KOBOLD - Empire - It Is Us (feat. Dujke of Scaffold)【Music video】
Kobold performing the song "EMPIRE - IT IS US"©, from the album "Technofascism", 2022.
Label: Jackhammer Music Japan; Iron, Blood and Death corp.
Origin: Serbia
Genre: Speed Metal
All links: https://linktr.ee/koboldserbia
Camera: Goran Kovačević
Video post-production: Elio Rigonat
Script: Elio Rigonat, Abdelhaq Charni, Thalia Giovannelli & Julia Lazić
Organizer: Thalia Giovannelli
Scenery: "DREAM ABOUT THE CITY (D-génération city)" exhibition by artist Ben Tho [Website: https://hooog.fr/ | IG: / h00000g ]
Costumes & makeup: Milica Jovanović & Irina
Special thanks go to all the "anonymous" friends of the band who took up acting, to help us materialize this audio-visual piece.
Music recorded in Kobold CHAOS FACTORY Studio ( / kobold_chaos_factory_studio ) in Belgrade in September 2021.
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Elio Rigonat & Stefan Stanojević.
KOBOLD are:
Elio Rigonat - Vocals, Guitar, Synths, Violin & E-Drums
Stefan Stanojević, aka "Edwin Pickett" – Bass
Lyrics:
Wake up, merge back with reality
Umbilical noose tightens, from self-animosity
Life or death, the fuck I care, I’ve long made my peace
Nothing can fulfil me, until the day I cease
Feed the Empire with my blood
I drag myself through the mud
I choke myself on shit and pus
Empire – It Is Us
Stitched together, flesh and bone
My eyes are set onto the throne
Abdominal existence, of orderly chaos
A temple of illness, sickness and pathos
As much as I infatuate and elevate myself
I can’t help but fall before man-praised wealth
Selling away piece by piece, with fear of rotting on the shelf
Reinventing myself day by day, redefined in my own hell
Suffocating grief, loss in disbelief – probably
Become a better me, unlike the better you – arguably
Just a lifeless mass, all of me – definitely
A sleepless kind of fear, nightmares’ all I hear – eternally
“Bow down, I am your reflection
Now drown, In your own weaved convictions
Your vanity, inanity, lack of humanity
Your mundanity, insanity, this is your reality”
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