Malcolm Pardon's unsettling imagery

Malcolm Pardon, one half of the experimental Swedish duo Roll The Dice, has recently released a solo project, an album entitled The Abyss, and the track Enter the Void has an accompanying video by director Oskar Wrangö. 

Pardon has commented that the album itself focusses on our relationship with death, saying, “There’s this constant dialogue we have with ourselves about how we’re going to die at some point. It’s like a constant companion, so you might as well get to know it, and befriend it.”

The video for Enter The Void is both beautiful and, at times [in one scene especially] distressing, with imagery that is both beautifully haunting and visceral. “I have always been drawn to Malcolm’s music,” Wrangö said. “It creates new images in my mind, and that’s a pretty rare thing. To me, this track is a fine balance between real darkness and simple beauty. I wanted to create a unique, visual experience in that landscape - when it comes to the end of things or the beginning of something unknown. It comes from a dark, depressive past of my own, and I think the strong contrasts are important. It’s taken me to new and interesting places. If ever a nightmare was poetic, this is my very personal interpretation of the title, Enter The Void.”