Hungarian instrumental progressive rock band GHOST TOAST released a new music video Get Rid Of. The track is taken from their fifth studio album Shade Without Color which was released earlier this year via Inverse Records.
The band comments: “Get Rid Of is the opening song from the new Ghost Toast album called Shade Without Color (released on March 3rd 2022 via Inverse Records).
We believe that everyone wants to get rid of at least some of their burdens – we use music to get free from most of them and hope that others can use our music for something similar. The Woman played by Zsuzsanna Nyeste, the video is made by Tamás Varga from Brownhandfilm.”
Hungarian experimental progressive rock band GHOST TOAST is set to release their fifth studio album Shade Without Color on March 3rd 2022 via Inverse Records. The third single and music video Leaders is released today and video for it is available below.
The band comments: “Leaders. Yes. These ones. Go figure. Any questions?”
“The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don’t think that the old saw about ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.”– Frank Herbert
Hungarian experimental progressive rock band GHOST TOAST is set to release their fifth studio album Shade Without Color on March 3rd 2022 via Inverse Records. The second single Chasing Time is released today and video for it is available below.
The band comments: “Chasing Time is contemplating about things you can’t change in the past, have to live with in the present and you either want or don’t want from the future.”
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Hungarian experimental progressive rockers GHOST TOAST are set to release their fifth studio album Shade Without Color on March 3rd 2022 via Inverse Records. The first single “Get Rid of” is released today and it can be listened on streaming services:
“Get Rid Of is some kind of a battle cry – who the enemy is, is up to you! We wanted this song to be a fast and heavy opener with a sad vibe that turns into a desire for freedom.
Shade Without Color is the follow-up for our 2020 album Shape Without Form. The majority of the songs were written at the same time, and we intented it to be a sort of a „double-album”, in which the two would come out at different times. Both titles come from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men and both albums mostly deal with the subject of emptiness, the process of becoming empty – only to an extent which suits an instrumental material, of course.
The basis of thought behind the album is not the actual state of emptiness, it’s rather the things leading up to it – like personal fate, tragedy and weakness; the subject of authority; technology becoming impersonal; politics, alienated people; the feeling of being threatened.
This emptiness uniformizes, dissolves the individual, leaves humankind disenchanted and hopeless.
We look at both records as an illustration of this theme, this is mostly why we use (again) quotes from movies, interviews, speeches or poems. Our own thoughts and feelings are encapsulated within these and of course, within the music surrounding it. We also attempted though to resolve this mostly dark subject, as we do not believe that mankind’s fate generally would be hopeless and that there would be no way out. Darker parts lead to moments filled with more hope, while in the melodies and themes intented to be more beautiful and soft have a recurring dissonance, indicating this constant battle.
It because of this fact that we would omit writing in too much detail about every song, we believe a matching or an actually used quote should be enough to set the mood and give some ground to the concept behind the song.”
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” –George Bernard Shaw
Hungarian experimental progressive rockers GHOST TOAST have released a new music video W.A.N.T. (We Are Not Them). The track is taken from their fourth studio album Shape Without Form which is released via Inverse Records.
Band comments: “The samples used in the song are from the film version of George Orwell‘s novel 1984, directed by Michael Radford, along with Francis Ford Coppola‘s movie Apocalypse now.
WANT and its video explores the threat of becoming hollow, a thing that is threatening to all human beings, and how to avoid this threat. The video attempts to represent the lines of T.S.Eliot‘s poem Hollow Men through the images of a metaphorical journey as displayed in Apocalypse now, the hollow created by violence in the pictures of 1984, along with loneliness, hopelessness and emptiness portrayed by independent and amateur (nevertheless brillliant) sources of film footage.”
The lyric video was created by Gerő András Péter (Kill Monday Management), the background video used was done by the band, while the album artwork was created by Antal Miklós Tod.
The band’s album titled Shape Without Form was released on 3rd March 2020 by the finnish label Inverse Records. After the album’s release the band had its first change in membership, drummer Laszlo Papp was replaced by Zoltan Cseros (Zoma).
Hungarian experimental progressive rockers GHOST TOAST have released a second single & music video for ‘Y13’. The track is taken from their upcoming fourth studio album ‘Shape Without Form’ which is released on March 3rd 2020 via Inverse Records.
Watch Y13 music video here:
Bass player János Stefán comments:
“Y13 (Yankee 1-3): The loose concept of Shape Without Form album and this particular song is about being human/unhuman, avoiding becoming hollow, that threatens us all. The song which encapsules the “other” side of this band that critics so love to write about, inspired by movie composers like Hans Zimmer and John Williams, the symphonics make friends with the atmospheric and heavily riffed parts.
The voice samples are from the movie called Space Men (1960), directed by Antony Daisies (Antonio Margherit).
The video parts are from the amazing and thrilling Autodale series: “Being Pretty”, “No Monsters”, “Children’s Toys”, “Don’t Feed the Freaks”, “Model Citizen” by Dead Sound (David Armsby)”
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