Centurion Nine-Minute Video Ahead of Zappa Barka Gig
Belgrade metal band Centurion has released a cinematic video for 'Something Is Rotten in the Human Shell', and on Friday, October 23 it marks 15 years of its EP 'Virtuelno ognjiste'.
The new video from Belgrade band Centurion for the song “Something Is Rotten in the Human Shell” runs nine minutes, and according to Danas it took at least a year and a half to make. It was produced by Rezoterik Studio in a form the sources describe as a short film rather than a conventional music video.
It arrives just before the concert at which the band marks 15 years since its EP “Virtuelno ognjiste”. The show is set for Friday, October 23, at Zappa Barka.
Who worked on the video?
Danas reports that a large number of people took part, but that two women formed the core of the team. Sara Nenadic is credited with production, direction, editing, post-production, concept, screenplay and costume. Jovana Uzelac is credited with art direction, the role of director of photography, assistance in direction and editing, screenplay, set design, costume and post-production. Balkan Rock does not name individual authors.
The band had this to say about working with the studio:
“The crew from Rezoterik Studio, with incredible dedication, talent and will, has made a video that is at the highest possible level, both narratively and in production terms,” says the Centurion crew.
The statement is given as the source has it. More than the praise itself, what stands out is that the band measures the video by its narrative first and its production second.
What is the title about?
The sources do not describe the video’s plot, so we do not retell it here. The song title, however, sounds like a paraphrase of the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” about something being rotten in the state of Denmark. Whether the allusion is deliberate, the band does not explain in the statements available. Swapping the state for a shell moves the focus from society to the individual, but that is a reading of the title alone, not of a video we are unable to describe.
What does the Zappa Barka concert look like?
Centurion celebrates fifteen years of “Virtuelno ognjiste” on Friday, with local prog and thrash metal band Numen playing before them. Zappa Bar is at Kralja Petra 41, and the show starts at 9 p.m.
Ticket prices depend on where and when you buy:
- 1,300 dinars through the efinity service
- 1,000 dinars at Zappa Bar
- 1,500 dinars on the day of the concert
Reservations are taken by phone at 064 010 8011.
An EP anniversary paired with a video that, if Danas is to be believed, took more than a year to make has its own logic: the band turned a new song into a short film and gained a reason to return to its older release before the show. How much new and old material will mix on stage, the sources do not say.
