Hi Hermank
I read on the web site of Hellion Records (the brazilian distributor of Ashes) about a video for the song "Equilibrium"...
There says it's already done, and will be release as soon as possible.
Is there anything in this information right?
Thanks for your attention
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The video was recorded in early January, yes. It was despatched to Europe, USA and Latin America in the beginning of February - but I don't know when it will be available. I have not heard anything about a release (for sale) - for the moment, it's only for TV.
The Mother Earth video was good imho, Memories too, but the new Ice Queen....pure horror... :)
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I haven't seen the Mother Earth video for a while. I thought the owl in it was pretty cool.
I believe that cure is one of the best songs in Ashes (if not the best).But it's all about tastes.... :)
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I totally agree. It was so great to see them perform Cure yesterday.
Shadowman is the one I cannot like... I don't know why, but I think it's the simple and weakest song in Ashes... but the majority in this forum seams to like it...
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dito, I don't like it either. It's just too ... hm
Nooo Mtv noo ... Wak!!!
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Did they play it on MTV??? :mellow:
Quotation "Östen Bergöy (Ville Valo style crooning) and Vibeke Stene (Amy Lee-esque operatics)"
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This is more than dreadful. Some people just shouldn't be reviewing, if they aren't capable of writing something constructive.
As it consideres MTV - I don't like it, I don't watch it and I hope Tristania won't ever get there, unless they'd wish so (which, hopefully, they won't.)
Bah another comparision to nightwish, i hope someone dies
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Or to Evanescence <_<
Anyone got disturbed that they zoomed in too much on vibeke? once thats understandable, but they did it too many freakin times
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It's quite nice that they zoomed on Vibeke, that's not the problem. The video somehow fits to the lyrics and Vibeke plays her role there. And Östen is also presented by the director of the video very often.
But - the cheap "photoshop" effects wich distrot their faces are not so nice. These effects could be left out and video would be look better :)
But - the cheap "photoshop" effects wich distrot their faces are not so nice. These effects could be left out and video would be look better :)
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I think some parts were filmed through shards of glass, just like the photoshoot.
I thought Østen mentioned something like that.
Tristania with "Equilibrium" is not half as cool as Nightwish with "Nemo" and "WIHAA"... B) Hehe.
Let's see, Nuclear Blast puts it's focus on their two main bands: Dimmu Borgir & Nightwish (IMO the DB vid owns NW's 'nemo' on all sides) and therefor have a large budget for those bands. SPV haves a lot of well-known bands and Tristania is just one of them.
I wouldn't be suprised the Equilibrium video is made with less than 10% of NW's budget.
But, this is my guess.
I think some parts were filmed through shards of glass, just like the photoshoot.
I thought Østen mentioned something like that.
Let's see, Nuclear Blast puts it's focus on their two main bands: Dimmu Borgir & Nightwish (IMO the DB vid owns NW's 'nemo' on all sides) and therefor have a large budget for those bands. SPV haves a lot of well-known bands and Tristania is just one of them.
I wouldn't be suprised the Equilibrium video is made with less than 10% of NW's budget.
But, this is my guess.
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I have to disagree a little bit concerning Nuclear Blast. OK, it seems to be true that Nightwish and Dimmu Borgir recieve all the best (Markus of NB is a big Dimmu Borgir fan). But Nevertheless, the other bands like Anthrax (e.g. video with Kenau Reaves), In Flames and Manowar get also big budget for their videos.
OK, these bands are also much more popular than Tristania.
But even smaller bands at Nuclear Blast get a good budget for their productions.
Concerning Tristania Video - surley the director of that Video got the most of the budget. I don't think that he would work "for nothing". He made videos for a real stars so he's not selling his skills cheap...
:)
What? Where? Who has a video with Keanu Reeves???? :wub:
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ANTHRAX - Safe Home ;)
(http://metalkings.ru/news/news/KeanuReeves.jpg)
(http://www.anthrax.com/images/KeanuFilmingWEB.jpg)
Concerning Tristania Video - surley the director of that Video got the most of the budget. I don't think that he would work "for nothing". He made videos for a real stars so he's not selling his skills cheap...
