Darkangel - VnV Nation

[Tritium5678]

"There is no faith in which to hide.

Even truth is filled with lies."

[vnvangel70]

given time your understand..........

[thesermon31]

danke.

[666blooddevil666]

great song

[Missmountain97]

...What is this? Phantom of the Opera + Lord of the Rings? Both awesome movies, but seem weird together.

[advantage73]

BEAUTIFUL! ;-)

[LighterOfDewbies]

Went on a walk in the forest at night while listening to this song stoned.

Fucking amazing.

[utubes4u]

Another great tune from VNV and great vid to go with it.

thanx for upoad.

[Doctor699]

I did quite a bit of what is described here in this song, and i agree with it, and feel in a similar way.

[starXelfXyeshua]

want to watch Phantom 2004, LOTR, and POTC now. thx

[JimmyThePinecone18]

Good song, but the picture mashups are driving me crazy because they are pictures from totally different films.

[usuqamadiq]

5:03 MtG?

[usuqamadiq]

Enormous video. Thank you!

[DJZeraph]

VNV Nation - Illusion ( RMX by DJ Zeraph)

[starXelfXyeshua]

Hate to say it but Erik (the Phantom) is NOT gunna be happy that Christine is shagging Aragorn AND Boromir. hahahahaha...who is not gunna be happy that Liz Swann-Turner is also glomping Aragorn...who just broke Arwen AND Legolas' hearts....so, ummm...yah...why wasn't V in here someplace (from V for Vendetta)?

[skyforanangel]

Lovely greets from AngelGreat pics and a great song -

thanks for publishing it and wish a wonderful week.

Lovely greets from Angel

[pedro2811ify]

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[2010magicboy]

let's follow the survive

[zombyyycow7]

omfg i love you thank you for a video with some depth and not just matching pictures to music as seems to be the trend anymore.

[tribblehappy]

The song is fine, and the individual images are fine, but I'm not sure what the compilation as a whole is supposed to represent. Can somebody please explain the story behind the Phantom of the Lord of the 300 Rings?

[DevilBass2]

Thanks for that song, my first time to listen :)

[BrocoliBeatsTurtle]

what does the vnv stand for ? i heard illusion a few years ago and didnt thin much of the toher stuff but recently re discovered it and its aesome xD

[haircut74]

@BrocoliBeatsTurtle Victory Not Vengeance

[BrocoliBeatsTurtle]

@haircut74 THankyou :)

[7StarsFromTheMoOn]

I vamped out on this song did you!

[spiffyschmoo]

@7StarsFromTheMoOn Vamped out?

[djmusicjac]

sorry folks changed how i define this tune, now added to my alternative industrial new wave playlist

[djmusicjac]

wow, wow, wow, wow, wow I am huge fan of VNV Nation, this is the sound i was looking for NEW WAVE INDUSTRIAL SYNTH FUNK well done, keep up good work this sound is hot

[Thornageable]

Man i love this song the band and this vid great job and now that i said this and seeing That dude from Lord of the rings movies arent there surpose to make a movie/game about him "Aragon" i think is how you spell the name but i recall that.

[lewistheclark]

that was quire a photoshop adventure

[tadboy3]

this is the most catchy song i've ever heard. i dont even like it that much but i dont wanna stop listening to it lol.

[Wrackewn]

I used to sing this song when i used to sneak peas into perversion in __.

[DomSpens]

I love vnv nation and you've made a nice montage, I like the aragon/phantom, some of the other stuff is a bit ropey but on the whole you've put some nice images to good music...like.

[Prov31Leah]

19 Justin Beaver fans got disemboweled by King Elessar and the Opera Ghost

[akrivivivian]

super super super

[Dealunare72]

Bellissima..

[Dealunare72]

Bellissima...

[evelfa]

I love VNV Nation! All their songs tell a story or at least have a profound meaning to them! Unlike some of the crap that comes out these days!

