“Step into the Night” — Then Comes Silence Celebrates Rebirth in Video for “Remaker Redeemer”

Hands in the sky and then we die

Our hearts have joined the thousand

We take a step into the night

Opening our eyes brings a new dawn 

The Goth subculture has survived for nearly half a century partly because every few years somebody remembers that death can be absurd. Strip away that humour and the genre starts resembling a homeowners’ association for people with excellent boots: approved haircuts, approved records, approved photographs taken beside approved statues in approved cemeteries. Then Comes Silence have enough mileage behind them to recognize the danger. Remaker Redeemer finds the Stockholm trio Alex Svenson, Jonas Fransson, and Hugo Zombie treating the graveyard as a playground again.

Then Comes Silence fortunately remembers that a black shirt is still a shirt. The album itself is conceived as a diptych, with “Requiem” representing darkness and “Ballroom” representing light. “Everything exists in contrast,” the band says.

Remaker Redeemer introduces the “Ballroom” half of the band’s forthcoming Requiem Ballroom, due November 20. The band explains that the song “is about new life, being reborn with old sins washed away. A kind of cleansing, a fresh start, and the feeling of beginning again. The choice of instruments and sounds on this track was also a way to explore something a bit different this time.”

Svenson’s bass plants every movement firmly beneath the feet, while Fransson’s drums drive the song with a dark, danceable force reminiscent of Killing Joke’s Night Time era. Svenson’s grave, commanding vocals strengthen the comparison, while Zombie’s guitar cuts through with a bright, sharp edge. There is genuine pleasure in the performance, closer to liberation than solemn contemplation, which suits a song concerned with starting over. Rebirth here apparently requires amplification, eyeliner, and several people dressed as failed medical experiments.

The song’s lyrics treat death as a passage toward renewal, moving from surrender and darkness toward another existence. Closed eyes, raised hands, joined hearts, and the arrival of dawn suggest a collective transformation, while the repeated call to a remaker and redeemer turns rebirth into an act of cleansing: old sins washed away, one life surrendered, and another beginning on the other side.

The video makes the album’s concept pleasantly mischievous. Renewal takes place among monsters. Cleansing occurs in a room full of freaks. Life returns while death watches from the front row. Directed by Damon Zurawski of Future Legends Films, the video places the band before a congregation of ghouls, Droogs, demons, grotesques, and evil babies. Yes, evil babies that look like escapees from the bargain bin of some forbidden 1970s horror shop, which immediately gives the clip more personality than another five minutes of serious men staring into industrial fog.

Zurawski photographs the performance beautifully while allowing the absurdity to breathe. Svenson holds court on bass and vocals with severe composure while Fransson hammers away behind him and Zombie sends guitar across the room in sharp strokes. Around them, the assembled creatures stare, convulse, leer, and generally behave like the clientele of a nightclub whose liquor license was issued by Satan.

Watch the video for Remaker Redeemer below:

Rock music periodically develops the delusion that dignity equals importance, an especially fatal mistake for any subculture born from makeup, theatrical clothing, cheap smoke machines, horror films, and teenagers trying to scandalize their parents. The original punk impulse understood spectacle as provocation. Somewhere along the road, certain corners of underground culture began treating their uniforms with the solemnity of military dress.

That final joke may be the best one. Subcultures survive through mutation, bad taste, risk, exaggeration, and people willing to make fools of themselves in public. Then Comes Silence understands that preservation without mischief eventually becomes embalming. Remaker Redeemer puts the corpse back on its feet, gives it a bass guitar, and lets the evil babies dance.

Then Comes Silence are currently on tour in mainland Europe. Find more info and tickets for all upcoming shows here.

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Alice Teeple is a photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and writer. She is not in Tin Machine.

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