French metallers Gorod have unveiled a brand new video for the track "The Mystic Triad Of Artistry", taken from their latest album, A Maze Of Recycled Creeds.

Director Gautier Roscoet comments: “This video clip is a tribute to the basics of performance: drama. It was shot in Théâtre de La Couronne (Charentes). Neither staging nor visible cut were used in this kind of sequence-shot which purpose was to insert multimedia references. There is a constant play and marriage with classic and more contemporary allusions. The gesture of Chaplin and Keaton are the starting point for the set design and the various comic devices, adding the frenzy of Warner Bros cartoons. One notice also references to video games like Street Fighter 2 and Guitar Hero. We can also point the use of onomatopoeia image like the Batman series with Adam West, the flying kiss from Roger Rabbit and others... The guru appearance at the end of the clip is a caricatural illustration of the Rosicrician Order. His violent elimination reflects the lyrics and the excessive speech of Joséphin Péladan, thus particularly derided by the band members. In the end, the storyline is fairly simple : Julien (Gorod's singer known as “Nutz”, which fits perfectly to his role) plays a terrible troublemaker who can't help annoying his fellows. At the climax of chaos between all band members, Barby (the bassist), slays the guru to put an end to the troubles and restore friendship.”

According to a press release, A Maze Of Recycled Creeds, the near-fifty-minute-long work of diabolic genius, is based on unfathomable fantasies created by various secret societies and mystical orders, and spews forth eleven tracks of arthritis-inducing riffs, spiraling, harmony-rich fret decompositions, surgically-precise time shifts, blasts, brawn and an incessant barrage of malicious vocal onslaughts.

Elaborates the band of the record's concept, "A Maze Of Recycled Creeds speaks of the fraternity of the Rose-Croix, specifically via the works of Sâr Merodack Joséphin Péladan (1858 -1918), a peculiar 'guru' claiming to have divine origins from Assyria..."