Other Side of Eternity, the new single from Canada’s Violentene, begins like a transmission from some distant, dying frequency; a slow surge of emotion rendered in steel and sighs. Violentene build their latest hymn on the bones of analogue machines, where Roland M’s Moogs and Korgs hum like cathedral organs in exile. His production feels both intimate and immense, as though recorded at the threshold between dream and dissolution.
Mvrijo’s voice glides through the current with unhurried grace. She doesn’t plead or perform; she inhabits the moment, breathing warmth into the circuitry’s chill. Her tone suggests someone standing before an open door, aware that crossing it means leaving everything behind. The lyrics move through cycles of ache and absolution; pain transfigured into peace, darkness reimagined as release. When she sings of meeting “on the other side of eternity,” it lands less as farewell than as an invocation, the faint shimmer of faith surviving despair.
The music feels sculpted from longing and light decay. The rhythm trudges onward like memory itself…steady, sorrowful, unstoppable. Each synth phrase folds in on itself, echoing down corridors of recollection until it becomes a pulse of pure feeling. This is the architecture of isolation made melodic, the sound of love surviving through static.
R. Marckwort’s video translates that fragile duality into movement through a landscape both metropolis and necropolis; a living city haunted by its own remains. A lone woman wanders its desolate avenues, clutching a photograph as though it were her final link to the living world. She passes through streets that once breathed with promise, now hollowed by distance and time; as glass towers rise like mausoleums.
Her journey is unhurried, elegiac. She drifts between the living and the lost, crossing bridges that lead from memory to forgetting. Each frame feels suspended in perpetual twilight, where the past and present dissolve into one another. The city hums faintly around her, indifferent yet alive, as if mourning its own persistence.
Marckwort’s direction captures the paradox of existence within decay: the quiet beauty of continuing to walk when all paths lead to oblivion. Together, song and film form a requiem for connection in a world half-buried by its own progress.
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