[wheelgunjoe]

@evelfa We have to remember that the vast majority of music is made for the main stream masses, who do not wish to have any complex emotion, thought or value in anyting they take in. They simply want to be entertained through whatever mindless drool that they can mass produce. There are artists that are very passionate about what they do, and the ideals they hold dear. VNV Nation is one of these such groups.

[Ricamros]

I don't really get the connection between Aragorn, Keira Knightley(what ever she's portraying), and that chick from Phantom of the Opera, but hey, that's just me. I did fairly enjoy the video.

[ViewWatchGori19]

@Ricamros Her name is Emmy Rossum, and she's a great singer.

[Prov31Leah]

@ViewWatchGori19 Phantom of the Opera 2004 and LOTR are two of the best films in the world. :)

[paladinstorm]

@Prov31Leah I agree on the LOTR trilogy, but Phantom 2004? I know some pretty intense classic Phantom fans (as in, read the books, seen the musical, etc) who despised the casting in particular for not having classically-talented vocalists playing characters who are supposed to be exquisite singers. I've read the book, and went to a production of the musical once, myself, and I was able to follow their reasoning... All of them are supposed to be respectably talented, even Carlotta.

[holin3]

die sind soooo geil

[ViewWatchGori19]

Twilight is for boppy little preteens. Bram Stoker's Dracula and Interview with a Vampire are real vampire stories. I also enjoy John Carpenter's Vampires and Count Yorga.

[6Immortal6Fears6]

@ViewWatchGori19 check out vlad the impaler =D

[Jtrip2133]

@ViewWatchGori19 John Carpenter's Vampires...LMAO that is a great movie! [James Woods] "Hey Padre...when I was kickin' your ass back there...did ya' get wood?"

[Robi921991]

@ViewWatchGori19 You forgot the "Hellsing" Anime series (Normal + OVA) ;)

[JokeriSokeri]

@Robi921991 oh plz, anime sucks

[ArcaneArts]

@JokeriSokeri About as any other art medium out there, which is to say it's broad a subject to condemn flat out. It's like saying all oil paintings or American movies suck. It's just oo board subject for the statement ot ever be accurate.

[ArcaneArts]

@ArcaneArts Edit to last line: It's just too broad a subject for the statement to ever be accurate.

[JokeriSokeri]

@ArcaneArts But anime really does suck :(

[ArcaneArts]

@JokeriSokeri Except it doesn't. That sort of broad profiling is bullshit that closes off avenues of mental expansion and leads to bigotry. To discount all anime is to discount shows and movies that many people around the world(including many modern masters such as Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Nolan) regard not only as good art but high art, from the works Miyazaki to shows like Cowboy Bebop, Paranoia Agent, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Wolf's Rain and more.

Some anime sucks. But not all.

[gyqz]

@JokeriSokeri If you really think that anime sucks, then I invite you to go see Dante's Inferno and see if you have the same opinion on anime!

[ArcaneArts]

@gyqz That is a horrible example.

[gyqz]

@ArcaneArts Why?

[ArcaneArts]

@gyqz Dante's Inferno is already based off of a mediocre game that unashamedly butchered the first part of one of the greatest literary triologies ever(The Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, in case you aren't aware). The animation style is much more American based and it's pacing, narrative value, and characters are all flat and underdeveloped. The onyl reason the game does any good is because it's essentially a God of War ripoff.

If you like it, power to you. I don't care for it.

[namsivad]

This is pretty fantastic with the fantasy art slideshow, great job!

[DerMarcie]

ive only come here... seeking me.... shivers

[ForzaXnapoli]

i only come here...seeking peace

gets me the chills

[Loewchen66]

Hammer

[LunaOscura308]

GENIAL!!

[jadedrakerider]

Great video! It's awesome how you tried to tell the story through art (if I'm not mistaken, mostly LotR and Magic: the Gathering, correct?

I'm not sure that I got what you were trying to say, but the way you said it certainly made an impression!

[Tritium5678]

So Beautiful, So Perfect, So Right. it makes me cry.......

[neverilstarforce]

damm ¡¡¡ you put tears in my eyes...with this one very nice..

