The Ocean have premiered a new video for their song “Permian: The Great Dying,“ via Billboard. The clip was directed by Craig Murray, who previously worked with the group on their “Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence” video. The track is featured on their latest album “Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic.“
Robin Staps said the following about the song:
“The lyrics of the song revolve around the Great Dying topic on two related but also distinctly different orbits. The paleontology/climate change is the surface level, and beneath lies a personal relationship story, an end-times romance embedded into (and artistically inflated) to Earth’s history dimensions.”
He also added the following about the video, which was mostly filmed in India and Indonesia:
“While the first clip was very artsy, based on strong visual effects, intense colors and lots of post-production, (‘Permian‘) was meant to have a desaturated, natural look and get by almost entirely without effects. We wanted it to have a dry, suffocating grade, with nice grain and a very authentic, stripped-to-the-core feel.”
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