyond the limits of those later times.
been there done that waaaaaaaaaay back in the 80s my father is now dead however one has to pick yourself up , pull your boots up ,dust yourself off , and keep moving forward 🙏
The day this came out, all I did was walk in the night listening to it over and over until I could internalize CCs beautiful new sound, all the monstrous innocence and scratchy bliss...they always create something I can never comprehend. This is what faith is made of.
Running through the forest at night...parting the fog with each stride I take..this is, how I feel...the world around me is everything but real...the everlasting feeling of emotions filling my heart for the one I love...
@@Pərfectchāøs "Kinda" is an acceptable adverb when making an informal comment. Additionally, aside from the lack of punctuation and capitalisation, the entire thing could be a written form of a spoken dialect. He is not writing a formal essay. These things are the difference between a high school education and actually understanding writing. Although my main objection to your comment is that it makes you look like an incel asshole. www.dictionary.com/browse/kinda
i feel so privileged to have seen them live. Anyone who even likes crystal castles remotely NEEDS to see them live. I wasn't completely into them until i saw them, easily the best night of my life. Alice is a fucking goddess when performing.
I saw them last night and this was the first song that they played. It was the most beautiful experience of my entire life. Oh and I held her up. I can die happy now.
The nightclub in London, Fabric had a very ravey vibe and you had to go down these concrete stairs making the stages feel like they were in caves. The city closed the club last year.
Hearing this I always think of someone desperate having a panic attack and screaming, she tries to calm down but the thought is still there, and she starts to despair again.
This song has been lost in my brain for like a month now and I could NOT REMEMBER THE NAME. Went through every CC song, Sidewalks & Skeletons song, and even Pastel Ghost, Mr. Kitty, Grimes, and friggin' Portwave trying to find this one damn song again. Was literally gonna start combing through Purity Ring, 100gecs, and The Birthday Massacre next if I couldn't find it. No idea how I kept missing this one damned tune every time I searched for it @_@
Mocna , dobra muzyka, melodyjna, psychodeliczna, myślę że jedna z najlepszych z ich utworów. I pomyśleć, że można tak łatwo znaleźć dobre utwory na internecie a jednocześnie tak trudno.
crystal castles bring out your pure emotions that can't be put into words. I think of the darkness consuming me calmly while listening to this :) WHAT ABOUT YEW YO?!
I agree. It is crazy how this song make us all feel the same, but no one can find the words to exactly express that feeling, we can say it is sadness because that tingling feeling it makes to the heart is most relatable to it. But then when we think "but wait, when I am sad I don't enjoy that feeling, why do I enjoy it now?" so it is not sadness xD
i like how it seems like the song is coming to a close but then you can hear a faint scream that gets gradually louder and the song starts again like theyre not ready for it to end
my favorite song from crystal castles.. such dark, hypnotic music, and the screams just speak pain and despair.. and plague is such perfect name for this song
hearing this song and thinking about that makes me feel like crying. especially when alice sang that song with emotion for him that one night after lighting his shrine.
December 2019. I came across this song when the first cases of a "mystery pneumonia" were reported in China. It was a virus. Entering 2020, I was already imagining the scenario of a pandemic that no one, except for scientists and amateurs of the subject, thought of. 2021 and we are still struggling. This song was the prelude to the chaos. Sirens and suffocation.
Does anyone else notice that the screen grows? It's like the camera is slowly moving in on the image, very slowly...watch the edges of the word Plague and see how they grow closed to the edge of the frame. And I am on drugs, need a straight-man to confirm.
Ego obliterating, yet refreshing. I saw a massive skull and crossbones whenever I shut my eyes which was fucked to say the least. I went into the trip wanting to know more about death. I can safely say I'm not scared of death anymore at all. I think it's just a transition into something else, maybe even more beautiful than life. This doesn't make me want to commit suicide nor does it make me depressed, but death is definitely on the bucket list.
esta canción es un reflejo de anciedad así que logra lo que refleja el titulo :) es tan oscura y al mismo tiempo llena de energía con la voz única de Alice como todo lo que viene de CC son excelentes
so I think i discovered my own meaning to this song (no need to argue just my interpretation) This girl who is singing the song had once had a friend, a very close friend who she's grown up with, has now become "cool' or "popular" (has been anointed to popularity) and doesn't talk to anymore, and she thinks of herself as plague now, and wants him "pure and clean' again.
What I hear is a twisted and raw recording of experimentation and sweet melody. Drugs are not required if you can hear in layers. The levels are so wrong they are right. It's perfect.
