{"id":95915,"date":"2022-09-28T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=95915"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:40:37","slug":"the-agonist-drop-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=95915","title":{"rendered":"THE AGONIST &#8211; Drop New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>THE AGONIST<\/strong> has just unleashed a new music video for the track &#8220;Immaculate Deception&#8221;, taken from their Juno nominated EP, <em>Days Before the World Wept<\/em>, out now via <strong>Napalm Records<\/strong>! Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0CM3IvuTuRk&amp;feature=emb_title\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Vocalist <strong>Vicky Psarakis <\/strong>says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Immaculate Deception&#8221; is a song about societal pressure and feelings of remorse over time.<\/p><p>The main point I want to highlight is the concept of time and the fear that comes with it. We all reach a point where we start noticing that we&#8217;re aging. In current society, there&#8217;s a big push to try and preserve our physical state. There&#8217;s a huge movement of cosmetic procedures and products that promise us &#8220;eternal youth&#8221;. People like to think that they can keep reliving their 20s, instead of embracing the natural course of life and the challenges and rewards that come with it.<\/p><p>To bring this vision to life, we focused on our main character coming face to face with different versions of herself: her naturally aged older self chasing her with an imaginary &#8220;mob&#8221; (representing society) and her unrecognizable cosmetically altered self staring at her through the mirror. She ultimately realizes she cannot run anymore.<\/p><p>Remorse is a powerful feeling and influencing factor for a lot of our decisions, but the fact is you can never go back in time and change the things you&#8217;ve done. All you can do is learn and push yourself to be better over time.<\/p><p>To thank all our fans who directly donated money for this video to be made, we added their names to the credits. We could not have done this without you!<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE AGONIST - Immaculate Deception (Official Video) | Napalm Records\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CM3IvuTuRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE AGONIST has just unleashed a new music video for the track &#8220;Immaculate Deception&#8221;, taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95917,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915\/revisions\/95917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}