Shadow Moses (Bring Me the Horizon song)

January 14, 2013

Shadow Moses is a song by British metalcore band Bring Me The Horizon, released on 14 January 2013 as the first single from the album Sempiternal. It was written by Oliver Sykes, Lee Malia and Jordan Fish.

The single reached number 82 of the UK Singles Chart and # 2 on the UK rock singles charts.

The title of the song refers to a fictitious place in the game Metal Gear Solid. The melody at the beginning of the song has a reference to the song The Best Is Yet to Come, which is present in the soundtrack of the computer game.

According laut.de " press the Gitarrren and the drums " in this song "on the tube". The song has only a "few synth elements " on. For in your face it is a " superb song for eternity ." Honorable mention " bombastic guitar riffs ."

The text is very general. Oliver Sykes describes the feeling alive to be dead and an eternal and yet aimless life.

Music Video

On January 22, 2013, the music video was released on Shadow Moses, which begins with the fact that the lead singer Oliver Sykes is holding a glowing torch of Bengal in the snow. The rest of the music video shows alternating short scenes of a girl that runs through the snow and the band that presents the song Shadow Moses in the snow and on the beach of an ocean that surrounds it, and while he stands by Sykes, the night holding up a Bengali torch in the snow.