Travelers!
We’ve finally booked our upcoming Music Video shoot and it’s gonna be sick! Here’s some preliminary information for ya!
We’re hard at work preparing for a music video shoot in Canada with a badass director named Connor! He’s worked with Angelmaker, Carcosa, and Ov Sulfer among others. It really turned out well that we had Sean up in Vancouver since the director is there too. We won’t have to fly drums around the world for Sean to have his kit with him. haha So let’s talk about the video!
New Music Video!
Ok, so Metal Blade has helped us decide on a few things for the video including the director, type of video (Performance, not narrative/atmospheric) and the release date (Sorry, you don’t get that yet, but read more below to be one of the first to see it.)
We spent about 2 weeks scouring for directors, locations, videographers, editors, etc. and we finally wound up with a super cool dude named Connor who’s reel you can watch here:
Location
We’re going to be shooting in Vancouver, BC, Canada as a result of some LONG talks about location, directors, timelines, and more. We had to decide between about 5 directors before arriving with the one we think will fit best. 😁
We’ve got some really neat photos of the area to share with you today!
Funnily enough, this is Sean’s brother’s farm and house and barn, so aside from the beer pong tables, copious cobwebs and likely dangerous canadian spiders, we might have the perfect place!
Gear and People
Sadly, Alex won’t be available for this video shoot as he’ll have been recently home from his Deafheaven/Holy Fawn tour and won’t have the willpower to set off for another week so soon from arriving home. So in lieu of his absence Sean has enlisted (pun?) a friend of his from the Vancouver metal scene to stand in and be Alex’s sexy body double. However, since Mark and Nico we’ll be traveling to Canada to meet up with Sean and Connor for the video, we’re having to leave behind our gear and we’re borrowing everything in the video from Sean and his buddies.
Lyrical Importance
This song is about the main character reflecting on their life and memories of sneaking sips of alcohol in the basement below the stairs. The song is very reflective and somber, but begins with great intensity. These locations should serve well to exemplify the home the character is moving through across the album. Interestingly, there is an overtone of consumerism that is hinted at here, wherein the main character reflects upon the things they prioritized instead of the people.
Here’s an excerpt:
I’ll stay awake until I am dead!
A shadowsong of memories bled.
A cracking floor,
My old creaking bones.
I’ve lost my life to things I don’t own.
Mark will likely explain this a bit more across the album. 😉
Visuals
Ideally we’re shooting for something that has the visuals of the band performing together and the house’s “decrepit-ness” (is that a word?). The main focus is to bring in the distant landscapes with the age and lost warmth of the home. Ideally, it’ll feel dusty, cobweb-y, and forgotten. Hopefully cool colors and cold emptiness, but we trust Connor to make a beautiful vision come to life. 😊
*Possible* ETP Producer Role
As you all know, we’re always looking for ways to include our community in our music, merch, designs, streams, games, etc. and as Enlisted Traveler’s you’ll always receive credit on our albums, videos, and streams, as we cannot thank you enough for supporting all of our creative endeavors. 😊 However, this is a new and unprecedented opportunity for a select few Travelers to be credited in the production of our upcoming music video. In short, we’re looking for 5 individuals/entities to produce our new video. This means that we’re offering a Producer’s Role with a “producer” credit on the video and you will get an early viewing of the video/song before it goes public. Additionally, we’re going to be making you a custom Jacket declaring you a producer on the video.
So, we’re trying to open this opportunity up to you all if there’s interest, but we’ll be making this video either way. 😊
Traveler’s Merch
We’ve got new pins and we finally got the Floral Collection back in stock and can print it again, so if you’re interested head over to the shop!