History of Guns releases brand new video, ‘Last Train to Drug Castle’
History Of Guns
(Photo by Falguni Clarkson) The new History of Guns music video, “Last Train to Drug Castle”, premiers today on Side-Line. The video is both a remix of the dark ambient track “Drug Castle” from their latest album “Half Light” and a visual remix of footage from their recent short film, “Drug Castle”. The video builds on the dark story of a rumoured experimental and unethical psychological treatment centre, located somewhere on the coast of England in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Here’s the new video.
The “Last Train to Drug Castle” video uses footage shot for the Lynchian experimental film directed by Howard Gardner, which you can view below.
The track is also out as a 3-track single and holds three tracks in total: “Last Train to Drug Castle”, “Survive the Night (single mix)” and “Drug Castle (Instrumental Writing Demo)”.
The remix is inspired partly by KLF’s “Last Train to Trancentral” and partly by those late-night adventures after the pub closes, going on potentially somewhere exciting, potentially somewhere dangerous. History of Guns co-founder and keyboardist, Max Rael, says: “It was actually Michel from UTM, a key part of our promo team, who suggested we remix Drug Castle. I don’t think it would have ever occurred to me, but the idea bubbled away in my subconscious. And once I let go of the idea of a traditional remix, and approached it more like my favourite kind of episodic writing that goes on a journey and tells a story, I got more and more excited about it. It was a lot fun of an absolute joy to make both the remix and the video. I can’t thank Michel enough.”
Publicist Michel Rowland, from UTM Music Group, adds: “I have no idea what Max is talking about. I didn’t tell him to remix anything. I simply asked him whether there was going to be some kind of single mix or single edit of ‘Drug Castle’, because he came to me with this fucking bizarre short film, and I wanted to know how I was supposed to pitch it to DJs and radio. Max is utterly insane! I do love him, but he’s an absolute nightmare.”
The 3-track single ‘Last Train to Drug Castle’ is available from Bandcamp now.
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