DARK FORTRESS Premiere ‘Pali Aike’ Music Video
February 28th, 2020
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Landshut, Germany-based black metal group Dark Fortress have filmed a music video for the track ‘Pali Aike’. Directed by Guilherme Henriques, the clip can be viewed below.
Speaking about the song, guitarist V. Santura said: “‘Pali Aike’ is a song with a particularly compelling groove and a very dense atmosphere. If you wanna hear some fast stuff, though, listen to the album in its entirety!”
Vocalist Morean added: “An ode to the violent volcanic forces that shaped our Earth, inspired by my visit of a remote, little-known volcanic site in Southern Chile. The area had been inhabited for many thousands of years before the first European settlers arrived, and these natives called this site the ‘home of the devils’ in their language (‘pali aike’).
“The lyrics are a literal description of how I experienced the place – eerily haunted, scattered with sun-bleached bones left by hunting mountain lions, and filled with mirages invoked by awe-inspiring shapes and colours of moss-covered lava formations and lakes that miraculously disappear when you get close to them. The violent and tragic history of settlement of this remote corner of the world gives a morbid twist to the site’s now tranquil and peaceful aura of abandonment.”
Dark Fortress issued eighth full-length studio album Spectres From The Old World on February 28th, 2020 through Century Media Records.
Frontman Morean commented: “Together with the rest of the human race, the protagonist reincarnated as a disembodied creature of pure light in ‘On Fever’s Wings’, the last song of Venereal Dawn. The new album attempts to draw a picture of such a mind’s perspective on life – reincarnating as pure, massless energy. The narrator has become the fabric of the universe itself. This is where heavy physics and string theory come in.”
Spectres From The Old World was recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by guitarist V. Santura at Woodshed Studio in Landshut throughout 2019.
The track listing is as follows;
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01. ‘Nascence’ (intro)
02. ‘Coalescence’
03. ‘The Spider In The Web’
04. ‘Spectres From The Old World’
05. ‘Pali Aike’
06. ‘Pazuzu’
07. ‘Isa’
08. ‘Pulling At Threads’
09. ‘In Deepest Time’
10. ‘Penrose Procession’ (interlude)
11. ‘Swan Song’
12. ‘Nox Irae’
Dark Fortress’ line-up is as follows;
Florian “Morean” Magnus Maier (vocals)
Victor “V. Santura” Bullok (guitars)
Asvargr (guitars)
Matthias “Seraph” Landes (drums)
Job “Phenex” Bos (keyboards)
Seventh studio record Venereal Dawn was released in September 2014 via Century Media Records.
Promotional photograph by Markus Laakso.
