LORD OF THE LOST – Leaving The Planet Earth (Official Video)

Introduction

With Leaving The Planet Earth, LORD OF THE LOST deliver a focused surge of industrial-laced dark rock that feels both immediate and expansive. Released via Napalm Records, the official video frames the song’s brooding synth architecture and surging guitars with taut, performance-driven aesthetics. It is a key statement from the Blood & Glitter era, capturing the group’s knack for high-impact hooks, precision production and a cinematic sense of scale.

Sound and Performance

The track is written by Chris Harms and Jaani Peuhu, a pairing that leans into a potent blend of mechanized rhythm and melodic uplift. The arrangement pivots on a muscular low end and steady, piston-like drums, underpinned by layers of analog-leaning synths and atmospheric pads. Guitars cut between chugging mid-gain riffs and widescreen chords, creating a dense but breathable wall of sound. Subtle electronic details and percussive programming thread through the mix, adding tension without crowding the vocal line.

Harms’ voice anchors the song with controlled intensity. Verses carry a cool, measured tone over minimalist electronics, while the chorus opens into a fuller register, built for collective release. The production finds a balance between grit and clarity, letting distorted textures and polished harmonies coexist. It is a study in contrasts that the band handle with practiced confidence.

Lyrical Focus and Themes

The title Leaving The Planet Earth suggests a reckoning with distance and departure, whether literal, emotional or existential. The song reads as a meditation on disillusionment and reinvention, imagining escape not as defeat but as a recalibration of perspective. The push and pull between isolation and connection shapes the track’s mood, with the chorus offering a resolute answer to the verses’ quiet doubts. Without resorting to grandiose imagery, the writing frames transcendence as an act of will, grounded in tangible sound and structure.

Video Direction and Aesthetics

Directed and edited by Matteo vDiva Fabbiani and Chiara Cerami for vdpictures.ch, the official video emphasizes performance, texture and light. Filmed at Woodland Studios in Wedel, Germany, it leverages a controlled studio setting to highlight the band’s precision. Stephen Thompson’s lighting design sculpts sharp contrasts and silhouettes, allowing each section of the song to feel visually distinct without interrupting momentum. Camera work by Matteo Fabbiani, with a supporting second camera from Jan Season, keeps the framing tight and kinetic. Special FX by Ralf Cordes provide a restrained sense of otherness that complements the track’s title and tone. The result is a clean, high-impact document of the band’s aesthetic, eschewing narrative excess in favor of atmospherics and clarity.

Production and Recording

Leaving The Planet Earth carries the imprint of a cross-studio process that prizes detail. Produced by Chris Harms and Corvin Bahn, with co-production by Jaani Peuhu, the track was recorded and engineered by Bengt Jaeschke, Benjamin Lawrenz, Aleksi Villberg and the band across a network of rooms: Sonic Pump Studios (Helsinki), Chameleon Studios (Hamburg), Sto’Vo’Kor Studios (Hamburg) and Recording Sylt (Westerland). Mixed and mastered by Benjamin Lawrenz and Chris Harms at Chameleon Studios in Hamburg, the final sound favors punch and spatial cohesion, with careful separation between synths, guitars and vocals. The low end is taut and present, drums sit forward without masking the electronics, and the vocal remains central even as the arrangement swells.

Place Within Blood & Glitter

Appearing on the 2022 album Blood & Glitter, Leaving The Planet Earth reflects the record’s juxtaposition of darkness and shine. It stands as one of the era’s most immediate entries, pulling together the band’s industrial leanings, modern metal heft and a sense of melodic catharsis that reads clearly on first listen. The track’s studio pedigree and visual treatment underline the album’s ethos: bold surfaces, big choruses and a rigorous attention to sonic craft.

Key Credits

Music and Lyrics: Chris Harms / Jaani Peuhu
Publishing: Chris Harms published by Schubert Music Publishing
Producers: Chris Harms & Corvin Bahn
Co-Producer: Jaani Peuhu
Recording and Engineering: Bengt Jaeschke, Benjamin Lawrenz, Aleksi Villberg & LORD OF THE LOST
Editing: Benjamin Mundigler & Gared Dirge
Recorded at: Sonic Pump Studios (Helsinki), Chameleon Studios (Hamburg), Sto’Vo’Kor Studios (Hamburg), Recording Sylt (Westerland)
Mixing and Mastering: Benjamin Lawrenz & Chris Harms at Chameleon Studios (Hamburg)
Video Direction and Editing: Matteo vDiva Fabbiani & Chiara Cerami for vdpictures.ch
Camera: Matteo Fabbiani
Second Camera: Jan Season
Lights: Stephen Thompson
Special FX: Ralf Cordes
Filming Location: Woodland Studios, Wedel, Germany
Filming Date: May 2022
Label: Napalm Records
(C) 2022 Napalm Records & LORD OF THE LOST

Final Notes

Leaving The Planet Earth distills LORD OF THE LOST’s strengths into a precise, hard-hitting package. It sounds meticulously built but never clinical, and the visual counterpart respects that economy by spotlighting performance, light and texture. As part of Blood & Glitter, it affirms the band’s command of contemporary dark rock, pitched between industrial pulse and melodic release.