NEWS: Beyond the Styx premier “Never Ending War”!

French Metallic Hardcore outfit Beyond the Styx have thrown caution to the wind and shared a video for “Never Ending War”, a track which takes aim at the realities of global conflict and the systems that keep it in motion as the second single from their upcoming album “Divid“. That’s available on 8th May via Innerstrength Records, the band living in a dark and violent musical universe at the crossroads of Hardcore Punk, Thrash and even Death Metal.

Vocalist Emile states: “War has left me in a state of shock since I was a child… I have never understood, and I don’t think I ever will, in whose name or for what purpose we could possibly wish for the annihilation of our fellow human beings. What forces can truly operate in such a process?

One day, I had the idea to research how many armed conflicts were currently raging in the world… The ICRC estimates, according to its report, that there were approximately 130 armed conflicts worldwide in 2024 (more than half of them in Africa).

While my eyes were mainly fixed on the Eastern front, 128 conflicts whose existence I was unaware of were at work: killing, torturing, raping, starving, displacing, traumatizing, and taking millions of adults and children out of school across our world.”

“War is a massacre of people who don’t know each other, for the benefit of people who do know each other but don’t massacre each other” Emile says, echoing French poet and essayist Paul Valéry.

He continues: “When we take a step back from the atrocity of the images, we realize that no conflict truly and lastingly affects any people without a real economic stake. And that’s precisely where the problem lies… How can my own country simultaneously promote ‘human rights’ and be the world’s second-largest arms exporter?

‘If you want war, prepare for peace’ is the adage of modern capitalism, which, under the pretext of wanting to protect everyone from the fear of war at all costs, ultimately pits people against each other for its own benefit: the interests of the market.

We spend our lives convincing ourselves that life is priceless, while the price of peace only increases. At a time when the number of armed conflicts worldwide seems to be at its highest level since 1946, wouldn’t it be better for the West to start trying to make peace within itself before attempting to make peace with the rest of the world?

Never!”