Did anyone fail to mention that Ethan Kath is being sued by Alice Glass for sexual misconduct? That's basically the reason why she left the band. Ethan is currently the subject of a Sex Crimes Investigation. I hate to say this, but Crystal Castles might end sometime in the future if this goes to court.
![[UNRELEASED] Crystal Castles - Hunting For Witches](/img/n.gif)
there is so much lost childhood in this song. like tragically lost innocence and regret about it. like a dreadful dark nostalgia in a dark forest. super powerful and cuts so sharply
couldn't put it better myself
🎉🎉
Look who was making it
we love it so much
i walked home to this song in a rainstorm and it changed me
I get you on a spiritual level
+HimawariManga same here
that sounds like the best weather to listen to this song
sure, sure.. Then you woke up the next day and totally forgot all your "changes"
i love
I saw the Crystal Castles a few years back and Alice came out in a black cloak lighting candles to this song as an opening- it was SICK
I saw her in the beginning and she was high and loaded and just screaming and rolling around. I don't think she could hold a lighter.
Probably summoning
R.I.P. Connor.
@@noocturnn a super fan i’m pretty sure they did a tribute to him i think
@@noocturnn he’s passed away
This song means so much to me. A friend died of cancer and I dedicated this song to him. 6 years later, I had cancer. Cancer is a plague.
I hope you'll the fuck beat it man.
Some guy 4m Russia with you
beat that shit! Rooting for you
I hope you will be ok. Don't give up.
Please search the AQUALEAD CURE
Your so strong. You’ll beat it. I promise! Much love and support!
There’s something about facing your own darkness, that makes you stronger. I think that’s what crystal castles did for me.
honestly, this is possibly one of the best songs ive ever heard :')
I assure you. It is :,)
how are you
@@kiziemizie thats random
@@777kohe just checking if they are alive sfter 9 yrs but no
@@kiziemiziebahahha
I can't stop listening to them!! They are helping me out in my crazy rough patch!!!
This song reminds me of a particular time in my life. It's amazing how a song can capture a memory and call back up such intense emotions--anger, pain, sadness. Wonderful work. This will always be one of my very favorites.
I had the exact same feeling about this song
Yesss
same here.....
I'll be back in 10 years, when this song is over 20 years old. I promise.
God, the lyrics are some of the most poetic things I've ever heard in an electronic music.
No wonder I love CC so much.
I imagine that I were to ever attend an underground rave with vampires & demons, this would be the song I'd hear as I walked in. So dark & beautiful!
I feel that
Mm yea
Melissa J. That's actually a great idea
You'll love Withchouse tracks by Flesh
[Verse 1]
I need you pure I need you clean
Don't try to enlighten me
Power to misconstrue
What have they done to you
[Chorus]
Infants in infantry
Rewrite their history
Uproot their colony
You're ripe for harvesting
Virgin cells to penetrate
Too premature to permeate
They can't elucidate
Never thought I was the enemy
[Post-Chorus]
I am the plague
I am the plague
[Verse 2]
They fake sincerity
Thy gifts don't give to me
Now you've been anointed
They've been asking for it
[Chorus]
Infants in infantry
Rewrite their history
Uproot their colony
You're ripe for harvesting
Virgin cells to penetrate
Too premature to permeate
They can't elucidate
Never thought I was the enemy
[Post-Chorus]
I am the plague
I am the plague
[Interlude]
[Outro]
I need you pure I need you clean
I need you pure I need you clean
I am the plague
I am the plague
Thanks 😊
Full volume on III album..thank you for making this album 🫡
Those lyrics, remind me that we humans are the worst thing that could happen to the world and even to ourselves, so poetic
You mean a result of evolution, completely natural?
+Viktor Hřib More like how we are destroying our planet, and ourselves, all those wars and cruelty against each other for money, resources, power, religion. And it's so pointless because we are destroying everything and at the end there will be nothing
+LauraGonzalz Dont worry. The earth will still be here loooong after humans are gone.
Anyways, grand track!
LauraGonzalz well... it is still natural. You cant say we are destroying anything. There are too much factors and as a thing itself the destroying is relative
i just dont like when people are thinkin about things in only one point of view
i cannot play this loud enough.
Thats for sure.
2 joydivisiongirls in these comments! I love Joy Division too
use linux.. you can increase volume beyond 100% >wO
Literally
Lmfaoo so true 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
I seriously can't keep myself from replaying this.
just like me XD
right-click on your mouse and click "loop," now you don't have click replay every few minutes.
are you still replaying it?
the image is the most 2012 thing ever
But it fits 2020 perfectly
It's the only thing I dislike about this video. Something a 14 year old white girl would put on her cover in 2012. Makes me feel like I'm going to listen to One Direction every time I click the thumbnail.
