The official video for the song "Amnesiac" from KAMELOT can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's latest album, "The Shadow Theory", which was released on April 6 via Napalm Records. KAMELOT stated about the Ivan Colic-directed "Amnesiac" clip: "We are constantly receiving tons of information from all directions and it is telling us how to be, what to do and what to want... So is the reality we are navigating every day even real?... That's a question we all might wanna ask ourselves from time to time..." The follow-up to 2015's "Haven", "The Shadow Theory" was helmed by acclaimed music producer Sascha Paeth and mastered by Jacob Hansen. Guests on the album include Lauren Hart (ONCE HUMAN), Jennifer Haben (BEYOND THE BLACK) and Sascha Paeth. The amazing cover and artwork was created by Stefan Heilemann. KAMELOT founder and guitarist Thomas Youngblood previously called "The Shadow Theory" "a psychological journey through the complexity of the human mind. We are subjected to stimuli constantly through media, technology, social experiments and AI," he said. "Can we still be social creatures in the near future? 'The Shadow Theory' is an album that is mixing many worlds, giving the listener an ecape within our own realities. This album was written and recorded over the entire year and we are really proud of the song elements and diversity on 'The Shadow Theory'." KAMELOT vocalist Tommy Karevik told The Psychosin Project that "The Shadow Theory" should "definitely" be viewed as a continuation of "Haven". "There are some similarities," he said. "We felt we weren't done with that kind of sci-fi, dystopian, futuristic platform. We felt we wanted to explore that a little bit more on this one. We all love sci-fi, and the future is so exciting — you don't know what's going to happen — so for us, it was a no-brainer. When Thomas decided to base it around Carl Jung's shadow aspect, the psychological aspect that everyone has a shadow, and unless you embody it, the darker and bigger it gets, that was a very interesting starting point, psychologically, for the whole theme. Then we decided to not make a story like '[The] Black Halo' or 'Silverthorn' was, where you can follow characters, but more loosely based theme — how we portray the world, basically." KAMELOT recently parted ways with longtime drummer Casey Grillo and replaced him with Johan "Jo" Nunez. The band has just completed a North American headlining tour with DELAIN and BATTLE BEAST. Photo credit: Tim Tronckoe
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