Ukrainian symphonic progressive metal band Ignea have released a new music video for their single “Dreams Of Lands Unseen,” the lead track from their upcoming album Monumental.
The album is scheduled for release on October 23 via Napalm Records, continuing the band’s next creative chapter following their 2023 concept record. The new single stands apart thematically, even as it shares stylistic echoes in its naming conventions.
The visual presentation of the track draws heavily from Soviet-era space aesthetics, something vocalist Helle Bohdanova explained in detail:
“This song is about the blend of ambition and illusion, where space wasn’t an escape but a conquest shaped by ideology and dreams. Across Ukraine and many post-Soviet countries, mosaics still depict this promised future: cosmonauts, rockets, bold visions of worlds yet unseen. We shot the video in black and white on purpose, reaching for the vibe of old sci-fi rather than modern blockbuster spectacle, using Cooke Varotal lenses, the optics favored by Kubrick. In the end, I think the song isn’t nostalgic for space exploration itself, so much as for an aesthetic that was itself already nostalgic, looking back at a future that was already passing. Still, I guess each of us has dreamt of becoming an astronaut at least once… haven’t you?”
Bohdanova also detailed the use of authentic Soviet-era cosmonaut costumes featured in the video, noting their historical origins and explaining how they were originally sourced from the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studios in Kyiv. She further revealed that the studio suffered damage in a recent strike, along with the band’s own headquarters in Kyiv.
She added further context regarding the costumes and their historical provenance:
“In the video, actors portraying cosmonauts wear real Soviet space helmets and the bottom layers of Soviet space suits that were also used for stratosphere flights. This is because in a totalitarian regime, sourcing real items for film productions from adjacent ministries was often easier than building fake props—since films were ‘ordered’ by the leadership, and everyone was expected to contribute to their production.”
The band emphasized the symbolic weight of the imagery, tying together themes of ideology, memory, and lost cultural archives within the visual concept of the video.
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