[NocturnalXTC]

Epic video friend, one of the best I've seen!

[talentagent653]

i only seek the peace of this song haha

[duaine187]

tWILIGHT KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT VAMPIRE'S

[MrRogers1987]

twilight is two ply and i wipe with two ply !!!!!

[ebaum5690]

@MrRogers1987 This man should be the fucking pres!

[gothicangelred]

FTW baby , lots of love.

[Darkgirl1977]

Hammer geiles lied top -

:-) so wie das lied heißt ist mein dj name - einfach klasse das lied

[Ariecael]

Im in a horrible situation! Assemblage 23 comes to my town in like 6 days. And I just heard that VNV is coming at the same damn time!! it sucks so bad, I wish I could some how see them both :-(

[Vorlos]

@Ariecael

wow dude, this REALLY sucks bad, i mean...daaaamn :/

[TheCheftk]

ty for sending this to me zig, i loved it!!

[vanfanel150]

yeah, I saw a Mirari :)))

[MsTerraX]

wow! das fetzt total!

[marcus1975b2b]

ist ganz gut.

[LadyDevelishWWEDiva]

Hammer Geiles Lied.

[Eternity699]

I love it

[TheKipper1970]

class tune!!!!! just how i am feeling!!!!

[MrStillKillin]

seen them in St Pete fl 6 years ago...lol he was sweating his ass off ....hehehehe

[NandeDattebayoo]

GREAT TUNE! The strokes in the beginning gives me the chills, it's so good!

[MrMetalmadness]

3:12 not 100% but is it the mirari from magic the gathering?? :)

[SEVERCEK]

@MrMetalmadness Correct =) good observation m8

[evlved1]

pretty terrible video, lol...  not to mention that Papyrus should be banned from the font world... that said, amazing song from an amazing band... easily the most powerful you'll ever see live (aside from Combichrist of course)

[batness]

Aha you mentioned Papyrus, I was going to say something.

[evlved1]

i'm a graphic designer and filmmaker... that font is like nails on a chalkboard.

[batness]

I'm a writer. Papyrus and Comic Sans are my stress triggers, lol.

[evlved1]

egh... comic sans... i think i just threw up a little.

[FASE3LARP]

yeah, i totaly agree, (graphic designer as well) but its the music what we do it for^^

seen em live by the way, amazing!

can advise everyone to go there if they play annywhere nearby :):)

[angst242]

kind of lame vid, but great song, thanks!

[punkdissorder]

there are images of Magic, The Gathering cards :D haha awesome game :D

[goth6satan]

Archangel,Darkangel lend me thy light through deaths vail till we have heavon in sight...:Plol just cajme into my hed

[MustFeedBlooD]

cradle wtf ...

[roclan]

cradle has it from vnv

[AngryDutchLizard]

Wow, that was really pretty

[shortcircuts]

someone played mtg at some point...

[Dallows65]

I was able to pick out pictures from 3 movies i recognized (5 if you cant Lotr as 3 movies but by Lotr i mean the series)

Lord of the Rings

300

and i beleive one picture from 10,000 B.C.

It takes skill to match up pictures from several movies to match this song, not only for the poetry but the depth and how much work put into the making of this song.

[dantesthreshold]

the first image is from Final Fantasy X/X-2. that was plainly obvious. another is Emmy Rossum from Phantom of the Opera. LotR is obvious. not sure which Kiera Knightley image that is. i think its from King Arthur. Apocalypto, Passion of the Christ, 300 (again obvious), Atonement, Prince of Persia, and Firestarter. i didn't see any from 10,000 b.c. though. might have confused that with Apocalypto, DALLOWS65. but definitely a good compilation for the song. the best from VNV Nation

[nic210]

I love these guys.

[nightowl8936]

A very good fan vid.

Good matching of images to the lyrics of the song.

Better than most could do.

Would have been cool to see more images of Sauron in there some place.

[animenerd98]

i looooooooooooooove this song

[daisukeasura]

vnv nation es mucho mas ke exelente!!!!!

