Project Pitchfork - View from a throne

What this video is

Released in 2002 as part of Project Pitchfork's ambitious NUN trilogy—a triptych of releases (Inferno LP, View From a Throne EP, Trialog EP) exploring themes of spirituality, eternity, and apocalyptic vision—this video sits at the apex of the German dark electro scene's commercial and artistic peak. The band, formed in Hamburg in 1990 by Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber, had by this point established themselves as…

Why it matters

This video is a key artifact of early-2000s European dark electro/industrial darkwave visual language. The rapid-edit performance-concept hybrid format, theatrical lighting, and gothic-inflected aesthetic were hallmarks of the genre's peak MTV/VIVA rotation era in Germany, and the video documents…

The director

Oliver Sommer (b. 1963, Nürnberg, Germany) is a German music video director and producer with a career spanning from the early 2000s through the late 2010s. His credits include videos for Sarah Connor (2001), Helene Fischer (2013), Kate Ryan (2008), and…