From the new album "IV". Available from www.beastwars.bandcamp.com and all good record stores.
Made with funding from New Zealand on Air.
"When I first heard the song and the title it reminded me of one of the stories in the epic of Gilgamesh where the shepherd in the story gets turned into a wolf, his own worst enemy.
Then that also reminded me of a different time when I was interviewing Matthew (Beastwars vocalist) for a documentary about the new album and he had told me that while he was doing chemotherapy he had to poison himself to get better. So you have to turn into your own enemy in order to live. That's what lead me down this path. And because of that, looking more into the original story of Gilgamesh, he's on a mission to find out how to live forever. And then he finds out that of course we're all meant to die.
We're not telling the whole story of Gilgamesh, we're telling the part where he starts off on his journey. He meets the goddess of love and war and she is interested in him because he is a powerful king but he rejects her. So to teach him a lesson she sends him the bull of heaven but Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu kills the bull so she curses Enkidu because she's mad. So that really sets off Gilgamesh on this journey because he doesn't understand why that happened and wants to know if there is a way for hm to live forever. So he goes through a dark time and meets the Ferryman only to discover that death is a gift." Amber Beaton
Directed by Amber Beaton
Producer - Lisa Wolf
Colourist - Damian McDonnell
Make Up - Michele Perry
Director's Assistant - Dom Lloyd
Starring:
Huda Tadesse
James Bennett
Victor Fraga
Matt Hyde
Stephen O'Neill
Juan Cardenas
Lisa Wolf
Beowulf and Wulfgar as the wolves
and Struan as the Bull Of Heaven
Special thanks to:
New Zealand on Air
Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary
Friday Perry
Nina Hyde
Ryan Brawley
Steve Francis
Ross Mallon
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