Thorium, is the brand new band featuring members of Belgium's legendary Heavy Metal band Ostrogoth! I have seen them on stage and they are really worth it! I can't wait to hear the new album: Empires In The Sun!
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Video directed, filmed, produced and edited by Sebastiaan Spijker.
Concept and story by Tom Tee.
Actresses (in order of appearance): Fiona Ployaert, Lynn Pauwels and Irène Klippelaar.
"The song ruminates on that arguably greatest of all life questions: which path to choose. Can you ever truly be certain that a given road, often picked among so many others, was the right one to travel by? Choices that not seldom seemed so right at the onset may just come back to haunt you, years or even decades after.
For all the drama this subject might seem to entail, though, the song is decidedly (and wilfully) upbeat, both lyrically and musically. Never wanting to succumb to overly gloomy sentiments, the overarching message, if one has to be settled upon, is that through all things, all we can (and indeed should!) do is persist, persevere, and – to coin the old English idiom – ‘get on with it!’
For the video, I wanted to present three characters, from the three main stages of life; childhood, adulthood, and old age – and leave it entirely up to the viewer, of course, to decide whether they’re the same person or rather three separate entities. Throughout the clip, I wanted to have them work off a number of elements that would be symbolic (if in a kind of tongue-in-cheek manner) of things life throws at you – contrary signposts that don’t seem to point you anywhere useful; a compass that simply keeps on spinning; and a little later in life, the watch that keeps on ticking, ever faster.” -- Tom Tee
