WL//WH Video Premiere: CRYING VESSEL Explore Memory, Trauma & Catharsis in “The Fifth Circle (If Eyes Could Talk)” [Official Music Video]

WL//WH Video Premiere   CRYING VESSEL

“The Fifth Circle” single artwork

At the forefront of the Goth and Post-punk scene revival since 2011, US/Swiss duo Crying Vessel, comprised of Slade Templeton (vocals, guitar, and synth) and Basil Oberli (drums,), unveil the final single, “The Fifth Circle (If Eyes Could Talk)” taken taken from the “Sepulchers – The Maiden” disc of the band’s highly anticipated 7th double album “Sepulchers,” slated for release on 14 February 2025 via Cold Transmission Music, complemented by an Official Music Video, directed by Fabio Rincones, WL//WH is very pleased to premiere.

Two new albums that promise to captivate and enthral, “Sepulchers – The Servant” and “Sepulchers – The Maiden,” each feature 10 unique tracks that come together to form a cohesive and immersive musical experience. One side “The Servant” showcases the synth-driven elegant style of Crying Vessel, while “The Maiden” takes us to the deeper, heavier and darker styles they’ve gained following for in recent years. The perfect taste of both styles of the band’s work all in two releases at the same time.

“The Fifth Circle (If Eyes Could Talk)” continues the conceptual thread woven through Crying Vessel’s heavier tracks on their previous albums—“The Second Sleep,” “The Third Covenant,” and “The Fourth Entity,” diving even deeper than their past explorations into memory, trauma, and catharsis through a lens of the paradoxical allure of pain as a source of pleasure.

Dubbed as the heaviest and most intense track by Crying Vessel thus far, blending elements of Industrial, Doom, Darkwave and Post-punk, an arcane cinematic intro fades into heavy nerve-racking, clanging pounds that shatter and lash, overlaid by subtly abrasive and ultra-distorted guitar curtains, emitting glassy mists into an unsettling domain of eerie glows, anxiety-inducing melodies, and sinister squealing and shredding frequencies, while a both menacing and passionate mesh of bestial growls and aching human cries declare, “If eyes could Tell us something They’d forget Everything.”

The accompanying video, directed by Fabio Rincones, takes the song’s narrative to an unflinching visual plane. It depicts the unsettling experience of surrendering emotional control to someone from the past, as if trauma itself becomes a machine—relentlessly replaying moments of anguish and manipulating feelings for their own purpose.

Graphic horror-tinged visuals star Angel Pacheco D’Andrea and Mario Nino as traumatized witches who wear elaborate Steam Punk Gothic costumes, by stylist Grecia Hernández, as they torture a man who is in an agony and ecstasy of pain. Joined by one half of the band, the women contort and cast spells on a theatre stage while sinister suggestions of mind control, dark ritual magic, and weird cyber-experiments take hold. All the while Crying Vessel performs The Fifth Circle (If Eyes Could Talk), to sync seamlessly with the nightmarish vision.

Crying Vessel‘s upcoming dual-disc album will be released, in Digital, CD, and Vinyl LP formats, on 14 February 2025 via Cold Transmission Music.  Available on Bandcamp’s pre-order from today, 17th January 2025.

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