Italian Darkwave Trio Ash Code return with another video from their acclaimed third studio album, Perspektive. The record which explores the perils of our digital age of information and disinformation sees the band with a new US Distribution deal with Metropolis Records, leading up to a North American tour this August.
Regarding the song and video, which encapsulates the Orwellian caution urged by the band in their LP Perspektive, Ash Code explain:
“Disease’ is one of our darkest songs, the lyrics are about the technological drift of the time, the disinformation and cynicism we live in.
The protagonist of the song’s an active subject seeing everything clearly and wonders how all this passivity is possible, along with this non-curious way of thinking—and ultimately lands with him asking for a lobotomy.
For the first time, we didn’t work with Elio De Filippo as director, entrusting the task to Sally Dige who worked with Christoffer Bagge in the title role. “
Indeed, “Disease” with its stark black and white visuals, utilizes shape and shadow in a manner that parallels the work of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, with Bagge of Totem as an analogue of that film’s Cesare—the somnambulist representing mankind being conditioned into accepting the rise of fascism. The video was filmed and directed by Sally Dige Jørgensen.
Watch the video for “Disease” below:
Preorder Perspektive on Metropolis Records(USA) here.
For ordering the CD/LP in Europe, go here.
USA Tour Dates:
Cold winter’s journey Oh your soul keeps bleeding on Through the storm and the war…
Untie The few and far behind Interest informant redefined Form a feed within and without…
Lost in a dream again Tell me that you want me, no need to pretend…
You can’t believe what they say, they’ll treat you like a fool It hurts me…
Did you feel afraid to whisper? It’s such cold comfort but it’s real The weight…
When light has gone Snow angels will turn to grey Dark veil of our embrace…