HEXVESSEL release short concert film!

At the start of 2016, HEXVESSEL released album number three When We Are Death which received critical acclaim. The prog rockers took Finnish filmmaker Vesa Ranta (who also happens to be the former drummer of Sentenced small world huh?) along to their set at the Menuo Juodaragis Festival in the national forest of Lithuania to […]

At the start of 2016, HEXVESSEL released album number three When We Are Death which received critical acclaim. The prog rockers took Finnish filmmaker Vesa Ranta (who also happens to be the former drummer of Sentenced small world huh?) along to their set at the Menuo Juodaragis Festival in the national forest of Lithuania to record it for this awesome concert short film!

The band say; “Our idea was to try to capture a sense of the transcendental nature of one of our live shows, when you set our music to the backdrop of the forest at an event that has great meaning for us spiritually. There are a few events that have enabled this perfect conjuration of what Hexvessel means to happen. Menuo Juodaragis is one of those such magic events. A pagan festival held deep in the wilds of Lithuania on a beautifully lush island surrounded by forests, It is an event which celebrates our culture and heritage and it is utterly unique in Europe. We were so proud to go there and play the main stage and in our own way offer a sacrifice of sound to the great transformation that was taking place within people at the festival. It’s a place where you can feel the ancients breath, you can sense a great unity of spirit and mind and it’s a very warm and inclusive, familiar atmosphere. We were delighted to feel bound and compelled together with people from all parts of the world who had travelled there to get some sense of an old and almost forgotten religion. When you are there, really brought out of yourself and back into your more primitive awareness, you know that the old religion still exists only waiting to be pulled out again from the earth, the ash and the roots of age-old trees. Here you know the real meaning of what it was to truly know the earth and the universe. It was a beautiful and life-changing event that we are very happy to have this visual and resonant memento of.”

Check out the video below;

 

Elizabeth Birt

December 13, 2016

Band management assistant. Goth princess and lover of all things music and sport.

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