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Listen to the album here: https://band.link/MNTZMSWIM Support us on Bandcamp - https://mntzm.bandcamp.com/album/s-w-i-m In case you ever cared… “New You” tells the story of a space flight simulation experiment gone wrong. It also deals with the subject of Infinite technological progress produced by the human brain and limited by it’s consciousness. Plot In the alternative near future technologically advanced human society realises it is running out of resources on Earth and focuses all efforts on the potential colonisation of Mars. First piloted international mission to the Red Planet is being prepared for space journey involving an unprecedented leap through a wormhole in the Space-Time Continuum. The possibility of such leap is based on the latest technology developed by the giant international research facility - EATF (Experimental Academy of Transcosmic Flights). It was used in the design of the new space-time flight simulator built around the module using advanced neuro-sensory stimulation, which allows the crew to fully experience a future transcendent flight. 3 Mars explorers - Crew captain, Pilot and Engineer - are subjected to the new simulation. It begins as planned. Captain’s mind successfully experiences a chain of realistically simulated events: crew finishing all trainings, cheering media and spectators on the launch day, space ship taking off, navigating towards the wormhole. However during the wormhole leap simulation Captain’s consciousness fails to cross the transcendental threshold correctly and regresses into a state of horrible hallucinations. His mind - unable to process an advanced level of signal - falls back on historically familiar and primitively driven motives from the past resulting in a cocktail of macabre sensations. Instead of Mars Captain sees his ship performing a hard landing on what appears to be a very different “Red Planet” - a field in Soviet Russia around 1920-s. The place and time ruled by sweeping revolutionary spirit and trigger-happy optimism of ruthless Red Army commanders justifying any means necessary in the name of building the new perfect communist world order. Quickly recognising the space travellers as “foreign elements”, soviet soldiers execute the crew at dawn. Hallucinatory death sends dissociating shock-waves through Captain’s brain causing him to come to his senses. Trip within a trip Similarly to professor in Ken Russel’s “Altered States”, our heroes act in the name of progress but are confronted with brutal archaic forces. Which translates into the deeper lever of Captain’s trip, which is loosely based on the story from Aztec mythology. One also dealing with lack of resources and involving a dangerous encounter with a brutal nemesis. When gods ran out of bones to create new people, they have sent Quetzalcoatl (and his brother) to steal the bones of the previous generation of gods from Mictlantecuhtli (God of the underworld). Just like the Red Commander in our story, Mictlantecuhtli (flanked by his dog Itzcuintli and flesh eating monstrous deities Tzitzimimeh) wasn’t too happy about it. In the climax at dawn the space crew Captain repeats Quetzalcoatl’s fall into the pit which also gives him advantage. In our case - returning his mind from the hallucinogenic labyrinth. P.S. Story and script were written back in late 2020, before our album S.W.I.M. came out. Well before the war changed everything in 2022 making us leave our home country… Back then horror was not real, it was a mere premonition. The clichéd DNA of being a doom band. A doom band from a doomed land… guess the joke’s on us. CREDITS This video has been made completely independently by a group of likeminded artists. We are endlessly thankful to everyone involved: Story Ilya Boots Director Evgeny Shishkin - https://www.behance.net/EvgenyShishking Art Director Vladimir Snegotskii - https://vimeo.com/waldez Animation Elena Kontuzova-Vant...