Video Of The Day YEARS OF DENIAL
Since 2021, walking the unpredictable and obscure tightrope between EBM, Techno, Industrial, Post-Punk, Darkwave and rave culture, beyond making a name for themselves with entrancing and blazing live shows, Years of Denial, the project of French musician and producer Jerome Tcherneyan (former drummer of cult British group Piano Magic) and Czech performance & music artist, lyricist, and singer-songwriter Barkosina Hanusova, rolls out an Official Video, directed by the highly talented Simone Pellegrini, for “Devil in a Skirt”, the opening track from the recently released “Love Cuts” EP, via VEYL.
35mm analogue shot by Simone Pellegrini
Six hypnotic and intense genre-bending dancefloor-ready introspections on various angles of love, ranging from the digital to the forbidden, toxic to erotic and beyond.
The “shadowy, Death Rock-inspired ballad”, “Devil in a Skirt” combines bleak, piercing synth radiations and washes of eerie, haunting haze with pounding dance beats, ominously churning low bass drones and cold, sensual magnetic female spoken words describing the deadly, heart-crushing actions of a temptress that may not be what she seems.
35mm analogue shot by Simone Pellegrini
The Official Video, directed by Simone Pellegrini, begins with Dahlia Liu lying unconscious with a bloody nose in the street at night. She hobbles home, and while she takes a shower, a flashback reveals who the people, played by Roy Barone, Miguel Soares, and Ricardo Castro, who assaulted her are. She then puts on a red leather skirt, an inverted pentagram belt buckle, dramatic demon-like make-up and conducts a ritual before setting out on a violent night of retribution. It is interesting to note that after the carnage, she is seen in front of a crucifix, bringing forth the lyrical mention of the whore and the holy one. Throughout the vision, Years of Denial evocatively performs “Devil In a Skirt” on a strobing stage, syncing seamlessly with the soundtrack.
Years of Denial‘s new EP, “Love Cuts”, is out now, in Vinyl, CD, & Digital formats, via VEYL.
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