If you’re sensitive to flashing lights or generally prone to night-terrors, the new Black Cobra video might not be for you. If you pass those two tests and can live up to the general endurance challenge that is the San Francisco two-piece to start with, then by all means, “Eye Among the Blind” should be just your cup of roiling, poisonous tea. The track comes from Black Cobra‘s latest outing and Season of Mist debut, Imperium Simulacra (review here), and like much of that record, it sets a balance between all-out assault of heavy thrash and an atmosphere of threat and overarching heft, the band having found this time out that maturity doesn’t have to come at the sacrifice of extremity.
Last week, I was fortunate enough to see Black Cobra (review here) at what is thus far the apex of their career. Not just in terms of being on a new label, I’m talking about creatively — and to be fair, that’s not at all to say I think guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian and drummer Rafa Martinez have progressed as far as they can go; quite the opposite — and as much as they get credit for being the blistering, out-rock-the-entire-room-and-then-play-the-last-two-thirds-of-the-set live act that they are, they don’t get nearly as much credit for being progressive either in their songwriting or in the technical interplay between Martinez and Landrian. Part of that might be because the guitar tone is so thick that the nuance is sometimes looked over, but especially as Imperium Simulacra finds them adding further dynamics of tempo and more melody to their sound than ever before, their mastery has clearly come to extend to more than just the stage.
“Eye Among the Blind” has a narrative set to ancient mythology, and you can watch the clip and read more about that from director Zev Deans below, courtesy of the PR wire.
Enjoy:
Black Cobra, “Eye Among the Blind” official video
BLACK COBRA release new video, “Eye Among the Blind”
Critically-acclaimed metal band BLACK COBRA have released a new video for the track “Eye Among the Blind”. The video is directed by Zev Deans (BEHEMOTH, PORTAL, and more).
Regarding the concept behind the video, Zev comments,
“Sisyphus, the two-faced king with the blood of war and betrayal on his hands, was sentenced to Tartarus, the prison below hell, for deceiving Zeus. In my version of the story, he is trapped in a Panopticon, ruled by Panoptes, the giant with one hundred eyes. His struggle reflects that of modern man, forever pushing the same stone up a hill each day, under the omnipresent eye of the ruling class. This project was not possible without a brilliant cast and the talents of Rebeccah Lak, who built the maze from scratch.”
BLACK COBRA have released their new album ‘Imperium Simulacra’ worldwide. The album is streaming in full at the band’s official Bandcamp page.
