Paenil Era: New Video Out Ahead of ‘A Wilting Fountain’
Ahead of the release of their upcoming full-length album ‘A Wilting Fountain’, Romanian post-black metal project Paenil Era has released a lyric video for their new single, ‘The Scene’.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l2c6KhEgnU
The Scene is a dive into a mind that experiences the world as predatory and fractured. Self-alienation turns into an imaginary persecution, moral posturing and desire for revenge. The song shows how self-disconnection fuels social division, and how victimization leads to avoidance, creating a decadent scene where everyone feels hunted and yearns for violence.
Founded in Timisoara, Romania around 2012, Pâenil Era represents an anagram of the Romanian words ‘Pâlnie Rea’, which translates to ‘Bad Funnel’. Symbolizing a broken or partly functional filter that takes in a flow of subconscious dark thoughts, it represents an attempt to connect with the subconscious and give a voice to the dark side of the psyche.
This single introduces the following album, ''A Wilting Fountain', which shines a light on the earthly, the liminal and the spiritual, using an old Romanian carol as its opening incantation and guide. The thread running through all five songs is self-confrontation: starting from the noise of the outside world and moving inward, until the only thing left to face is yourself.
The album will be released September 9th via Neuronoir on CD and cassette, and will be available on all major streaming platforms. Pre-orders are now open here: https://www.neuronoir.art/shop
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/paenil.era
Paenil Era
Representing an anagram of the romanian words ‘Pâlnie Rea’, Pâenil Era is a post-black metal project from Timisoara, Romania, which started in 2012 initially under the name Signatura Rerum. Symbolizing a broken or partly functional filter that takes in a flow of subconscious dark thoughts, it represents an attempt to connect with the subconscious and give a voice to the dark side of the psyche.
