ARKONA unveils music video for ‘Ugasaya’
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Jun 17, 2023
Pagan metal quintet ARKONA has released a compelling music video for their synth-driven track ‘Ugasaya’, coinciding with the release of their new album, Kob’. The video, set against the backdrop of tormented nature, portrays the broken soul of Mother Earth and the dystopian world we inhabit. The bone-dry earth, once a flourishing lake, serves as the backdrop as ARKONA delivers their doom metal-inspired track. The terrifying landscape merges with rhythmic synths and a grooving baseline to create a turbulent atmosphere accentuated by Masha’s growls and screams.
Conceptually, the album Kob’ is a catabasis, representing humanity's gradual descent into the abyss. Each song in the album highlights different problems faced by humanity, arranged in the order of their inevitable occurrence. ARKONA has been known to produce gripping and evocative metal music, and with this release, they continue to establish themselves as masters of their genre. The poignant visuals and gripping music of ‘Ugasaya’ are sure to leave a lasting impression on the audience.
ARKONA on the new music video for “Ugasaya”:
“Ugasaya” is the third step out of 6, which humanity is consciously taking down the path into the abyss, thus dooming all human race to total annihilation. This song tells about an ecological catastrophe, the inevitable result of the insane deeds committed by human beings throughout their entire existence and worthless living at the expense of the endless suffering of Mother Earth. It’s about natural cataclysms and disasters, as consequences of human intervention in the desire to rise above the true divine essence of nature, resulting in all the elements rebel against the humans, and nature, initially being the only parent – Creator, killing its insensitive and selfish child.”
“At the beginning of the song, you can hear the parable by the Soviet filmmaker Konstantin Lopushansky, which states:
“Look at yourself, human! For there is nothing more beautiful than you. Lies – that’s your name, and hypocrisy – that’s your deeds. Everything you touch will be desecrated: the living and the dead, trees and stones of planets, air, animals and fish. Everything will be poisoned, everything will be distorted…”
ARKONA on the new album, Kob’:
“We’re enormously proud to present you our new album, Kob’, which is finally ready to step out into this world in its full glory. Clad in a black robe, it’s prepared to reveal itself in the image of the many-faced and majestic death, which inevitably leads us along an invisible thread, by the whisper of a prophetic divination spell called Kob’. Close your eyes. Led by the Universal Darkness that has risen from the grave, taste the flesh of a blatant bloody reality. Drink the tears of Mother Earth’s sufferings. Take your filthy skin off your innocent face, in order to be cleansed from the suffering received during the dark power of epidemics and wars which were created by your pure, gentle hands.
For you are a human and the world hasn’t seen anything more beautiful than you….”
Kob’ Tracklisting:
1. Izrechenie. Nachalo
2. Kob’
3. Ydi
4. Ugasaya
5. Mor
6. Na zakate bagrovogo solntsa
7. Razryvaya plot’ ot bezyskhodnosti bytiya
8. Izrechenie. Iskhod
Experience ARKONA Live 2023 with Batushka
28.09.23 RO – Bucharest / MGF
29.09.23 BG – Sofia / Mixtape
30.09.23 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
01.10.23 SRB – Belgrade / Dom Omladine
02.10.23 HR – Zagreb / Boogaloo
03.10.23 SL – Ljubljana Cvetlicarna
04.10.23 SVK – Zvolen / DK ZSR
05.10.23 PL – Krakow / Klub Studio
06.10.23 DE – Berlin / Orwo Haus
07.10.23 BE – Arlon / Night Metal
08.10.23 DE – Erfurt / From Hell
10.10.23 PL – Bialystok / Zmiana Klimatu
11.10.23 LV – Riga / Melna Peiktdiena
12.10.23 EST – Tallin / Tapper
13.10.23 FI – Oulu / Kantakrouvi
14.10.23 FI – Tampere / Olympia Kortteli
15.10.23 FI – Helsinki / Vanha Ylioppilastalo
ARKONA are:
Masha “Scream” – Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Sergei “Lazar” – Guitars
Ruslan “Kniaz” – Bass
Vladimir “Volk” – Wind Instruments
Alexander Smirnov – Drums
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Jun 17, 2023
Pagan metal quintet ARKONA has released a compelling music video for their synth-driven track ‘Ugasaya’, coinciding with the release of their new album, Kob’. The video, set against the backdrop of tormented nature, portrays the broken soul of Mother Earth and the dystopian world we inhabit. The bone-dry earth, once a flourishing lake, serves as the backdrop as ARKONA delivers their doom metal-inspired track. The terrifying landscape merges with rhythmic synths and a grooving baseline to create a turbulent atmosphere accentuated by Masha’s growls and screams.
