Birth - Long Way Down (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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"'Long Way Down" is one of the darker tracks on the album. It was written out of frustration at the state of the world," says Birth's Conor Riley. "It’s really about watching the slow decline and trying to hype myself up for the end of it. For the video, we wanted a vintage vibe that captured the darker and chaotic theme of the song. We worked with Vince Edwards who really helped us develop that vision."
Featuring guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Riley and guitarist Brian Ellis, musicians who burst onto the prog-psych scene in the late aughts with Astra, a formidable, foundational group hailed as "prog goliaths" (AllMusic), who would shape the sound of things to come alongside co-conspirators such as Earthless, Diagonal and Dungen, and whose albums ‘The Weirding’ (2009) and ‘The Black Chord’ (2012) stand proud as two of the greatest progressive achievements of this century thus far, there is a palatable excitement surrounding Birth and the group has been pegged as one to watch in underground circles. Excitement surrounding the group kicked into a gear once a now-deleted demo ep was unleashed, on a pay-what-you-will basis, on the Bandcamp platform in 2021, which marked the spark of creation for the Birth universe, delivered a blast of vibrant progressive rock rich in cinematic scope and psychedelic intensity, and laid the groundwork for what was to come.
“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world” . So wrote Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, arguably the first science fiction tale. A full 204 years later, the quest remains - how best to elucidate our daily lives with some form of inspiration that moves the spirit beyond its earthly shackles? On 'Born', Birth musically and creatively constructs a science-fiction-inspired sound-world in which bleak tumult and skybound rapture co-exist. The result is an intoxicating album haunted by earthly concerns while its sonics aim simultaneously for the stars.
"I’m a scientist by trade and I read a lot of dystopian sci-fi, which I believe is relevant to many of the events that have been occurring lately," notes Riley. "These views feed a dark, spiritual and mystical relationship that I have with scientific thought”.

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Wow metal blade, good for you for putting this out !

[@travezripley]

I love Birth, just like you and Every Human alive on this Planet!

[@ProgRockDan1]

Unique sounds

[@jimmyknight1609]

This looks like it was made in 1971

[@burgercore]

When somebody tells you they don’t make good music anymore, you play them this

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🔥🤘🔥

[@radekgmyrek9937]

Super zespół

[@DIZMA.]

I feel like I just traversed a discord of insanity into understanding and resolve. Interesting!

[@krisdaschwab912]

Yeah, I'm into this. It sounds so familiar, yet so fresh. Zapraszamy na koncerty w Polsce!

[@MrTRN80]

Very good song by Birth.

[@darkabyss83]

changing straplocks and smoking doobies and this popped up. pretty cool

[@SeabeeBuckeye]

😅👍

[@asadshabbir3913]

Brilliant sabbath + Floyd grunge riffs

[@danielgreen2788]

Rejectin the times with style

[@motocattie5242]

Awesome, but that Gibson is being played upside-down. Heheh.

[@DP-bb3my]

👍

[@nazzout]

Firrrreeeeeeeeeeeee

[@windrider6124]

Is this a Goo Goo Dolls cover? 😜

[@metalbladerecords]

As great as a 70s prog cover of that song would be, it is not a Goo Goo Dolls cover!

[@krisdaschwab912]

Have you heard the Megadeth cover of Iris?

[@JoseAguayoJim]

Jhonny : freakin beatch liar... Tim : First time!?

[@danielraum]

1.5 👌 So acid

[@shed_number_xii]

Crimson Sabbath would be a fitting name for this band

[@timbrawdy2249]

Deep purple?

[@Ihavenoideawhatthisevenis]

I feel like Charles Manson would have listened to this

[@TheDemonation13]

:(

[@EddyEP2]

There sure are people that like this….I’m certainly NOT one of them🫢

[@brianellis9694]

Put on some coldplay and vibe out

[@lucassegall6868]

I feel bad for you, Eddy!

[@EddyEP2]

@@lucassegall6868 don’t feel bad for me, there’s enough music out there that I enjoy 🤟🏻 the reason I subscribed to METAL blade is because I like METAL, and this has, clearly, nothing to do with metal🤣

[@haroldaling5422]

@@EddyEP2 This (style) has everything to do with metal. Without this, there would be no metal. It's ok not to like it, but it's not ok to say that this has nothing to do with metal.