A New Music Video from SOMBERWIND

BuzzSlayers
Jun 19
4 min read

A new single and music video from SOMBERWIND just dropped, and it comes with a dark and gothic-edged theme in the form of a vast and cinematic metal approach. The video pushes the cinematic and almost theatrical feel even more and showcases the band's presence as it takes you through some outstanding imagery.

"After The Dark" brings together the treasury of sonically driving guitars with amazing distortion and since that come in and deliver some added layers and melody to the track that, to me, feel like musical hooks and this is important because I feel like musical hooks are something that's been missing from heavier music for quite some time.

You always have some great choruses, as this track does as well, but there are never enough musical hooks to reel you in anymore. This track is an exception to that rule as they start giving the musical hooks right from the get-go, and this helps pull you right into the atmosphere of the song itself.

There are two sets of vocals on this track, both male and female. The main male vocalist is giving you this amazing and again, sort of theatrical approach that boasts that dark edge, and it comes through almost animated in a way.

I love this because it gives you so much character to hold on to.

This song definitely gives you plenty of character, and I think it's one of its strongest aspects.

The female vocalist crushes it with these beautifully soulful vocals that harmonize, bend, and sway.

She really adds such a lushness to the track and has an amazing way of sort of matching this edgy energy that it gives off, which works wonders for the entire song and how it wraps itself around you in a particular way.

One of the things I love about this track is how both of those sets of vocals work so well together.

They sort of bounce off of each other, each giving a particular tone so that you have this haunting effect.

When both of their vocals come together, it's amazing. He takes care of that lower end while she gives harmonies on the higher end, and both of them together always feel powerful, and that sticks with you.

Having the harmonies and octaves together when both of them are singing adds these layers to the track and gives it a certain kind of texture or feel that comes through super full-bodied.

That musical hook is part of the chorus, so when that chorus does hit, you get that great synth riff coming back in.

The way that they introduce the song with that riff and hook is brilliant because it comes back later. I love this because you wanted to come back after you first heard it at the start of the track.

This was a song that was definitely alive and breathing. It had a great approach, and the aesthetic of it was so thematically intense at times.

There's a great sort of bridge section where the trudging and heavy guitars are still going, but you get these airy and drifting guitars overlapping that give this floating effect and adding an almost ethereal attribute to the track.

This, of course, brings out that ghostly or haunting aesthetic even further, and this song does stick with that darker edginess throughout its course.

Following that, there's a secondary bridge sort of section where everything gets a bit more stripped down, and you hear that riff in a cleaner piano sort of effect before the core comes kicking back in for the final couple of times.

You can tell there was a lot of attention to detail during the creation of the song, and that the arrangement is a really important aspect of it because it's got this natural and forward-moving flow to it.

I love how you can hear a slew of influences coming in and out of this track, and the way that it gives off those hints of classic metal, industrial, darkwave, and more is brilliant.

This was a song that stuck to its theme but still managed to bend genres ever so slightly so that they created their own atmosphere, and these are some of the things that make the song really stand out.

The video was absolutely outstanding, and not only did it showcase their presence as artists, but also gave you such stunning effects and visuals to watch while you listen to the track, and it worked perfectly for the music itself.

I actually suggest watching the video for the first time you listen to the song. After that, I would suggest listening to it with headphones because there's other stuff going on throughout this track that adds a vastness to its undertone.

Synth pads and notes are floating through the songs ether, and these are some of the other elements that make it cinematic.

I felt right at home with this track, and it was a bit of an escape for me, so I suggest checking this one out as soon as you can.

Take a deep dive into this single when you can and remember where you heard it first.