Thrash Metal horror-infused band Scarefield is composed of Simone Manuli and Markus Kristofferson. They recently revealed their latest single and accompanying animated music video for “Ancient Evil.” This track is part of their EP, Nightmare Tales, an H.P. Lovecraft-inspired project that conjures “a sonic realm of darkness and chaos.” They’ve previously released a Metal version of “House of the Rising Sun”, also from the EP.

Scarefield shares:

We’ve always been enthralled by the works of H.P. Lovecraft ever since first reading the story ‘The Call of Cthulhu’. It’s been a great pleasure as musicians to try and put the feelings of cosmic dread we’ve felt reading the stories to paper and into the music itself. When writing the song ‘Ancient Evil’ we wanted to make sure the dynamics of the song fit well with the lyrics and the progression of the story. Even the instruments provide feelings of doom and magnitude, from the chanting of the cultists in the chorus to the impending dread of the guitar solo.

It could appear like an easy listening metal song but the structure is more complex than expected: different bpms and time signature, from classic 4:4 to 5:4 and 7:4, several vocal lines and electric guitar layers, very fast double kick drum parts. It will remind you of many metal band styles: Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Blind Guardian. It’s what we were looking for and we hope you like it as we do.

The animated music video for “Ancient Evil,” was created by Andrea Mantelli and brings us a “journey through eldritch landscapes” where we encounter “otherworldly creatures.”

They add:

Since the story of the track ‘Ancient Evil’ was so important and could obviously not be displayed through a live action video, we decided animation was the way to go. The illustrations picked for the animations are meant to provide the listener with a sense the magnitude of the story in the song as a world-shattering event of cosmic horror as the high priest of the great old ones awakens!