I celebrated the distance, cutting your photos apart
Sacrificed each frame, ripping your smiley face
I traced a line, erasing the past, this bond never meant to last
A change smaller than I thought, I simply forgot
The past does not vanish, nor does it stay. It lingers, it loops, it frays at the edges like old magnetic tape, spitting static where voices once sang. Love, too, is like this—recorded in the fragile grooves of memory, its melody bright at first, then warping, slowing, losing pitch until what remains is a murmur, a suggestion, a ghost of a song you once knew.
You press play. The screen glows, the past reanimates, but the warmth is gone. The faces move, the smiles form, the hands reach; but the feeling, the weight, the fire, has flickered out. The film degrades, the sound bends, and soon it is all just motion without meaning, images without touch. What once made the heart quicken now passes through without resistance. The wound sealed itself, but left a faint, colorless scar, a quiet reminder that the ache is over, that love has long since folded into time.
Ash Code’s Scar moves in these motions: a song of distance, of detachment, of memories replayed until their meaning slips away. Alessandro Belluccio and Claudia Nottebella trade refrains like echoes down an empty hall, the final tolling of a love dissolved into air. Their signature tension coils beneath glistening electronics, pulling us into the electric haze of midnight indulgence. Frostbitten synths hum against bittersweet vocals, each note steeped in longing, each pulse laced with desire. Sensuous and smoldering, the track is primed to ignite dance floors across the goth circuit, a slow-burning fuse set to the rhythm of the night.
“It’s a song about a bittersweet story of love lost to time, where old VHS tapes replay memories that no longer hold meaning,” says Alessandro Belluccio.” The crackling static and glowing screen brings back a face once cherished, now just a distant image. The song captures the quiet realization that the past has faded, leaving only a scar. It explores the way time erases emotions, turning once vivid moments into nothing more than flickering frames on a worn out tape.”
Director Elio De Filippo cleverly seized the opportunity to take Scar‘s lyrics literally and film the video in an abandoned television studio, “a place frozen in time, perfect for capturing the song’s themes of memory and oblivion,” he says. “We used old monitors, mixers, and analogue visual effects to create a deliberately degraded aesthetic, as if the memories themselves were recorded on a worn-out tape. Glitches, distortions, and overlays blend with modern editing techniques, mirroring the song’s protagonist watching the past through an old screen. The result is a visual journey between past and present, where faded images resurface only to disappear again into time.”
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