THE BEAST

The War/Nothing More from the Altered States EP. A fever-dream assault on the senses, The War Nothing More tells the surreal experience of 4 men in the sudden throes of fighting for their northern home, burning to the ground by wildfire. Close to band's home town reality in 2023 but based in a strange alternate universe, this world is full of smoke, black charred forests and strange illusions. Apocalyptic, surreal and vibrating with strange energy. After being spit out of the belly of a narwhal, the men are in possession of the last 4 ‘seeds’ available to mankind (not revealed until the end) and they must travel towards their own demise across the desiccated landscape, surviving a dangerous and surreal journey to ‘plant’ the last ‘seeds’ in a specific location. There they will pay the ultimate sacrifice to initiate the regrowth of their charred world in a hot and searing fever dream. The real-life chaos of wildfires and evacuations that we experience first-hand last year created this unsettling strangeness in real-time. It was a messy, scary, disturbing, wild, incomprehensible, maddening, dangerous and disorienting experience for an entire population. We want to represent a fever dream version of our new reality as an act of personal catharsis that speaks to our reality that wildfires act as nature's regenerative agent and bring forth rebirth. Sometimes only through brutality and pain is life started anew. Song Released May 24, 2024 Video directed and produced by aRTLeSS Collective Produced with support from the Government of the Northwest Territories