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The Black Thunder Post Video for “Life Wasting,” Thereby Using Their Time Wisely

Posted in Bootleg Theater on July 30th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

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The new video from The Black Thunder‘s late-2017 debut album, Visions in Black, would seem to have been filmed in early June at the Fl?der Festiwal in their native Poland. As it was first posted earlier this month, it’s a pretty quick turnaround from recording to mixing different camera shots, editing the sound in, and all the other video-making processes that I don’t understand so will just call “magic” and leave it at that. But, as I think the track itself shows pretty well, the band are all business, so maybe it’s not such a shock their new clip would be likewise in the making. After marinating their sound for eight years over an initial demo and EP releases in 2012 and 2013, The Black Thunder very obviously took care to hone their sound prior to producing their first full-length. Accordingly, Visions in Black — which is name-your-price on Bandcamp and available on CD through Green Lungs Records — is tight in its tension built of riffy metal and Eastern European noise rock traditions, with a marked dissenting lean to its themes in songs like “No More!,” “Consumer World Destroys Us,” and even the new single “Life Wasting,” positive though the spin of the latter ultimately is.

Based in Bytów in the northern part of the country — maybe an hour by car from the coast of the Baltic Sea — The Black Thunder bring catchy and straightforward songwriting to sharp-edged but still-weighted tones and gruff vocals. In the riffing of “Life Wasting,” for which the video has been made, one can hear shades of Down, but that influence is whittled to a fine point in its production and delivery, and even in the song’s solo section, there’s little to no sense of indulgence. The hook, “If I could give you all advice/Don’t waste your fucking life,” arrives on time and on the beat, and as it chugs past the four-minute mark, it’s only one of four cuts of the total 10 to do so, and followed by the three-minute “The King,” which has both extreme metal-derived squigglies in the guitar and a genuine mosh breakdown. Aggression rules the day and, aside from the professional consistency and crispness of the production, is largely what ties the songs together.

As those who’ve hung around a while know, I’ve been a long-distance admirer of Polish heavy for a long time, and The Black Thunder bring to mind precisely why in their blend of influences from the US and Europe and their own country’s rock and underground history. The impact of Visions in Black is all their own, however, and if you’re looking for a bit of something mean with some grit to it, then by all means dig into the “Life Wasting” video below.

And please, enjoy:

The Black Thunder, “Life Wasting” official video

First full-length album of The Black Thunder – “Visions in Black” 2017 available at: http://www.greenlungs.pl/produkt/the-black-thunder-visions-in-black/

Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/theblackthunderpl/
Bandcamp profile: https://theblackthunder.bandcamp.com/

Direction and editing by: Dariusz Felu?
Photos: Dariusz Felu?, Alicja Korus
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Music video from “Visions In Black” CD album 2017.

The Black Thunder, Visions in Black (2017)

The Black Thunder on Thee Facebooks

The Black Thunder on Bandcamp

The Black Thunder at Green Lungs Records

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