We love music videos, the wilder the better. You start with great music; Gnome’s music video for The Ogre hits all our buttons.

It’s metal, but with saxaphones. It’s a story song, but without an ending (in the song itself, anyway, in the video they do manage to squeeze one in). From the moment this bunch of loser gnomes wake up in the middle of the forest to being chased and eaten by an ogre ten times their size, this remarkable music video delivers some amazing visuals. And, I have to confess, even with my personal background in feature animation, I can not for the life of me figure out how the animation was done. The models look like claymation, but move like motion capture sometimes, and like marionettes at other times. Some parts were probably animated by hand.

Music videos are always about the music, though, and Gnome doesn’t disappoint. After the animated sequence, when they emerge from the belly of the ogre, into a … forest? What happened to the Ogre? Never mind, it’s a music video. It doesn’t have to make perfect sense … we get an instrumental stretch that includes some really powerful saxaphone, which is something you don’t normally think about with respect to metal.

Anyway, you’re going to love this. It’s weird, it’s wild, and the music is something you can put on repeat.

It’s all from Gnome’s upcoming album “Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome”. Out September 13th, 2024 on Polderrecords.

• Release show tickets: https://bit.ly/3zp27Ig
• Stream The Ogre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6Xrev6…

Recorded & Mixed at Bear Bites Horse, London, by Wayne Adams Mastered by Larsson Mastering Sax solo by Vincent Brijs

Video by WALBEIR INDUSTRIES

LYRICS

We walk through the forest
as quietly as we can
Suddenly there’s a mighty squeeze
we are picked up by a monstrous hand

Caught in the clutches
of a hungry foe
With a grip like iron
it will never let go

Squeezing with its fingers
we cannot escape
Must come up with a mighty plan
to get out before it is too late

Caught in the clutches
of a hungry foe
With a grip like iron
it will never let go

Lifting us higher
it will swallow us whole
Through the acid fire
into the belly we go

In the ogre we will die
Can we still escape our fate
In the ogre we will die
Can we still get away

Slicing through the entrails
as we cut our way free
Finally we can see the sky
shining through the belly of the beast

Caught in the clutches
of a hungry foe
With a grip like iron
it will never let go

Lifting us higher
it will swallow us whole
Through the acid fire
into the belly we go