Prepare To Enter A Decaying & Twisted World As DIRE THORNS Throw Us Into Their Darkness With 'Kartina'

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As much as we all love us a good musical track from a band, you can’t beat a good old fashioned music video to accompany it. So naturally, when Jake McCabe of Dire Thorns pinged the DT fans to promote the music video for latest single ‘Kartina’, I felt inclined to check out it. Thus creating the two-part review below

Musically, ‘Kartina’ carries on the elements of Nu-Metal meets Industrial Metal that Dire Thorns utilise to create their own sound. The track felt like an early days Korn track with its gritty sound and haunting vibes. There’s an almost ballad-esque style to the song, jumping between eerie clean vocals and dirty growls that create an eerie atmosphere as you delve deeper into the madness of the world Dire Thorns create through their music.

The Korn-esque vibes come through in the bass riffs that you can hear - especially near the end of the song with the Fieldy style playing – but you also get elements of the early Slipknot days with equally heavy riffs and drum patterns. ‘Kartina’ is a song where the bands that influence Dire Thorns  shine through and highlight a younger band that is touching on styles of times past to induce a sense of nostalgia in metal fans.

And whilst the song itself is eerie, dark and somewhat grotesque (in a good way of course), the accompanying music video highlights these themes further with its shadowy tone and mysterious creatures that populate it from start to finish. The video, created by one idoblenderstuffs, feels like a homage to Static-X’s ‘Push It’ whilst also reminding me of Phil Tibbett’s ’Mad God’ movie. As before, we’re met with interesting but mysterious creatures in a dark and desolate world that is full of industrial chaos and rusting decay. Considering the overall tone of the track its accompanying, Dire Thorns and idoblenderstuffs have managed to bring their creative minds together to present what is the perfect video for the track.

When you’re presented songs like this by both young musicians and young creatives, it goes to show the future of metal is in good hands. Dire Thorns have never been ones to shy away from bringing a grotesque (again, in the good kind! Not the ‘please, seek help from someone about the things you’re doing!’ kind) sound to the current underground scene, and ‘Kartina’ is another example of how dark their creative powers are willing to go.