Azusa (Dillinger Escape Plan, Extol) Premiere Creepy, Pseudo-Religious Video for New Song ‘Monument’

Prog-rock supergroup Azusa (Dillinger Escape Plan, Sea + Air, Extol) unveiled a creepy music video for their new song “Monument.” The band is made up of Dillinger Escape Plan’s Liam Wilson (bass), two members of Extol (Christer Espevoll on guitar and David Husvik on drums) and Sea + Air’s Eleni Zafiriadou (vocals).

“Monument” is a catchy number with melodic riffs and a bouncy rhythm, with Zafiriadou’s raspy shrills setting a haunting spell over the song that make your skin crawl. Produced by Troll Toftenes, the video takes place in a church, the atmosphere is spooky, with candles, screams, whispers, an ambiguous cloaked figure, and there’s even some weird foot action at the end.

“‘Monument’ is a mid-tempo banger about false idols, hypocrisy, and the shortcomings of faith systems as a one-size-fits-all recipe for the ‘correct’ ways of living,” the band said of the track. The pseudo-religious vibe explains that. This follows the release of “Memories of an Old Emotion,” which served as a much more chaotic, genre-twisting cut. Of the title of the album, Zafiriadou said, “The line ‘cannot lose myself in a loop of yesterdays’ was inspired by an eerie dream I had and became a recurring reminder for me. I had been out of focus for a long time that I wanted to get back to reality, to the present.”

Azusa’s upcoming sophomore record Loop of Yesterdays comes out April 10th via Solid State, and is available for pre-order now. 

[via Revolver Magazine]