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http://www.outernational.net // Future Rock EP:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/future-rock-ep/id549869773
Directed by Miles Solay // Graphics and editing: RAW Design
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EMPTY LIVES

An approaching whistle in the distance. A train enters the station. A preacher emphatically eulogizes the countless dead. Out of the blue, a blistering wall of riffage dialed in to "11" smashes forth out of nowheresville, which seems to be the town cemetery our preacher is in. So begins Outernational's phantasmagorical new video for "Empty Lives," which is off of their Tom Morello-produced EP, "Future Rock."

The 'mainstreaming' of pornography as a key pillar in an overall degrading culture that brings everyone down...the quasi-religious belief of so many as they worship at "altar" of American democracy...the proliferation of the deadly and absurd notion that oppressed people need to become like Tony Montana while the big gangsters are playing them like little pawns...

Against-the-grain yet fully optimistic, forward-looking and "on a mission with horizon eyes," in this third installment of what has become a desert music video trilogy, Outernational solidifies its reputation as this generation's revolutionary band.

In "Empty Lives" the band's singer, Miles Solay minces no words. He opens the song, declaring: "They ask you for a career in life / they never ask you what kind of world you'd like," then lays bare the decadence and putrid nature of American society, yet and still, through the course of the song we get the sense that this is a band that isn't planning on going at it alone; that they see the possibility and potential for many people to break away from the grip of a stifling and oppressive society.

Which brings us back to our preacher who, by the end of the video seems to reach his own breaking point...breaking free and breaking through, while letting go of his previously held "faith."

Trippy and fast-paced, the "Empty Lives" music video marks Outernational's hardest hitting release to date.