ESA – “GOLDEN HOUSE” (FEAT. MASSENHYSTERIE & KONSTANTINA BUHALIS)
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
British artist J. Blacker, mastermind of ESA, has released his new effort Sounds for Your Happiness on July 5th via Negative Gain Productions. Today The Spill Magazine is proud to premiere the brand-new video for one of the songs from the new album, “Golden House” feat. Massenhysterie & Konstantina Buhalis. The video will be officially launched on Friday, the 18th of July.
The new single and music video for “Golden House” is an erotically charged, Roman tragedy inspired slab of pumping dancefloor power. Featuring Jo Hysteria from Massenhysterie on vocals, the video for “Golden House” is a cynical POV on the infamous Roman rulers; Nero & Caligula (played by Jo Hysteria and Jamie Blacker respectively). As we witness their hedonistic and power hungry daily affairs (which include a servants wrestling match and body builders performance) before accompanying Nero and Caligula as they travel into modern times and seek to satisfy their hunger for pleasure.
Inspired heavily by the pomp of the 1979 film Caligula, the video features competition winning body builders Jeannie Ellam and Vikki Varley alongside Jenova Rain and Stephan Sutor as the video Finale’s Insurgents, looking to swipe the ‘throne’ from the naive and arrogant Nero & Caligula.
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The context that inspired this piece is the realisation that even after 1548 years since the demise of the infamous Roman Empire, the elected powers in place will still conduct itself in the same way..and that abuse of power pays no real attention to time periods.
The single for this club edit of the track and music video is available from today (July 18). Whilst the original version of this track (which includes a historic re-telling of these two Emperors by Konstantia Buhalis) is featured on ESA’s album Sounds for Your Happiness, realeased on July 5th.
Sounds for Your Happiness is yet another milestone in the creative universe of ESA. Striking and thought provoking visuals, enormous electronics and powerful messages is always expected from an ESA release..”Sounds for Your Happiness” does not disappoint with any of these ingredients.
With this album, J Blacker paints ESA as a sinister technology company, with the musical structures from the album, utilised to create an emotional response from its listeners, which is transferred as energy to run the simulation we all live in. Its a nod to shows and films such as Severance and Soylent Green.
Musically, Sounds for Your Happiness is a bleak and furious slab of electronic meat. A journey of EBM / Industrial / Black Metal / Dark Ambient / Powernoise / Punk / Techno and Goa, the album is as ambitious as it is exhilarating and genres merge seamlessly into an energetic free-fall of sonic chaos.
Get plugged in and let the happiness wash over you.
ESA
Sounds For Your Happiness
(Negative Gain Productions)
Release Date: July 5, 2025
Stream The “Golden House” Video HERE
Order Sounds for Your Happiness on Bandcamp HERE
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