Although they are a new band from South America, one would suspect Mourning Sun came from Europe during the peak of bands such as The Gathering, <... (read more)
Self Hypnosis is a new collaboration of Kris Clayton (Camel of Doom/Esoteric),
Greg Chandler (Esoteric/Lychgate) and Tom Vallely (Lychgate/Macabre Omen/Omega
Centuri)
Their debut album 'Contagion of Despair' will be released on 21st August 2020
by Svart Records. The first track from the record, 'Contagion' can be listened
to in its entirety here.
About the video, the band writes Surprisingly, ‘Contagion’ is not a response to the current COVID-19 crisis,
having been written in mid 2018, but rather a case of observation that has
become accidental prescience. The song serves as an introduction to the themes
found throughout ‘Contagion of Despair’, a hate letter to the ever increasing
tendency for the media to no longer be a source of information, choosing
profiteering over accuracy with ever more sensationalist stories coming from
all angles at all times. Ironically, as a real contagion spreads throughout
the world, once again the press ensure at all times that they create an
atmosphere of fear and misery. The album as a whole examines various aspects
of the constant war on happiness, divisive tactics and general narrative of
despair that is now endemic in our society. Who benefits from this situation?
Who thrives on human misery?