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Topic: Soul Enema premiers Aral Sea trilogy videoPosted By: SE2017
Subject: Soul Enema premiers Aral Sea trilogy video
Date Posted: January 26 2018 at 17:00
Soul Enema premiers a post-apocalyptic video for "Aral Sea I - Feeding Hand"
Israeli
Prog band Soul Enema premiers a new video for "Feeding Hand", taken
from the brand new album "Of Clans and Clones and Clowns". The video
completes the Aral Sea trilogy and finally all three parts can be seen
as one united visual concept. "Of Clans and Clones and Clowns" was
released on June 23 2017. Featuring 73 minutes of music, prime
international guests, which include Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Star One,
et al), Yossi Sassi (Orphaned Land, solo), and mixed by the legendary
Jens Bogren (Opeth, Devin Townsend, Paradise Lost, etc.). Songwriter, producer and keyboard player Constantin Glantz comments:
"Feeding
Hand" is probably the most hardcore one to watch, serving as a
realistic greeting from the post-Apocalyptic world. Sadly, it's not some
fantasy blockbuster - this world that exists now, as we speak. "Welcome
to the rebirth, Rebirth Island" - goes the line from the song. Here's a
bit of background - this video brings you the actual footage from what
was the world's biggest biological weapons testing facility, a secret
city Aralsk-7, located on the former Rebirth Island (slightly ironic
name at this point). The former island was a part of the Aral Sea, now a
part of the new Aralkum Desert. The bio-weapon tests were performed on
different animals, such as monkeys and horses. Plague, anthrax and other
kinds of viruses were tested there since 1954, sometimes via open air
spraying, causing serious leaks. Even in the late 1980's, the times of
economic crisis, shortage of mass consumption products and foreign
currency, the bio-weapon industry was still held in high priority. The
Soviet Ministry of Defense kept importing African monkeys to infect
them, explore their illness and put them to death in the very building
that you see towards the end of the "Feeding Hand" part. Around the year
1992 the Soviet Union crumbled, everything was aborted, abandoned and
left to rust in the midst of the shrinking, dying sea. The developments
since then show that there is no chance for any significant revival of
the Aral Sea. If it's possible to imagine the most grotesque memorial in
existence, the former Rebirth Island might be just that."
"Of Clans and Clones and Clowns" album is fully streaming and ordering: http://soulenema.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://soulenema.bandcamp.com/