North Carolina progressive sludge metal juggernaut Ape Vermin have released a brand‑new lyric video for “Awakened,” the eighth and most explosive track from their latest EP, Andromedas Colossus, released in 2024. The video was crafted by Kenji Tsunami of Tsunami Films, known for his visual work as well as his role as bassist for Narcotic Wasteland
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“We’re back, and we’re making up for lost time,” the band say about the song. “Hell has come back to life. The Colossus is awake.”
Kenji Tsunami’s visual interpretation amplifies the track’s themes of cosmic destruction, ancient forces, and the return of something colossal and malevolent. The lyric video mirrors the EP’s overarching atmosphere, dark, prophetic, and unrelenting, while giving fans a deeper look into the world Ape Vermin has constructed across the record,
The EP has been in development for nearly five years, taking the listener on an epic celestial journey.
“‘Awakened’ represents the EP’s thematic eruption,” the band explain. Influenced by outer‑space phenomena, extraterrestrial lore, prehistoric myth, murder, psychedelics, and sci‑fi horror.”
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