In a blast of blackened hardcore, Copenhagen’s Anti Ritual makes a hard and depressing eco-political statement in their third track, “No Second Earth,” from their self-titled debut EP. From the velocity of the track’s opening frantic one chord to the explosion on the drums and the make-your-throat-bleed vocals, you know that “No Second Earth” is an impassioned statement about losing our planet and the hopelessness of trying to save it.
The track’s accompanying video (filmed, directed, and edited by Per Silkjær) uses stock footage of our planet from space and some gorgeous landscape scenes from what appears to be the ‘60s. Whether it’s the ‘60s or ‘70s, it’s a bygone era, one that’s lost, perhaps a representation of the planet that we, as humans, are bound to lose.
Check out the video in the player above, and then if you’re so inclined, order the Anti Ritual album. Anti Ritual is available on 12″ black vinyl in a run of 350 copies, and a limited run of 150 copies on white vinyl. Orders can be placed through sole U.S. outlet Earsplit Distro, Indisciplinarian in Denmark, and Vendetta in Germany.
Anti Ritual also has a few shows to check out this fall:
Anti Ritual Tour Dates:
9/05/2014 Bei Ruth, Berlin, DE
9/06/2014 Café Taktlos – Glauchau, DE @ Killed System Festival
9/07/2014 VeB – Lübeck, DE
10/30/2014 Loppen – Copenhagen, DK
10/30/2014 TBA – Gothenburg, SE
11/01/2014 KKSB – Helsingborg, SE
Rock Hard \m/
