“…a chilling, cinematic soundtrack addressing some of humanity’s greatest fears.” – Everything Is Noise
Everything Is Noise is hosting the exclusive video premiere for “The Hunter,” the ominous new single from Oakland, California-based cinematic synthwave act S.C.R.A.M. The track/video arrive ahead of the project’s ambient sci-fi horror-inspired fifth full-length, Coma Filament, approaching its release on the Fall Equinox.
The inspiration behind S.C.R.A.M. (Safety Control Rod Axe Man) has always been to make soundtracks for the movies in creator Pranjal Tiwari’s head. Coma Filament was inspired by a single image – a ghost ship in space. The idea of traveling in the outer reaches of space light years away from where any human has been before and encountering an abandoned spaceship became such an evocative and terrifying image, that it inspired the entire album. Space horror, in a loose sense. But there’s also an underlying sense of brooding and existential terror that comes from being in space, a vibe inspired directly by the Andrei Tarkovsky classic film, Solaris.
Tiwari performed all music on Coma Filament utilizing multiple synths, a sampler, guitar, bass, a mini-saxophone, and an array of effects and pedals. Additionally, Berlin-based American visual and musical artist, author, and the spiritual leader Zeena Schreck provides ambient vocals in the opening track “Forgotten Language.” The album was mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Autopsy, Ulthar, Leila Abdul-Rauf).
The haunting new video for “The Hunter” was created by David Brenner (Gridfailure, Diminishing). Speaking on the inspiration for the video, Tiwari quotes Event Horizon:
“Sensors aren’t picking up any signals. No movement. No signs of life.”
“The whole ship’s empty?”
“There’s no one here.”
“Then why do I feel like we’re being watched…?”
He elaborates, “The album Coma Filament is based on the idea of finding a ghost ship in space. It’s a tribute to classic space-horror movies like Event Horizon and Alien. Those films manage to convey a feeling of claustrophobia and confinement even though they’re set in the infinite vastness of space. I love that underlying tension of feeling penned in when you’re in the middle of the great unknown, in outer fucking space, and I wanted to create a similar vibe through music with this album.”
He continues, “‘The Hunter’ is the third track off the album, and it’s about boarding a derelict spacecraft, realizing that all your sensors are showing no signs of life, but not being able to shake that feeling that there’s something there. Something that’s watching you. Following you. Hunting you.”
Alongside the video’s exclusive premiere, Everything Is Noise writes in part, “‘The Hunter’ is in S.C.R.A.M.‘s classic musical style, combining elements of synthwave, ambient, and minimalist techno, resulting in a chilling, cinematic soundtrack addressing some of humanity’s greatest fears… Throughout the course of the video, Tiwari drifts through the psychedelic panorama of space, wide-eyed as he seeks solace in his keyboard amongst the crushing nothingness before him.”
Watch S.C.R.A.M.’s ghostly video for “The Hunter” first at Everything Is Noise RIGHT HERE.
Coma Filament will be digitally released on the Fall Equinox, Wednesday, September 23rd. Find preorders where “UR.IDIM” is playing HERE.
Formed in the isolation of the 2020 COVID lockdowns, S.C.R.A.M. is the solo project of Pranjal Tiwari. Known for his work with the long-running cult doom metal band Cardinal Wyrm, Finnish-language hardcore band Ransu’s Revenge, psychotropic techno outfit Warday, and more, Tiwari utilizes this project to create cinematic, experimental, ambient, electronic, and heavily instrumental passages, focusing tension and negative space to create immersive auras. With four albums, an EP, and a split record with Gridfailure, the outfit’s fifth album arrives with Coma Filament.
The album title Coma Filament is named for a galaxy thread that forms part of the Coma Wall, one of the largest known superstructures in the observable universe. Most of the track titles are based on deep space objects like planets, galaxy clusters, and constellations. “The Hunter” is another name for Aries, a constellation that we all know from the Western zodiac. The tracks “Seven Mansions Of The Black Tortoise” and “Flight Of The Vermillion Bird” are both based on Chinese asterisms, the names of constellations from traditional Chinese astronomy. “Haris al-Sama” means “the keeper of heaven” and is an old Arabic name for the red giant star Arcturus. Tiwari felt that naming the album and its tracks after these astronomical objects, and alluding to their historical and mythological significance, helped create an overarching structure and a background of awe and dread, a setting for the space horror story within the music.
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