06/16/2020 17:52

Azure Emote

Azure Emote unleash 'Curse of Life' music video

US avantgarde death metal band Azure Emote have released music video for 'Curse of Life'.

The song is taken off of their latest, the third, full-length album 'The Third Perspective'. It was released in March this year via Selfmadegod Records.

Azure Emote is the brainchild of vocalist Mike Hrubovcak (Monstrosity, Hypoxia, Divine Rapture) joined by guitarist Ryan Moll (Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Total Fucking Destruction). 'The Third Perspective' also sees drums provided Mike Heller (Fear Factory, Malignancy, Raven), bass from Kelly Conlon (Death, Pessimist, Monstrosity) who also played trumpet on 'Three Six Nine', vocals from Melissa Ferlaak (Therion, Plague Of Stars, Echoterra, Aesma Daeva), violins from Pete Johansen (Sins Of Thy Beloved, Tristania, Morgul, Sirena), and keyboards by Jonah Weingarten (Pyramaze, We Are Sentinels, Teramaze). Additional guest guitars on 'Loss' are provided by Mark English (Monstrosity, Deicide), and on 'Dark Realms' and 'Solitary Striving' by Bob Davodian (Divine Rapture, Randall Flagg).

The powerful new video for 'Curse Of Life' was directed and filmed by Nader Sadek with editing and effects by Universus Art Sherbieny and additional Videography by Mike Hrubovcak. Sadek offers, "For years I'd been hoping that Mike - through our many collaborations starting as far back as 2012 - would ask me to make a video for his highly experimental and intense musical adventure. I got super lucky and got the call. Listening to the song and seeing Mike's artwork for the album got me tripping and gave me permission to get very weird with it. The song's eclectic nature and orchestration are mind boggling and so inspiring! I had the opportunity to shoot all over the world all the way from the US, Portugal, and Egypt. I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity and the journey it took me on! Making it was such an intense experience and I got to collaborate with Universus Art Sherbiny too, who added all the amazing elements. Mike and Co.'s excitement over the final piece is the cherry on top of this crazy cake!"

Mike Hrubovcak offers a synopsis of the video, stating, "This video is inspired from the album cover art and a conceptualization of a "third perspective" in accordance with the overall theme of the album. The video is inherently personal and although open to interpretation, presents a nightmare vision of a Reptilian God-like creature residing in a deep underground cave during the later stages of planetary formation. With an act of omnipotent boldness, this creature is in the process of creating an early human prototype only to eventually destroy the effigy and then himself out of frustration. As with art in general, we often see our culture's view of artists as tortured souls, suffering for their creations, and then destroying them in an act akin to infanticide. This video is no different in that respect as many of the props and physical artworks were purposefully burned or destroyed during the process of filming. The lyrics of the song are more of a poetic plight from the human perspective, a venting of the feelings of helplessness and hatred of life in general while coping with the anxiety, sleeplessness and general horrors of imposed existence."

(source: Earsplit PR)