A Constant Storm: Dark rock opera and ants.

A Constant Storm is mostly very tiring, but the band EA Constant Storm is not tiring at all, the band only delivers very good music. The band is apparently obsessed with ants because their new single and album is called Ant. Ant (Including March Of The Soldiers) is the first track from Ant that was released on September 24th, 2022.

This video was created using both free-to-use stock footage, as well as footage from two institutions: Madhouse, in the form of clips from Hunter x Hunter, a 2011 series based on the manga of the same name, created by Yoshihiro Togashi, and the BBC, in the form of clips from documentaries that feature ants, such as Planet Earth and Planet Earth II, among others.

Deep down underground

Far from human sight

There they live and thrive

This society of workers

A secluded brood

Of loyal soldiers

Dredging earth and stone

In a hectic infinite march

From the depths of their souls

Not one thought can emerge

They live as slaves to their instincts

Meant to die at their own work posts

Antennae / compound eyes / hard thorax / mandibles

Heat sensors / night vision / hemolymph / air spiracles

Absent mind / zealous sight / robust limbs / common goal

Allegiance / devotion / synergy / unity

As a hypothesis

What could then happen if one

Awoke from its torpor

And gained identity?

Dear spectator

Come dive below the ground

Observe what may unfold

In this scenario

Recorded, Produced and Mixed by André Cardoso / Mindset Studios

Artwork, Layouts and Photography by Daniel Laureano

Tracklist:

1. Ant

2.  The Colony

3.  Chimeric Endeavor

4.  Vanity

5.  Cage Of Tunnels

6.  In The Frozen Vale

7.  Truthbending

8.  A Collection Of Endings And Origins

A Constant Storm is Army Marshal Daniel Laureano: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Midi Keys

Guests:

«Army Captain» André Cardoso: Drums, Additional Keys, Soundscapes

«Army Lieutenant» Maria Ana Guimarães: Piano

Ant is the third full-length album by the Portuguese musical and artistic project A Constant Storm. A dark rock opera that follows the story of an ant that gains human mental traits, the record features a mix of gothic rock and 70’s progressive rock, with sprinkles of doom and ethereal wave.

Soldier, a working ant from an underground colony, develops human consciousness after being infected by a virus – created by humans as an experiment. Obsessed with his newfound hunger for fame, and realizing that this new mental state had left him unable to keep living in the ants’ net of underground tunnels, he manages to escape, arriving at an icy cave at the verge of the upper world, where he is finds himself in the presence of a bizarre totem that resembles his features.

Sensing a dark omen, and after pondering whether he should truly leave the underground, Soldier finally reaches the surface, only to come tumbling back down, due to the unexpected weight of the world’s scale.

Crashing back to the cave, he is left frozen, taking the place of the previous totem – the corpse of an ant that had previously tried the same as him -, and which had since sunk into the ground, leaving the inglorious place free for its new occupant.

For fans of Katatonia, Unto Others, Paradise Lost, Soror Dolorosa, Faith and Muse.

Music and Lyrics by Daniel Laureano

Recorded, Produced and Mixed by André Cardoso / Mindset Studios

Artwork, Layouts and Photography by Daniel Laureano

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