While we’re on the subject of cinema and sonics, take a peek at this creepy video from Holy Sons, the solo outfit for Om and Grails drummer Emil Amos, whose newest effort Decline of the West lands September 23. It mashes Mad Max, Road Warrior and several other genre films into a hallucinatory head trip that is over as soon as it begins.
Par for the course, considering that Holy Sons‘ other bands have made their names on stoner metal and rock. The song itself is a surreal thump, built from meditative guitar, bass, drum machines and morose vocals that descend into a chant about thankless lives and plotting enemies. It’s instant spacetracking that might send you into a daydream, if only it were a bit longer. Like most good movies, it’s over too soon.
But let’s play spot the samples, shall we? I got the Mad Max allusions right away, thanks to the title. But there are other films embedded there, including some that look like they popped right out of the Hammer horror coffin. Any takers?
