Nightwish - Amaranth
One of my favorite songs. Nightwish is a metal band that picked Symphonic Metal as their genre. This can be distinguished from normal metal from the usage of instruments. The synthesizer is a big part of this.
In this video women are displayed as the main focus and men as supporting characters. The singer is displayed in a revealing outfit and has the background band has a bit more formal wear. Their emotions are also completely different: singer having more passive emotions with constant eye contact and the band having no eye contact with very aggressive movements that display anger.
This could be related to the other half of the music video that focuses on escorting a fallen angel. The angel is found by 2 boys. While they carry her, the main focus is always on the angel and the boys are on the side. Similar way the angry villagers are also displayed briefly in closeups showing their anger and disgust.
The interesting part about this video is that the Nightwish band is displayed singing and playing underground. The fallen angel is presented as something clean and pure but becomes hated by the people, only the boys caring for her. This could be interpreted as the authors fear of being hated by people and then becoming something greater and overcoming those fears. It's a pretty dark world view since it feels like everyone is scared of something new and try their best to get rid of it.
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