Alien is the new official video from Italian group Crohm. It’s taken from their recent album released through Sliptrick Records called Humanity. The album is a mixture of styles that interweave the music with lyrics, mixing power and melody in order to create an aggressive base from which the voice of Sergio Fiorani can continuously launch messages that describe humanity.
The powerful flow of Heavy Metal that exudes from the tracks of Humanity, the new album from Crohm, is a mixture of styles that interweaves music with the lyrics, mixing power and melody in order to create an aggressive base from which the voice of Sergio Fiorani can continuously launch messages that describe humanity. Humanity was in fact conceived as a journey into the human Psyche with the intention of exploring it, revealing it, discovering it and looking at it without fear and without mercy. “We want to look inside the human soul with a piercing and ruthless gaze” says Claudio Zac Zanchetta, Crohm’s lead guitar, “from the darkest and mysterious depths up to the highest and brightest peaks, bringing to the surface the powerful energies that are trapped in the inner worlds”.
The journey of Humanity starts deep down, in the depths where the energy lives that is described in the song Alien and it continues slowly into that area called The Dark Side until it finally receives a call, as Sergio sings in The Call, which is the powerful drive of Heavy Metal that pushes our consciousness towards an awakening because the keys to success or to failure are in the hands of humanity. The only disruptive energy that can break the chains of despair is an Internal Fire, enclosed in the motto KYDAH!, and this energy can be heard in The Noise of Silence. It also manifests itself in the battlefield of the track Fields Painted Red and it pushes the individual to fight with all his strength in Run for your Life (the Escape) for both an individual and a common redemption.
“KYDAH! Keep your Dragon Alive is our motto,” says Riccardo Taraglio, the bass player of the band, “It’s our cry to the world, our deepest expression, meant to shake consciences and awaken the dragon that is inside each one of us”.
“The song describes the “Alien” that hides in every human being, our dark side, the biblical serpent that sometimes emerges and pushes us to accomplish our worst acts. The “Alien” is our “image in the mirror” that leads us to overwhelm, take revenge and all those negative actions that are a routine in human history. It’s the temptation you can resist by appealing to your own conscience. In the video clip this “Alien” emerges in the bad behavior of the wealthy young man – who kicks the beggar’s hat with contempt – and also in the angry reaction of the same beggar. But, if the latter succeeds to dominate his wrath, the young man is taken over by the “Alien” that has full control of his soul. In the end, the “Alien” appears transfigured by the iris colour alteration in the eyes of the musicians – who represent any human being – ready to manifest at any time.”
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