NEWS: OTUS light the torch once more!

Taken from a concept album in “Torch” that you don’t need to fully understand to enjoy, Rome based Sludge toned Post-Metal unit OTUS have shared a music video for “Apnea“. The record focuses on “The Fourth Way” introduced by philosopher and mystic Georges Gurdjieff. The Fourth Way is a system of elevation and development of the man that differs from the other three ways identified by the mystic: Way of the Fakir, Way of the Monk and Way of the Yogi. These three paths based respectively on a material, emotional and intellectual approach are transcended, balanced and regenerated in a fourth path, where it will be the Will to illuminate the right personal orbit. The “Torch” is therefore an allegory on illumination through a work on our darkest and deepest self, where its fire will constitute the alchemical catalyst capable of deconstructing, purifying and then coagulating our new synthesis… got it?

The band comment: “In many cults or disciplines of spiritual realization, the process of elevation/enlightenment also involves breathing. The video, shot and edited by the photographer and video maker Serena Dattilo, is a cynical metaphor on the control of the latter, up to its total deprivation towards the search for a way of personal enlightenment that does not follow more conventional paths. A flame without oxygen is bound to end: what remains is an extinguished torch, but its prayer still manages to rise upwards through the smoke”.