Screamo bands Massa Nera and Quiet Fear recently released their great split LP Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles, which alternates between the band’s three respective songs and culminates in a collaborative song between the two bands, and Massa Nera have now made a video for one of their contributions, “Division.” The band says:
When we were writing “Division,” three of us had relatives who were battling cancer, hence ‘division.” The title has a triple-meaning: Division as in unregulated cellular division; as in removing a part from the whole; as in a disagreement that produces tension.
By the time Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles, all three relatives had died. This video is a way of processing those losses via the exploration of fraudulent forms of healing (a motif in the lyrics) with an emphasis on the psychiatric and religious. The last section is a requiem, I suppose. My uncle grew up near the beach in South Jersey and had a deep love for the ocean.
I used footage from already-existing videos for the entire thing. Each source of footage was downloaded from YouTube, re-rendered so that the aspect ratios were consistent, and then datamoshed using Zwobot. From there, they were edited together in a manner that hopefully gave the video a sense of movement.
The video makes its premiere here and you can check it out below. Read our review of the split.
Massa Nera Tour Dates
-04/26 at Headliners (Louisville, KY) with Pageninentynine, Young Widows, and Plastics
-05/04-05 at Subterranean (Chicago, IL) for Zegema Beach Records Fest
Quiet Fear Tour Dates
Feb 16 – Rapid Skate Shop (Simi Valley, CA) (lineup tba)
Feb 18 – The Haven (Pomona, CA) (Screamo Fest)
March 8 – with Rhododendron and Non Plus Ultra (more info tba)
March 17 – 1720 (Los Angeles, CA) (with Habak & Lagrimas)
Infant island weekender
April 21 – San Diego (Che Café)
April 22 – Los Angeles (Ghengis Cohen)
April 23 – Anaheim (Programme Skate & Sound)
May 24 – 1720 (Los Angeles, CA) (with Jeromes Dream)
July 5-6 – Nine Lives Warehouse (Oakland, CA) (Unnamed Screamo Fest)
