Bloody-Disgusting has teamed up with Swiss metal band Schammasch to bring you the US exclusive music video premiere for “Golden Light”! The occult-themed video, which features crushing waves of distortion and sinister melodies, comes from the band’s latest album Contradiction.

Vocalist/guitarist CSR states:

Golden Light is, unlike any song on “Contradiction”, pretty much straight to the point. It has some kind of monolithic severity which was very important to be delivered also in the film. We first planned to shoot it at an old cathedral in our hometown, for which we even got permission due to some carefully crafted persuading. But Valnoir convinced us to leave this scenario, for it bore too many restrictions and not enough sceneric possibilites. So we followed the concept he and William had worked out instead, which turned out to be very adequate. The desolate mountains of southern France gave a well fitting scenery for this journey, the atmosphere there is unique in many ways, ominous, raw and pure. So was the actual atmosphere during the shoot, torturous in some ways (besides the vespertine red wine sessions), and even the weather played against us, like many other unforeseeable things. Furthermore we only got three days to shoot the whole film which is quite a short time, so there was pressure which culminated in maximum focus though. The concept was simple. The song basically describes the moment before reaching a higher state of being, before receiving the light of progression. The film tells the story onto this point, and gives it a personality, a face. The face of the hermit.

Head below for this exclusive premiere!

Contradiction can be pre-ordered through Prosthetic Records.

Director Valnoir comments:

This video has been shot during three days, Summer Solstice 2014, in the French Pyrénées , 20 km up north from the Spanish border. I have centuries old roots in the ground of this arid, almost desertic land. When Schammasch came to me to ask me to direct a video for them, considering the sun being the center point of the band’s universe, I immediatly thought that this solar, sterile country would be the most substantial solution. Not being a movie director myself, so to speak, I looked around me for the most talented image maker I could think of, and William Lacalmontie and I teamed up.

French Cataluña is probably the last and only location in France where the spanish ritual of the holy week can be found. This inspired us when we have been to found an aesthetic and conceptual starting point of the story. It’s important , when it’s possible, to have the core of a piece bound to the spacial context where it happens. This basically counts the life of a hermit living far away from light until one day, where, for some reason, he decides that he got further enough in his life to reach this actual light, incarnated in a divinity. This film depicts his journey.

Schammasch online:
Official Website
Facebook
Reverb Nation
Soundcloud

Tour dates:
10/16 Munchen, DE – Feierwerk #
10/17 Vevey, CH – Rocking Chair #
10/18 Trier, DE – Exhaus #
10/19 Paris,FR – Point Ephemere #
10/20 London, UK – Underworld #
10/21 Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje #
10/22 Essen, DE – Turock #
10/23 Berlin, DE – Magnet #
10/24 Wien Vieper, AT – Room #
10/25 Winterthure, CH – Gaswerk #
10/26 Nurnberg, DE – Rockfabrik #
#with Dark Fortress & Secrets of the Moon