Animated video created by Andy (Leffer) Lefton and directed by Fin McAteer. After 20+ years of silence, a long awaited visual element has been created for the bands most recent and epic number, Knight of the Black Sun.
Okay kids, I've been listening to Amebix since the early 80's and they inspired many of my actions in my young adult life. If you listen to this and don't hear progression with the roots of Amebix blended in then your loss. This actually is where the band was progressing with songs like Right To Ride and my all time favorite Coming Home. Hats off Rob... Cheers
Well said buddy the most underrated band in UK history from the MOOR and Tavistock to this masterpiece, is a mind blower I'm now nearly 60 yrs young ❤❤❤
UUUUUGHHHAAAHH...Is this the most CRUDE, best ever done videoclip of all times or what !?!? Lost the path after "Monolith" and Just found this yesterday...shame on me...the way they packed their strong symbols with a true message here is just stunning...i 've become addicted again, hail AMEBIX !!!
Bang on, until recently I spent 8 years commuting to see my fiance about a 3 hour train ride away most weekends, would get in from work early finish Friday afternoon and have 30-45 mins to get cleaned up finish packing and head off to the station. So many times would plan the cd so when I was out the shower and doing final bits would be finishing with this monster tune, turned up on the NAD amp, arms in the air and feeling great to be fucking alive, a monster tune of power and positivity, worked for me big time!!
"The idea was to convey the sense that the corrupt forces of this World are ultimately impotent against the strength of the Human spirit, how the buried evil of the Nazi ideology is trapped under its own ice, how a desperate sense of disconnection and loneliness is the driving force for evil men, and the desire to withhold the truth, that we are free." Amebix Interview with Reflections of Darkness, 2012
Strange how the main man has found himself embroiled in arguments about anti semitism after promoting a holocaust denier on his thank you notes on the last tau cross album
@@peterritson1875 My personal opinion on the matter is that the kind of infowars anarchism that these guys were coming from tends to leave you wide open to conspiracy theories of any kind (especially if you probably deep fried your brain with years of substance abuse). At least we know now that his ideas, if indeed he already held them at this point, did not taint the music of Amebix.
I'm a Vet..thank for not making me feel Alone ...and ask......fugg...I'm Speechless...I am grateful for The Amebix....I listened to Them during Iraq,..They helped me make sense of a Tired World
'...the hands of clocks are bound and time itself is stopped...' It is hard to express how much the Amebix have meant to me over the past 20 / 25 years or so since I first heard them around the time of the Monolith album. When I first heard news of the reformation I did not expect new music... but the rumours filtered through of a new album.Finally found this a few months ago, listened, with trepidation, but -'rejoice, the great god fear is dead'... A work of genius - roll on the equinox!
Just stumbled across the video again after a few glasses of wine. I've been playing the Sonic Mass CD since it first came out and I still love it to death. It's up there with Arise and Monolith. Up the punks.
It may be a new sound, but it still has the same immense atmosphere as the old stuff. If you think it doesn't sound like Amebix, chances are you've never actually listened to Amebix. And I do mean really, properly listened. Thank you for coming back with this. There are many, both young and old, who could learn from this.
These guys are brilliant. They really tapped into some sort of primal creative energy out on that lonely moor way back when, and it seems that said energy is still with them.
So far, the new album has a modern Killing Joke type vibe for me. I have absolutely zero complaints on this as modern KJ is crushing. It's a challenging listen, but I'm really liking it so far.
One of my formative memories was in 1982 at the age of 15, meeting Rob in the Studio of Radio West in Bristol during a show called "Punk and Disorderly" hosted by the head of Riot City Records, Si Edwards. The mate with me didn't really get the Anarcho punk thing, asked for his autograph. I cringe even now. The old imagery had a profound effect on me. I hope this new album doesn't turn them into a parody of themselves. Comments about mystic meanings already? Don't let em drag you down!
Randy Blythe brought me hear. He wore an Amebix tee and i loved the image and came here to hear their stuff. I was not disappointed!! Thanks Randy!!! 🤘🏼
I was there at the Longacre Hall, Amebix ruled and made the hairs on my neck stand up then, and this track has the same effect years later. If you don't like it I don't see any chains holding you down....awesome atmosphere...POWER REMAINS!
I grew up listening to Amebix. In moments where I had no hope, songs like Chain Reaction saved me. Nope, this doesn't sound like old Amebix, but it's equally as brilliant. A moment of salvation in the darkest hour.
+Manic Maniac I think that's the route most bands take when there tired of subcultures and music genres. Just so they deliver a message with great music
Joshua Hayes I think amebix and rudimentary Peni were two bands that got lumped into anarcho/crust but should've been on a genre completely on their own
90% of the people that i asked what do you think that this album will be - they say old man's crap, bad,shit-fuck all of them, those words make my soul sick... i grow up with their sound... and fucking love all of their material from the demos to monolith, and when i heard this song make's me fell more love for AmeBiX b.cose i can fell the energy and emotions first at Stg's guitar and the voice of the Baron make's me fell all of the emotions that i think they feel and the tears start to fall...
NOT F*CKING LONG ENOUGH.......i could bathe in this. Nice one Rob Miller and boys....superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best wishes from "the man in the white Transit van" who gave Rob Miller + 15 friends a lift home from Nereen Butler's funeral(many years ago..Ben was sitting beside me, as were many others.....wonder if your memory will recall this Rob??!!!! You done well kid. Certainly woke up Midsomer Norton with your stand-out(and awesome indie) dress sense....and it all lead to this, above. RESPECT.
Some good feedback, some bad feedback. I'll hazard a guess that all the bad is coming from people who were never there. I'm an old bastard and I've been a fan since the beginning. This is quite simply the greatest thing I've heard this year. My vinyl's just turned up in the post a couple of days ago and I for one, can't wait for the album. Roll on September.
As it was over 20 years in between the last song, why does it baffle you? I find it somewhat.. Natural. I'd been astonished if there was 20 years of life and growing and all that was mustered up, is more crust. It's an absolutely fantastic song, epic and mournful to a degree that will never be reached by the standard shitty electric guitar + orchestra "metal".
i dig the video and the song. the vocals kinda remind me of Tyla from the Dogs D'Amour. i always loved that raspy, but warm sound he had. can't wait to hear more new tunes!
This is a long awaited crust song: dark and epic! The video itself reflects the song very well. Good job for both of them. Please pay a visit to my country: Indonesia. We wish to have a chance once in a life time to see you guys perform :)
@mattiacore Agree with every word. They have reached a new level here. Taken the old stuff and really progressed, still keeping their original roots. Excellently put.
I think this is one of Amebix best well written and wise lyrics, a lot of references and knowledge are here, it opens a lot of ways to go and study history facts, myths and legends. I would like to ask you all, what is your interpretation about this song?