Conceptually, the album Kob’ is a catabasis, representing humanity's gradual descent into the abyss. Each song in the album highlights different problems faced by humanity, arranged in the order of their inevitable occurrence. ARKONA has been known to produce gripping and evocative metal music, and with this release, they continue to establish themselves as masters of their genre. The poignant visuals and gripping music of ‘Ugasaya’ are sure to leave a lasting impression on the audience.
ARKONA on the new music video for “Ugasaya”:
“Ugasaya” is the third step out of 6, which humanity is consciously taking down the path into the abyss, thus dooming all human race to total annihilation. This song tells about an ecological catastrophe, the inevitable result of the insane deeds committed by human beings throughout their entire existence and worthless living at the expense of the endless suffering of Mother Earth. It’s about natural cataclysms and disasters, as consequences of human intervention in the desire to rise above the true divine essence of nature, resulting in all the elements rebel against the humans, and nature, initially being the only parent – Creator, killing its insensitive and selfish child.”
“At the beginning of the song, you can hear the parable by the Soviet filmmaker Konstantin Lopushansky, which states:
“Look at yourself, human! For there is nothing more beautiful than you. Lies – that’s your name, and hypocrisy – that’s your deeds. Everything you touch will be desecrated: the living and the dead, trees and stones of planets, air, animals and fish. Everything will be poisoned, everything will be distorted…”
ARKONA on the new album, Kob’:
“We’re enormously proud to present you our new album, Kob’, which is finally ready to step out into this world in its full glory. Clad in a black robe, it’s prepared to reveal itself in the image of the many-faced and majestic death, which inevitably leads us along an invisible thread, by the whisper of a prophetic divination spell called Kob’. Close your eyes. Led by the Universal Darkness that has risen from the grave, taste the flesh of a blatant bloody reality. Drink the tears of Mother Earth’s sufferings. Take your filthy skin off your innocent face, in order to be cleansed from the suffering received during the dark power of epidemics and wars which were created by your pure, gentle hands.
For you are a human and the world hasn’t seen anything more beautiful than you….”
Kob’ Tracklisting:
1. Izrechenie. Nachalo
2. Kob’
3. Ydi
4. Ugasaya
5. Mor
6. Na zakate bagrovogo solntsa
7. Razryvaya plot’ ot bezyskhodnosti bytiya
8. Izrechenie. Iskhod
Experience ARKONA Live 2023 with Batushka
28.09.23 RO – Bucharest / MGF
29.09.23 BG – Sofia / Mixtape
30.09.23 HU – Budapest / Barba Negra
01.10.23 SRB – Belgrade / Dom Omladine
02.10.23 HR – Zagreb / Boogaloo
03.10.23 SL – Ljubljana Cvetlicarna
04.10.23 SVK – Zvolen / DK ZSR
05.10.23 PL – Krakow / Klub Studio
06.10.23 DE – Berlin / Orwo Haus
07.10.23 BE – Arlon / Night Metal
08.10.23 DE – Erfurt / From Hell
10.10.23 PL – Bialystok / Zmiana Klimatu
11.10.23 LV – Riga / Melna Peiktdiena
12.10.23 EST – Tallin / Tapper
13.10.23 FI – Oulu / Kantakrouvi
14.10.23 FI – Tampere / Olympia Kortteli
15.10.23 FI – Helsinki / Vanha Ylioppilastalo
ARKONA are:
Masha “Scream” – Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Sergei “Lazar” – Guitars
Ruslan “Kniaz” – Bass
Vladimir “Volk” – Wind Instruments
Alexander Smirnov – Drums
