Your Eyes and Ears Are Not Ready For This - Sonic Mayhem Doomsday Trailer
That headline is not written lightly nor meant to be sensationalism. You are quite literally not prepared for the audio visual assault contained in the four minutes of this video. Watch this at highest resolution and loudest volume. If loud volume is NSFW for you, wait, and enjoy it later. Seriously.
See you on the other side. I will have a dust pan to help you sweep up your blown minds.
Amazing, isn't it? If you are unfamiliar with the name Sonic Mayhem, it is the nom de guerre of composer Sascha Dikiciyan, who your ears should be very familiar with, especially if games like Mass Effect 3, Borderlands, Prototype, Hellgate: London and Space Marine have ever been in your video game system of choice.
What is so incredible about this video is, in case you didn't realize it, it is a trailer for an upcoming music release, entitled Doomsday. When was the last time you saw a trailer for an album? Let alone one of this scope, quality and creativity? The visceral nature of the analog controls, lights and effects make it feel so much more real in this age of digital everything. Director Isaac J. Rosenthal (aka @zyclotron) is obviously a mad scientist's lab creation, using the DNA of Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull. I kept expecting an H.R. Giger xenomorph to leap into the camera.
Sonic Mayhem's music is the point of this. From what we are being teased with, it is a welcome assault on the eardrums. Dikiciyan's punishing electronic creations straddle the line comfortably between anarchic noise and humanistic-machine melody. This is, quite literally, sonic mayhem. It is obvious even from the snippets contained in the video's soundtrack, that Doomsday is a future example of required listening of the Cyberpunk genre.
What Sonic Mayhem and video creator Rosenthal have done is seriously raise the bar in terms of getting peoples' attention. In the Information Overload Age, something like this that leaps out of the screen and speakers, grabs you by the collar and won't let go until the last moment is becoming rare to the point of near-extinction. The music industry (among other entertainment genres) should be taking notice.
I for one can not wait to hear the final product! Until Doomsday arrives this fall, watch and re-watch this video, here.
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