Burning for the Gods of Annihilation
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George Cukor’s 1944 noir masterpiece Gaslight flickers with slow-burning menace, a tale of whispered doubts and stolen certainty, where reality itself is twisted like a marionette in the hands of a master manipulator. Ingrid Bergman, trembling between reason and ruin, finds herself trapped in a house where the lights dim without cause, where footsteps echo from nowhere, where truth erodes under the weight of a carefully curated lie.
The word gaslight once meant warmth, a flicker against the dark. Now, it slithers through conversation like a whispered curse, a trick of the mind, a slow unraveling of certainty. Italian darkwave outfit The Black Veils seize that bitter irony and set it ablaze in Gaslight!, a track timed cruelly, or perfectly, for Valentine’s Day…an anthem for the toxic entanglements we can’t quite sever. Who wields the flame? Who withers beneath it? Lover and liar blur. Gender dissolves. The battleground shifts…maybe two figures locked in a cruel pas de deux, maybe a single mind at war with itself.
The first glimpse of their fourth album, arriving in autumn 2025 via French independent label Icy Cold Records, Gaslight! trades the raw ferocity of their previous release, Carnage, for something sleeker, sharper, a synth-driven storm that writhes across the dance floor. Its chorus clings like a bad memory, an obsessive loop refusing to fade. A fevered dance of deception, Gaslight! flickers between danger and desire, its figures circling a pyre, feeding the flames of destruction. He ignites, she smolders, both burning for unseen gods of ruin.
The video, directed and edited by The Black Veils’ and European Ghost’s guitarist Mario d’Anelli, with support from Viktoriya Chuminok, Enrica Fontana, Beatrice Generali, and Giulia Moser (Miss Nuit Blanche), unfolds like a fevered dream. Queer burlesque artist Vita Ninja commands the stage of an abandoned theatre, a lone figure bathed in flickering light, while The Black Veils brood in the background, their music threading through the decay.
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