French avant-garde metal band HYPNO5E released the music video for their new single “Slow Steams Of Darkness" yesterday.

The visual was directed by vocalist Emmanuel Jessua, who said this about the video:

"For the new album, I really wanted to explore the natural link between my music and its visualization. Film and video are key in the way I imagine my music, and I really see them going hand in hand. I've always created the music videos for HYPNO5E myself, but for Sheol, I wanted to dig deeper and really give full freedom to my visual creativity to build a totally new visual world for the album. So, this music video for ‘Slow Steams Of Darkness’ is built as part this global visual artwork around the album. Just like the previous video for ‘Lava From The Sky,’ it is a poetic visual interpretation of the song.

I tried to build an abstract vision of the music, an introspection of the character that we follow from song to song, video to video, in a dark, lonesome space. This time, I wanted the music video to ‘take its time,’ maintaining a slow rhythm throughout the twelve minutes, to let the song and the visuals take us in a slow visual travel. ‘Slow Steams Of Darkness’ is the closing track from our new album Sheol, to be released next week, and the images were shot in France, Bolivia, and Armenia."

HYPNO5E’s new album Sheol will be released on February 24 via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders for the release can be made here.