This was the hip aesthetic for the 2010’s. It makes me nostalgic.
Stupid comment
God.. already feeling massive nostalgia for the 2010's.. how old are we?! 😭@@emberducati9237
When I listen to this I keep feeling like an edgy teen, while I'm almost 30.
I'm 34 and while I definitely like mellow music these days, the ferocity of CC's harder tracks are unmatched by most bands in the indie/electronic genres. Seen them live too, total chaos and destruction on stage.
is this bad?
Lol I am 48. So what? I love this sound. There is something dark and mysterious with the tunes. If something is good it is good. No matter what. It doesn't make me feel like an edgy teenager though.
Lmao 35 here and my kids don't like it so we're just going to take that without any trouble
This isn't even my type of music yet this song has that certain energy... it comes from a sincere place.
The synth in this song reminds me a bit of the intro of "All The Things She Said" from t.A.T.u.
Ikr. I thought I’m the only one
t.A.t.U. or Sergei Galoyan, is present or at least influenced some CC themes, lost references can be found, but CC revolutionized to an extent that goes beyond the limits of those later times.
Just wanna say thank you to CC. I’m having a really hard time in life right now and I miss my dad. Music like this helps me relax… so thank you.
Hope you’re feeling better
been there done that waaaaaaaaaay back in the 80s my father is now dead however one has to pick yourself up , pull your boots up ,dust yourself off , and keep moving forward 🙏
@@michaellorenzen8200hey, thanks ❤.
初めて聞いた曲なのに何故か1度聞いていて不思議でした...
The day this came out, all I did was walk in the night listening to it over and over until I could internalize CCs beautiful new sound, all the monstrous innocence and scratchy bliss...they always create something I can never comprehend. This is what faith is made of.
I’m 87 and I still love this
You have a good taste in music
im a d-day veteran and this shit is bussin
Lul
🤣👍
@@uwagajedzietramwaj_ *No you're not, Call of Duty Campaign doesn't count.*
Running through the forest at night...parting the fog with each stride I take..this is, how I feel...the world around me is everything but real...the everlasting feeling of emotions filling my heart for the one I love...
her voice is really special....emotions emotions just emotions
So, so very good. I listen to it over and over.
I remember listening to this when I was 11 instantly falling In love with crystal castles. Now I’m 19 and still love them especially Alice ❤️
Dang, I'm sad that Crystal Castles are gone :(
They're not, we just have Edith now instead of Alice
@@iampipbertiejanis I just realised, doesn't Alice still make music?
@@Jarmey984 yep ! she has her own career now, more experimental and kind of different
@@whimpydemon yeah, I hope Alice is as successful as she was in this band
I'm not. Ethan Kath is a disgusting person, Alice still makes music and its amazing
One of those songs that haunt you for days,weeks,years!Love it
So hard to find music that does anymore 😭
This song is one of a kind it keeps bringing me here for no apparent reason.
the way it comes back into the beat near the end is insane im right with you, cc for life
2024 September 10 I found this song randomly by Night 1130 pm and i kept it on loop and didn’t sleep till dawn 🍷🗿
Seeing this live was an amazing experience. Sad turn out for one of the greatest bands. Thankfully I saw them 3 times!!
this kinda be hitting different in march 2020
lol
*This is kind of hitting differently in March 2020. Fixed.
@@Pərfectchāøs "Kinda" is an acceptable adverb when making an informal comment. Additionally, aside from the lack of punctuation and capitalisation, the entire thing could be a written form of a spoken dialect. He is not writing a formal essay.
These things are the difference between a high school education and actually understanding writing.
Although my main objection to your comment is that it makes you look like an incel asshole.
www.dictionary.com/browse/kinda
this sound still more absolutely different 2020
every month in 2020*
i feel so privileged to have seen them live. Anyone who even likes crystal castles remotely NEEDS to see them live. I wasn't completely into them until i saw them, easily the best night of my life. Alice is a fucking goddess when performing.
I saw them last night and this was the first song that they played. It was the most beautiful experience of my entire life. Oh and I held her up. I can die happy now.
See this is how it’s supposed to be. No ads, no distractions. Just beautiful music.
This song makes me wanna take ecstasy and party in a hella trippy rave/club thing underground in the catacombs or some shit.
all the crim3s and crystal castles songs make feel that
Holy shit. That's a good idea!
Omg same!
Lol I'm just writing some stories and one scene takes places in the club like that. Crystal Castles' music is playing. You read my thoughts :o
The nightclub in London, Fabric had a very ravey vibe and you had to go down these concrete stairs making the stages feel like they were in caves. The city closed the club last year.