[patyko54]

excelente

[VampireAkis]

this song gives me goosebumps

[koolkidde]

whoever made this is obsessed with aragorn

[Zerocreature]

That's because Aragorn is the man. And I don't mean that in the figurative sense, I mean- he's the human. The dude most of the audience ended up sympathizing with, because no matter how good the other characters were... well. They weren't *people*.  So yeah. Lots of people really love Aragorn...

[tbmuex]

wasn't the phantom in the movie Gerard Butler???

[tbmuex]

What was Christine from Phantom doing with Aragorn?

[Kalcite]

the guy who played aragorn played the phantom in the film version

[Rightarmprisoner]

ummm no, the phantom was gerard butler...he was in Time line and the king of spartans in 300

[Rightarmprisoner]

Aragorn was played by Viggo Mortensen

[Kalcite]

LOLZ my bad, I got confused...

[Blackmarci666]

Der Song ist so Edel . Einfach Awesome .

Gänsehautfeeling

VNV ihr seit die besten und werdet bleiben .

Greats

mfg

Blackmarci

[XjimmyXdarknessX]

this song made me jizz in my pants the first time i heard it, i'm not kidding.

[SicEvilMonkey1]

this song makes me cry for happiness.. love the video tho!!

[squidjuice666]

I even saw a total annihalation kingdoms picture in there anyways great vid great song 5 stars :)

[pignoufette01]

Video mix a lot of movies pics... i can only recognize a few : lord of rings, 300, arthur, maybe kingdom of heaven ... impressive work, congrats to the guy (or girl) who did it.

[Knoedelhans]

a VNV Song from Album "Empires"

a genius masterpiece!!

CD "Empires" : my Favorite!!

[Penguinationproject]

well done master ! I like it !

[DanceTheSpears]

Mirari!!  lol

[FutureCSICrystal]

Whenever i hear this song i think Vampire! but not the twilight vampires or anything, i'm talking about hard core Dracula kinda vampires.

[boxcatgoth]

i just see massivr fights lol might be the pics.

[andsoshewaits]

Haha, me too!

I'm writing a story based upon this and some other VNV Nation songs.

[boxcatgoth]

i could really see that been a mint story, they have soo many connotations behind them. Depends on which song though lool :P

[scarslasher]

Thank you. :D Twilight is an insult to vampire lore.

[FutureCSICrystal]

i never said twilight was bad, its just a different vampire style. i liked Twlight before it got popular, i remember reading it when no one really cared about it. i do prefer traditional vampire myths to twilight one's though.

[genocidalguitars666]

@scarslasher sir i couldnt agre more with what you said

[luke12]

@scarslasher fuck twilight.....vampires are sacred creature that are mocked consistantly

[MyLordPariah]

@scarslasher VAMPIRES AREN'T FUCKNIG SHINEY.. faggot twi-shite.

[7StarsFromTheMoOn]

@scarslasher Well said twilight isnt anything but a teen poisen

[IxionForte]

@scarslasher Vampires are gay. Period.

[sexibabe25]

Nice Music and The Video Is AWESOME!!!

[NOONE2222]

you used some Magic cards :)

Great :)

[DarkangelMHB]

mmm love this though admitively the azrael version speaks directly more to me.. still this is nice.. still gets you moving..cheers on the post.

[Nervontuxis]

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAA!

[RandomNinjaOfEvil]

shit quality

but hey great song

[bloodygirl999]

i really love this song!!!! by the way, great video!

[Latyzz]

Awesome

[Nghtmare13]

great song and great vid

[FWFWFWF]

check out Vision - Lucifer's Friend (1982) for something similar.

[ScreaminMadMurphy]

:D yay for cut'n'paste hollywood.

get some Del Toro stuff in there.

[303430]

This is some dark shit!! It calls out to our darksides......

[ftranchete]

i guess this song is one of vnv nation's best ones...

[mcleary22x]

the whole empires album rocked like this. one of my favorite industrial darkwave bands

[crazyman1914]

I am so lovin this! Helps with winter blues. Nice imagery!

