02/07/2016 12:25

Arkaik

Arkaik: 'The Temple Aflame' music video out

Californian death metallers Arkaik have released a music video for 'The Temple Aflame'.

The tune comes by way of Arkaik's 'Lucid Dawn' full-length, released last year via Unique Leader Records. The second installment in a series of concept albums, 'Lucid Dawn' centers itself around Cyrix, a disillusioned character in a dystopian society. In Cyrix' realm, dreaming is systematically controlled by a tyrannical ruler named Khaal-Li-Phar and his army of dark shamans, where people are forced to build monuments to the tyrant to stifle their imaginations and inhibit their ability to achieve a multi-dimensional existence.

Elaborated the band of 'The Temple Aflame': "This track is all about the groove and raw heaviness. It's straight forward and to-the-point, which is pretty different from previous stuff we've written but it serves its place within the album and adds variety between songs on 'Lucid Dawn'. The song is basically about overcoming fear and the video kind of alludes to the concept of the album but from an alternative perspective. It was produced and directed by Nikko Deluna. We had a great time making it. We actually ended up filming on the same day/night as the fourth and final 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse of 2015, an obviously metal coincidence. Nikko was really professional and a blast to work with!"

Track listing for 'Lucid Dream':
1. Risen (01:53)
2. From the Void (03:56)
3. Digital Shroud (04:34)
4. That Which Lies Hidden (03:41)
5. Awaken the I (04:28)
6. Fleshwalkers (06:10)
7. Fusion of Epochs (03:27)
8. Lucid Dawn (04:45)
9. Conjuring (04:58)
10. Temple Aflame (15:45)

Musically and conceptually, 'Lucid Dawn' is a death metal take on American mythologist, writer and lecturer, Joseph Campbell's monomyth and the beginning of Cyrix's "Hero's Journey", that seamlessly carries its listeners on a visceral expedition through the depths of evil and beyond the threshold of mundane reality.

(source: Earsplit PR)