Nero Kane’s new single As an Angel’s Voice comes veiled in a haunting short film by Samantha Stella, a chamber of symbols and relics that presses time into a loop. Black-and-white images stagger between ruin and reverie: an abandoned house, its walls breathing with the absence of human warmth; a woman clutching a photograph as though it might burn through her hands. The air feels suspended, as though the players are neither alive nor dead, but drifting somewhere in between, caught in a constant series of beginnings without any progress. There is a hush in the frame, a silence heavy with ritual.
The music, bringing to mind Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave, and Joszef Van Wissem, carries the same solemn procession. Kane’s thundering voice, sepulchral yet tender, glides across skeletal guitar lines, tracing the kind of chill that evokes Nico’s tragic poems.
“As if Bela Tarr and Sergei Parajanov found themselves with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the American desert,” Stella remarks; and indeed, the images wander like pilgrims into a cinema of hallucination. Each gesture carries the gravity of ritual, the suggestion of a liturgy assembled from lost devotion.
“A desert of the soul. The Love we were never given, a flutter of wings, the fall into the End. The Eternal,” says Kane, his words landing like epitaphs, spare and absolute, carved into rose-coloured granite.
The video for As an Angel’s Voice is less story than séance as it bends reality into allegory. Kane and Stella appear as imprisoned souls, recalling the overturned roles of life and death in The Others. They move as if embalmed by memory, their gestures thick with finality. Strange, dreamlike, nightmarish…the images circle, binding the song into eternity. Their faces pale as relics, they drift through corridors of grief, caught in cycles that echo the ceaseless circling of liturgy itself. The desert, both American and inward, becomes less geography than metaphysical sentence.
Watch “As an Angel’s Voice” below:
For the Love, the Death and the Poetry, Kane’s fourth studio album due 26 September via Subsound Records, promises a folk liturgy where psychomagic mysticism crosses desolate landscapes. Here, the single foreshadows that journey: a dirge paced like a funeral for what never came to pass, the intimation of eternity dressed in dust and light.
Kane and Stella’s union is more than collaboration; it is communion, staged across Europe, the UK, Los Angeles; inside churches, museums, festivals where the air itself seems to consecrate their sound. Their stage has hosted devotions beside the likes of Zola Jesus, Darkher, Marissa Nadler, each night folding myth and mortality into performance.
For the Love, the Death and the Poetry was curated by Matt Bordin (Squadra Omega), producer of Tales of Faith and Lunacy (Nasoni Records Berlin/BloodRock, 2020) and Of Knowledge and Revelation (Subsound Records, 2022).
The video for As An Angel’s Voice will be screened at the MAIIIM Centre for Contemporary Arts in Genoa at the beginning of October 2025, in conjunction with the anthological exhibition of Samantha Stella.
Listen to As An Angel’s Voice below. The vinyl is available in a limited edition in matte white and black. The CD and digital formats contain the track Unto Thee Oh Lord, not featured on the vinyl. You can pre-order For The Love, The Death and the Poetry here and here.
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