Just found this 10 yrs later , how did I never stumble upon this piece of art ? Idk
Hearing this I always think of someone desperate having a panic attack and screaming, she tries to calm down but the thought is still there, and she starts to despair again.
This song has been lost in my brain for like a month now and I could NOT REMEMBER THE NAME. Went through every CC song, Sidewalks & Skeletons song, and even Pastel Ghost, Mr. Kitty, Grimes, and friggin' Portwave trying to find this one damn song again. Was literally gonna start combing through Purity Ring, 100gecs, and The Birthday Massacre next if I couldn't find it. No idea how I kept missing this one damned tune every time I searched for it @_@
Its really popular wdym..
@@Datadread-official Bro couldn't remember half the song's lyrics are 'I am the plague'
I adore this.I would absolutely love to see Crystal Castles live,it would be such an amazing experience
They are awesome live!
yes it was an awesome experience.. :333
You should see them live, its overall a fuckin insane experience, they are amazing
Ivy Stamos ohai, you beautiful. marry me, k?
Silvijs Only if I get a fatty ring out of it.... Hahaha
Ethan Kath’s creativity scares me, I feel like he knows things that some of us will never experience...
Mocna , dobra muzyka, melodyjna, psychodeliczna, myślę że jedna z najlepszych z ich utworów.
I pomyśleć, że można tak łatwo znaleźć dobre utwory na internecie a jednocześnie tak trudno.
This makes me feel inhuman and it's great
All crystal castles songs make me feel that way lol
That's a perfect way to describe it. Inhuman.
Вылезай из своей ракушки
Тут жизнь бьет ключом
Дружище, прошу тебя
- Не будь ссыклом.
the opening intro to this live is otherworldly! Kath was a dope producer IMHO.
crystal castles bring out your pure emotions that can't be put into words. I think of the darkness consuming me calmly while listening to this :)
WHAT ABOUT YEW YO?!
Same
Crying while listening to this. Feels so good. I wanna go out hearing this.
I agree. It is crazy how this song make us all feel the same, but no one can find the words to exactly express that feeling, we can say it is sadness because that tingling feeling it makes to the heart is most relatable to it. But then when we think "but wait, when I am sad I don't enjoy that feeling, why do I enjoy it now?" so it is not sadness xD
@@borizovskimilan this really hit the nail on the head holy shit so accurate
So well made. Very nostalgic!
i like how it seems like the song is coming to a close but then you can hear a faint scream that gets gradually louder and the song starts again
like theyre not ready for it to end
This was played at my friends funeral today...19 and gone. this will always serve as a reminder of him and his love for CC. WE LOVE YOU CONNOR! R.I.P
Listening to this while recovering from thyroid cancer surgery. All the comments about cancer…f*ck cancer.
only song i’ll ever consider to be perfect
yessas
I am 102 years old and i'm the oldest man in my small village and I am listening this song.
and you know how to use UA-cam too thats great :D
I'm 132 years old and actually the youngest of my friends.
SirNocte89 you fr?
yet ur name says 89 with most likely implies that you are 28
Broken Girl
The man says he's 103. I call bullshit but some people really live that long so it could be true, but I highly doubt it.
my favorite song from crystal castles.. such dark, hypnotic music, and the screams just speak pain and despair.. and plague is such perfect name for this song
Seeing this live was like a spiritual soul altering experience.
I love crystal castles so much
When I take over the world, and I'm standing on top of a building cackling and watching shit burn, this song will be playing.
Can I join u
chief when did you take over the world because shit's burning
I love how this comment said “when” and not if.
Hell yeah bro be confident in your goals
@@showbizstudios655 Bro don't encourage them to do that 😂😭
hearing this song and thinking about that makes me feel like crying. especially when alice sang that song with emotion for him that one night after lighting his shrine.
I used to listen to this song as a young teen...funny how your music taste goes back to what you liked when yo were younger 🔮🎶💜
oNe of my favorite CC songs'
nice avatar :D
my absolute fav song from them
The 2020 theme song
YES!!!!!!!!!
2021 lol
Just cause its titled and mentions the word plague? Lol the song is not about a health disease
@@AutoSoul_ completely not about the plague xD
I MISS THISSSSS I LIVED THIS ERA AND I SAW IT LIVE HOW WAS THIS 5 YEARS AGO
If I have no drugs,I listen to this. Sure is cheaper.
If you have drugs, and listen to this. What's happening then? :D
go ask Alice :)
I stand on my head. Great rush.
