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title: "Independent Duo ‘Reptile Youth’ Release Brand New Video For “Above”"
url: https://altwire.net/independent-duo-reptile-youth-release-brand-new-video-for-above/
author: "Derek Oswald"
published: 2014-05-09T03:20:56+00:00
updated: 2023-12-06T11:36:05+00:00
categories: ["News"]
source: "AltWire (altwire.net)"
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# Independent Duo ‘Reptile Youth’ Release Brand New Video For “Above”

*By Derek Oswald · May 8, 2014*

Up and coming Copenhagen based indie rock duo Reptile Youth have just released a brand new music video. The video for “Above” premiered on the band’s official YouTube channel yesterday. Directed by Lasse Martinussen, “Above”’s new video features a diverse supporting cast of professional MMA fighters shown alongside the lead singer Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Reptile Youth bassist Esben Valløe. Both a tense and dramatic short film, "Above" was created as a means of portraying Lasse Martinussen's feelings about the band's live performances:

> “The video is the result of my very first confrontation with the band years ago where I witnessed one of their early shows. I had heard about their crazy shows in China just before the show so they already had this strange, almost ancient, mythology around them. The lead singer was beyond performing; almost sacrificing himself to his biggest belief, while the bassist was hypnotizing through the music. It was something I had never experienced before, something tremendous, sexy, epic, violent and something I had to pursue. I tried to do with the video, what the performance did to me that night.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBh3esEFBA

*"Above" is Reptile Youth's latest single, and is taken from the band's sophomore record Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone. The album is currently available for purchase on iTunes and can be located [here](https://music.apple.com/us/album/rivers-that-run-for-sea-that/804833926). To learn more about Reptile Youth, please check out their [official site](https://www.reptileyouth.com/).*

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From AltWire: https://altwire.net/independent-duo-reptile-youth-release-brand-new-video-for-above/