Karamazov wrote:
From rewatching both it stuck me that there’s two scenes he doesn’t mention in his analysis: the band in what looks to me like C17th dress eating Germania’s entrails, and the one of Germania carrying the singers head through a ruined city.
My mind wants to associate these with the Thirty Years War, and the second with the sack of Magdeburg in particular... not certain if that’s what’s intended though.
I was struck again by the transition to the piano coda at the end of the song: simultaneously heartbreaking and rousing. Excellent musical composition.
The whole video went over my head,
Like the guy who was decapitated.