Hey guys! So last semester I took storyboarding, and our final was to storyboard to a song. I decided to storyboard to one of my favorite songs The Prisoner by Gungfly. I’m pretty proud of the storyboard and I wanted to publish it somewhere, so why not here!
Eventually I want to make an animatic of it, though I don’t have the time to do it right now. So I’m thinking after I graduate, this will be my first project.
So! Play the song above and follow the storyboards below! I apologize for not writing the lyrics to the panels.
Sweden’s Pain of Salvation return with a new studio album entitled “PANTHER”, due out August 28th, 2020 worldwide via InsideOutMusic. Watch the video for Accelerator here:
Gazpacho have announced that their new album Fireworker will be out on the 18th September via KScope:
Conceptually, the album follows the band’s tradition of blending grand philosophical quandaries, stimulating literary leanings, and haunting personal turmoil. In a way, it acts as the culmination of the themes and techniques that’ve decorated earlier collections, combining the fatalistic isolation of Night and Missa Atropos; the ill-fated narrative drama of Tick Tock and Soyuz; and the hefty theological/scientific contemplations of Demon and Molok. Beyond that, its central premise (that humanity has always been controlled by an infallible and omniscient creature determined to propagate at any cost) means that Fireworker comes across like the overarching umbrella under which all of its predecessors occur.
Keyboardist Thomas Andersen elucidates: “There’s an instinctual part of you that lives inside your mind, separate from your consciousness. I call it the ‘Fireworker’ or the ‘Lizard’ or the ‘Space Cowboy.’ It’s an eternal and unbroken lifeforce that’s survived every generation, with a new version in each of us. It’s evolved alongside our consciousness, and it can override us and control all of our actions.” In order to get us to do what it wants, he clarifies, the “Fireworker” will silence the parts of our mind that feel disgust or remorse so that we’re unable to stop it. The conscious part of our mind, Andersen notes, will actually “rationalize and legitimize” those thoughts and actions so that we never discover the beast behind-the-scenes. No matter how we feel about ourselves in terms of identity, accomplishments, and value, we’re all just vessels—or “Sapiens”—that the creature uses until it no longer needs us. “If you play along,” Andersen explains, “It’ll reward you like a puppy and let you feel fantastic; if you don’t, it’ll punish you severely.”
Like Night, Fireworker is a single “trip” broken into five chapters but meant to be appreciated all at once. This time, however, Gazpacho’s recurring protagonist is investigating the labyrinthian hive of his own psyche to engage in a Bergman-esque confrontation with the “Fireworker.” This journey is even represented by the Wimmelbilder cover, which, as usual, was designed by collaborator Antonio Seijas and depicts “the billions of neurons that create the cave of the mind”.
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Rikard Sjöblom recently announced his new album under the Gungfly moniker, ‘Alone Together’ will be released on 4th September 2020 via InsideOut Music. Listen to the first single ‘Happy Somewhere In Between’ below:
Rikard and Diamant-brothers are releasing new material and personally that's all that matters 2020. I'm so happy and excited I can't wait to hear it.
I highly recommend everything he did in Beardfish (especially "A Sane Day" and "Sleeping In Traffic Part. 2) and (hammond & drums duo-)Bootcut. As for Gungfly I recommend "On Her Journey To The Sun"-album.
