Crest Of Darkness Posts "My Black Bride" Video

Crest Of Darkness today presents the video for "My Black Bride," a special song that Ingar Amlien wanted to dedicate to his wife Laila, who wore a black wedding dress when the couple married over ten years ago.

It is a particularly unusual choice for the band, not only because it is an instrumental, something the band has only recorded on two occasions over the years, but it is also a melodic, deeply atmospheric piece, totally different from the band's usual black / death metal sound.

Ingar Amlien comments: “I wanted to write a special song for Laila for a long time. She has supported me and my work for so many years, and without her I really don’t know where I would be today, and I knew right from the start that if I was to create this piece it would have to be totally honest. Something personal, and not the kind of rose-tinted love song that people tend to expect when you write a song dedicated to the love of your life.

"I tried to capture the feeling of romance and happiness, but at the same time I wanted to touch on something more 'forbidden' – the dark side if you like to think of it like that. Like most couples we have been through many experiences in the time we’ve shared together, both good and bad. But, unlike most couples, my work has always involved being 'in touch' with both life and death, something Laila has always been very aware of, so the difficult times take on a darker significance.

"I also knew that this song had to be an instrumental because words could not possibly express what I was trying to communicate with this song. I played the guitars myself – I felt I had to as these few notes I’m playing are so extremely personal. To the listener the song may sound like a simple, stripped down piece of music, which is what I intended it to be, but it comes from the depth of my heart and contains many small details that someone outside of the relationship I have with my wife cannot understand. It’s a heartbreaking piece, but as with all my music, there is something deeper behind it. There is my belief that inside all of us there burns a black flame – that special will to survive.”