:)
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I really don't know, but to quote Kjartan (producer of the video): "I think our video was shot with the budget of Nightwish's catering for Nemo." Maybe he can
By the way, Manowar & Anthrax have big budgets on their own, I think NB only does their european sales. (Manowar's distribution is since recently being done by SPV, indeed: Tristania's label.)
I really don't know, but to quote Kjartan (producer of the video): "I think our video was shot with the budget of Nightwish's catering for Nemo." Maybe he can
By the way, Manowar & Anthrax have big budgets on their own, I think NB only does their european sales. (Manowar's distribution is since recently being done by SPV, indeed: Tristania's label.)
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Yes, I also think so, but I think that the most part of that "Nemo-catering budget" went to Ralf. By chosing an unknown or less known director for that video could have been saved a lot of money for the video itselfs. But don't get me wrong, it just my opinion based on the facts wich I know yet. Of course it can be wrong, and I don't want to tell what should have been done and what should not be... :)
And concerning Manower, yes, they changed to SPV not time ago and they were a short time at NB. Anthrax are so to say real metal stars so NB does everything to keep them on their lable :)
WACK!!! (http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/faint.gif)
About the Video:
I've seen the video and i LOVED IT! When I read there was a video I was going to kill myself from happiness... :lol: Vibeke you are always beautiful and Östen, I liked your part soooo much!! So intense..:wub: I would like to express my compliments to all the people who worked on it,
I am only disappointed that Kjetil Anders Einar Rune and Kenneth appeared only a few moments... :( well...let's wait the next video maybe there'll be more of them!!
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Yes, it would be nice to see all of the band in the video "properly" :)
If the Libre video turns out to be something like the Heretique video then I guess we won't see any bandmembers in there.
I think there are more interesting ways to do a music video than showing a band performing the song.
The Vibeke vs. Østen part worked great. The moody locations emphasised the atmosphere of the song.
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But it would be not so good if the band won't apear in the video...
There are good videos without the band appearing, e.g. the buffalo version of U2's 'One' or UNKLE's 'Be there'.
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Of course, but it could be allowed for the band who has a lot of videos.
The video gets more unpersonal, something distant to the band if it does not appear in that...
Equilibrium... this video was the one which gave me a strange desire to give Ashes another chance (i didn't like the album at my first listen). after giving it its second chance many of them followed afterwards until i developed some sort of addiction for it. nowadays i can't end my day without giving Ashes a listen... oh well now for the video... the video is pretty good, imo. not the best you can find but certainly very well worked and pretty moody. the duet between Vibeke and Osten is great, it gives the video some more atmosphere... overall it's a great video and i'm hoping the video for Libre will also show the band members clearly, all of them if posible :)
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A lot of "long time faves" albums are not "the love from the first sight ehm listening" :)
I'm hoping to see the band too :)
A lot of "long time faves" albums are not "the love from the first sight ehm listening" :)
I'm hoping to see the band too :)
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very true! actually i used to dislike 90% of my current favourite bands... including Tristania <_<
Has anyone figured out the plot for "Equilibrium"?
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sincerely i've watched the video a thousand times without finding any plot in it... i'm sure if it actually has a plot actually...
Because of the lighter he holds against it?
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:P
Well, yeah, but why does he do it?
to forget?
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to forget what? lol
But if they would have cut the place with the old man, I`d like this video very much. :D
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Yeah, I watched "Equilibrium" today on the TV and thought the same thing. I wish that maybe either they left out the old man, or the band shots. It seems as though they were a bit undecided as to what the direction would be for the video. Hopefully the "Libre" video will be better at this.
I don't know if you already known, but Equilibrium is on the MTV Brazil too.
Last Tuesday I watched for the first time on TV...
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MTV?! wow! well i don't watch MTV anyway so i have no idea if it's on MTV Romania or not... low chances though lol
You find them on www.tristania.com.
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Thank you... I did not look hard enough the first time... ^_^