[SasukeSexyNoJusu]

...Desu? What movie is that??? It looks good.

[AubinMagnus]

VNV is amazing. Cool vid to go along with it.

[loafpork]

Frodo Baggins is going to help us beat the new world order. They've got sauron but we've got the hobbits. Get out of bed and listen for the horn of gondor. We've got to march on Mordor. Turn off your televisions, understand the media is lying to you. The truth is freedom. 911 was an inside job.

[Deebriiss]

Impresionante !! hermoso video !! ya está en mis favoritos y five stars for you !! THNX

[lyrestonehart]

Very good. I enjoyed your video immensely, the way it suggested a story, yet let the imagination flow. Liberating as opposed to limiting. Bravo.

[Dabu3]

I like this song! I had never heard it until viewing this video!

[M1t0s1sReloaded]

I personally like the azrael mix more.

[ForeverIsis]

Very very good!

[VNVgirl]

i like this - very nice =) i like seeing something totally different for a change

[MissAutumnMuffin]

I adore how this song begins, really, I think that this song and Chrome are the best!

[BabyDollDark666]

Amazing sonud!!!VNV Nation is Awesome!!!Beautiful pics great job 5* :)

[belici]

"I'm In A Mood For Total War!"

Tells Everything...

[pretending21]

I only came here, seeking peace..

[Jedah5]

Whenever you play an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay 3. If you do, put a copy of that spell onto the stack. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you want you want, not what you need"

- Braids, dementia summoner

[SanatyAssassin]

AMAZING I ♥♥♥♥ IT GOOD JOB!!!!

great soooonnnggg!

[lovehatefear1]

the song is fantastic, one of my favourites by VNV Nation, the pictures go well with it. i enjoyed it.

[arcangelmichael]

Great video, but I'm not sure what story they're trying to tell. Lucifer become Aragorn and falls in love with Christine from Phantom of the Opera while they seek the Mirari from Magic: The Gathering? Oh yeah and THIS IS SPARTA!

I love the song and the images. I just don't know if the images work well together.

[feythdemacedo]

Don't think of the characters as Aragorn or Christine or other known stroies ... just think of the story the images tell as if they were all someone else in a different story. They are not meant to be the original characters, I just liked the pictures and how they melded together.

[arcangelmichael]

I didn't think about it that way. It's just that I'm familiar with the source material and they didn't seem to mesh well enough together for me. It's still a good video, though, for one that uses still images instead of video clips.

Once made a Dark Angel themed CD with a story that featured the song.

[Trublhappn]

@feythdemacedo No, I've got to agree with michael. The pictures simply distract too much from what you're trying to say. Yeah you can kinda grasp that there is some kind of story, but only after I read your comment. Each of the pictures holds too much meaning in themselves to be used for a vague idea. I applaud what you were trying to do, but at any point you attempt to mix spartans and dunedain, it's time to go back to the drawing board.

[razwu85]

fantastic song!very meaningfull!vnv is a great band,their songs actually transmit clear and important messages unlike many other so called musicians,with crapy comercial lyrics

just great guyz!

[lazarus3032]

This song describes perfect my mood now.

One of the best songs i´ve ever heard...

I like it a lot !

Greetz, Lazarus

[scopeophile]

one of my favorite VNV nation tracks.

There's one thing wrong with it however...

don't know why, but it always makes me want to take up arms (something sword like and pointy) and go to war, smite-ting all the injustice of this septic isle....

still a good track

[imgi70]

Great...

[Kilt2302]

Simply Georgeous......but i need to be in the mood for that kind of music......

[gubben37]

i simply LOVE this song!!

[TripUnderU]

How come none of the VNV videos on this site are the actual vids?

You all have too much time on your hands.LOL

[Troggawa]

"Among my own I was alone; THROUGH MY ONE DOING"

Wish it weren't true

[Athusmindless]

this guy sounds like Interpol sorta

[xXxbentedgexXx]

HA HA HA HA i going to see them next weekend the ONLY show in the states!!!!

[tangerineviolet]

lucky