So here it is, finally, the spectacular video for Gravitonas's second single "Religious." It's the instrumentation that really gets you. This is lead track of the Swedish electronic rock band's new electro-rock project, "The Hypnosis EP," which is also quite pleasant, if not earth-shatteringly good. It starts it's life as a celestial piece of piano/vocal that then resurrects the percolating beat and effusive choir. Gravitonas is an interesting concept.Gravitonas is a brand new Stockholm-based music project, fronted by lead vocalist Andreas Öhrn and celebrated record producers and songwriters Alexander Bard and Henrik Wikström. Gravitonas is actually a mix between Gravity and Tonality. Gravitonas has quickly become a leading name in the Scandinavian electronic music scene. Apparently Gravitonas means "hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity in most models of quantum gravity theory." Bard has called it his 'rock project' and, according to Electronordica it'll be electronic rock music which is darker and 'deeper' than Bard's previous work.
"Religious" is a four minute blast of brilliance! Any idea of traditional song structure is out the window – it's a composition of music presented to you how they want it presented. It begins as a melodious ballad, backed with a beautiful piano and delivered with a heartwrenchingly melancholic melody. And then the beat kicks in! Soft at first, to accompany the next set of vocals, and then an even bigger beat rears its head. The favorite part though is the middle section of the song, which is then repeated again for the last minute. It's a gloriously mixture of choir chants, almost falsetto vocals from Öhrn, and a stunning arrangement of dramatic chords and dark beats. It's the audio equivalent of a horror theatre dream sequence on a pleasant chemical high! Ghosts, red curtains, masks, screams, and ballgag image, interspersed with angels, harps, white robes, and cherubs! It's all very spell binding and totally beautiful.
Lyrically it's quite epic too. Praying to Idols, kneeling before Apollo, believing in magic, begging favours from ghosts, being a soldier of sin, and ultimately – "when I'm back on the dancefloor, I'm religious!" When the debut single is so good, the second single is difficult. But Gravitonas have pulled it off perfectly. "Religious" is absolutely wonderful. Ecclesiastically so! The song grows, breathes and evolves into such a frenzy of ecstasy that it is very hard not to drop to your knees and pray. Attempting to avoid the cliché image of a fixed-member rock band churning out records, promoting and touring in a loop, Gravitonas is working towards a more original band model better suited for the web-, mobile- and streaming-dominated environment of the music industry beyond 2010. More musicians and actors will gradually be introduced in Gravitonas.
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