Music

[Premiere] Check Out The New Video From Darkest Era, ‘An Ancient Fire Burns’!

Published

12 years ago

January 30, 2012

Bloody-Disgusting is proud to team up with Darkest Era for the exclusive premiere of their video for An Ancient Fire Burns, which comes off their debut album The Last Caress Of Light. Directed by Kieran Majury, the video has strong overtones of Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried.

Comments guitarist Ade Mulgrew: “An Ancient Fire Burns is a song about primal instincts and desire; and in this video we used a narrative that we really hope will grip people. It’s an old school buried-alive-in-coffin concept that compliments the themes in the song. We also shot the band’s performance by torchlight in a 1000 year old monastery, once plundered by Vikings. It was a great setting and really adds to the atmosphere in the video.”

Darkest Era will also be touring the UK with Alestorm and Claim The Throne. Tour dates and the video are below.

Tour w/ Alestorm and Claim the Throne

02/04 Plymouth, UK White Rabbit

02/05 Stoke On Trent, UK Green Star UK

02/06 Sheffield, UK Corporation UK

02/07 Bristol, UK The Fleece

02/08 Southampton, UK The Cellar

02/09 Manchester, UK Moho Live

02/10 Glasgow, UK Garage

02/13 Leicester, UK The O2 Academy

02/14 Brighton, UK The Haunt

02/15 Wrexham, UK Central Station

02/16 Leeds, UK The Well

02/18 London, UK Islington Academy

02/19 Norwich, UK Waterfront

End Tour

04/27 Dublin, IE The Pint w/ Mael Mordha

04/28 Belfast, IE The Limelight w/ Mael Mordha

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…