Sepultura has just unleashed a powerful new video whose content is ripped straight out of today’s headlines. The video is for the song “The Vatican” which is off of their latest album The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must be The Heart. The video was directed by Rafael Kent and was surprisingly shot in less than 24 hours in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It tells the story of a priest who desperately wants to leave the establishment because of all of the dirt going on in the church from corruption to pedophilia.
SEPULTURA – The Vatican (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
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“We all know dark moments in the Catholic religion,” director Rafael Kent states. “The lyrics speak of how the Church dominates man’s mind, how many years of domination through faith have passed, and the bloody past of the Church. We tried to have some visuals that resembled environments from the Church but were not directly in the Church. The filming also accompanies this aesthetic; we looked for darker and more obscure scenes giving the impression that the kind of thing that happens in the clip and story are things that happen on the sly.”
“It shows various obscure facets of the church, from corruption to pedophilia, a dark side that many people like to ignore,” states Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser. “The actors were very well selected, all with strong and striking expressions. The video tells the story of a priest who wants to leave the church because of all this dirt, and suffers pressure from the inside not to leave. It’s rather heavy and tense.”