UZVV/ Blackisthequeenofthecolors sounds amazing on LSD.
Ok fine. I will!
My god this made me feel the same insane euphoria i felt while peaking on ketamine. Now i have to listen to this on ketamine.
I think what I'm impressed by most, is their phenomenal consistency of mind-blowing music, album after album
It's September 4th 1:05 pm 2021 in Chicago I've been up all night off Lsd nd I can't think of a more song to describe how I feel right now.
Blindingly Brilliant.
appropriate alliteration
Objective observation
***** Unrelated utterance.
*****
You ruined it, you should have gone with "agreeably astute!"
+Solid Snake Greatly Granted
This song deserves more than just a Like button. It needs a Love or Eargasm button.
P.S. Ponies sent me.
This song gives me feelings that make me remember the past and regret the wrong decisions 😢❤
December 2019. I came across this song when the first cases of a "mystery pneumonia" were reported in China. It was a virus. Entering 2020, I was already imagining the scenario of a pandemic that no one, except for scientists and amateurs of the subject, thought of. 2021 and we are still struggling. This song was the prelude to the chaos. Sirens and suffocation.
Does anyone else notice that the screen grows? It's like the camera is slowly moving in on the image, very slowly...watch the edges of the word Plague and see how they grow closed to the edge of the frame. And I am on drugs, need a straight-man to confirm.
It’s real. You’re not seeing things
Doing shrooms in the forest tomorrow and listening to this. Wish me safe travels
How was the trip?
Ego obliterating, yet refreshing. I saw a massive skull and crossbones whenever I shut my eyes which was fucked to say the least. I went into the trip wanting to know more about death. I can safely say I'm not scared of death anymore at all. I think it's just a transition into something else, maybe even more beautiful than life. This doesn't make me want to commit suicide nor does it make me depressed, but death is definitely on the bucket list.
+airbus youre a fucking freak bro hahahaha
I know haha, you gotta be a bit of a freak to listen to witch house dude
+Jack Elliott he's not freak just open minded like most trippers👌✌
Every one pls gate-keep this 😢
Your show In Arizona was phenomenal!! I can not wait to see you guys once again!! Remarkable work!!
I'm crying of the perfect this realase is...
esta canción es un reflejo de anciedad
así que logra lo que refleja el titulo :)
es tan oscura y al mismo tiempo llena de energía con la voz única de Alice
como todo lo que viene de CC son excelentes
I love Crystal Castles, and this song is amazing
THIS IS SO GOOD
indeed it is!
Srsly, this song is so perfect, made me completely change what I think about Crystal Castles.
omfg this is officially my favorite song and I love all the songs from CC
It's my mental breakdown and I get to choose the music
Purrrr
I cried.
I said this so this would get 69 replys
Me too.
Same dude, goddamn. Hadn't listened to this one in a long time and the intro fade-in left me quite misty.
i died.
Эх... Умершая легенда. Очень жаль что таких годных треков больше не родится на свет, от тех же рук.
one day everything will be over and crystal castles just like us will be a piece of dust and that's saddening to think about.
my love for you, too
so I think i discovered my own meaning to this song (no need to argue just my interpretation) This girl who is singing the song had once had a friend, a very close friend who she's grown up with, has now become "cool' or "popular" (has been anointed to popularity) and doesn't talk to anymore, and she thinks of herself as plague now, and wants him "pure and clean' again.
What I hear is a twisted and raw recording of experimentation and sweet melody. Drugs are not required if you can hear in layers. The levels are so wrong they are right. It's perfect.
goated album
For real
this song resonates through my whole body and soul
Thanks man. Im glad to know Im not the only one who think hes the most awesome monster.
So happy i encountered Crystal Castles and i am utterly in love 💗
Always come back to this
Simpler times back then
2022 still listening 🎶
I am not crying, you're crying 🖤
i agree, never seen a video so insane but so beautiful at the same time.. pure art
Did anyone fail to mention that Ethan Kath is being sued by Alice Glass for sexual misconduct? That's basically the reason why she left the band. Ethan is currently the subject of a Sex Crimes Investigation. I hate to say this, but Crystal Castles might end sometime in the future if this goes to court.
2020 seems like a good time to listen to this
I agree
Sounds very well
My close friend performed a sword dance in pink flames...... TO THIS SONG..... It was a experience I'll never... EVER forget 🤗🤗🤗🤗
oh wow that sounds rad
@@cryglitter it was definitely Aesthetic ❤️❤️❤️
All of Cc's songs are placed under education. That speaks volumes about the premise of their music...
Taking me back to being 13 and blasting this song in my room and thibking i knew the lyrics