Draconian premiere a new music video for the fifth single »Sleepwalkers« taken from the upcoming full-length album, »Under A Godless Veil«
Draconian premiere a new music video for the fifth single »Sleepwalkers« taken from the upcoming full-length album, »Under A Godless Veil«, set to release on October 30th, 2020 via Napalm Records. Video was created and directed by Natalia Drepina.
Vocalist Heike Langhans comments: “My heartsong of the album. Like a graceful requiem to ourselves, »Sleepwalkers« perfectly encapsulates the sentiments of a lost and weary soul. Subtle, yet a rallying cry – fast becoming my favourite Draconian song to date.”
Natalia Drepina adds: “This is a story about sleepwalkers who wander at dawn and at night. They feel a connection with each other, but they’re lonely, because each of them is locked in their dreams and they seem to live in parallel realities. Dreams and loneliness, abandoned houses where they lived, ect. I used moths in the video, as a symbol of the soul and night, mysterious creatures drawn by the light to destruction. Just like us humans.”
Almost five years after their sixth long-player »Sovran«, Draconian once again cast their breathtaking veil of melancholy over the world. This second full-length release featuring singer Heike Langhans delivers a captivating mélange of dreary doom and contrasty vocals and mixes Heike’s angelic female voice with Anders Jakobsson’s death growls. The one-hour long album, graced with a haunting cover artwork by Natalia Drepina, is carrying the legacy of gothic doom metal à la My Dying Bride or Trees Of Eternity into the new decade and will drag the listener into a sorrowful cosmos right with the first notes of the spellbinding opener »Sorrow Of Sophia« that interweaves beauty with crippling depression. After crushing slow rhythms and the fragile »Sleepwalkers« that leads through barren soundscapes, the band – founded in Säffle, Sweden in 1994 – rises up to their best in the nine-minute long »Ascend Into Darkness«, which will echo in the listener’s ears long after the final chord has died away.
Draconian is:
Anders Jacobsson – Vocals
Heike Langhans – Vocals
Johan Ericsson – Guitar
Daniel Arvidsson – Guitar
Jerry Torstensson – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well