IGNEA

New album "Monumental" is out October 23, 2026 via Napalm Records ⚫️ Pre-order your copy today: http://lnk.to/Ignea-Monumental

Video: Lame Perfect
Mixing & Mastering: Jacob Hansen

CREDITS

Director, Editor, Color - Lame Perfect
DOP - Nazar Khoptynets
1АС/Focus - Oleskandr Leonard
Gaffer - Serhii Prinko
Key Grip - Yevhenii Kliuchnikov
MUA - Alona Bushynska
Style - Helle Bohdanova

The project is a winner of the Per Forma grant program developed by Kyiv Contemporary Music
Days with the support of the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture
and Science of the Netherlands, aimed at developing the performing arts sector in Ukraine.
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ABOUT "DARKNESS"

“Darkness” explores finding comfort in memories even if they reveal cracks. Native to Kyiv, IGNEA have their own fair share of those, so the new song inevitably takes a bittersweet turn. Shifting between eerie, melancholic verses and grandiose, uplifting choruses before crescendoing into a live choir set against raw blast beats, the new song mirrors the emotional swing of nostalgia itself, the drift into shadow followed by sudden bursts of longing.

“Darkness” is paired with a music video shot in Ukraine’s capital city. The walk through Kyiv captures an additional theme of the album – the walk past modernist buildings representing a future that never arrived. Part of the video was filmed at the Kyiv University of Building and Architecture — symbolically vital for an album about urban nostalgia, as its halls carry the energy of generations of students who trained there to build the very structures the video mourns.

With the very same buildings that once only held innocent memories of the band’s upbringing now being destroyed by the war, the imagery adds a second, bitter layer to the nostalgia. It’s not just longing for the past, but grief for what is disappearing in real time. In a cruel coincidence, IGNEA shot the video for “Darkness” in the literal darkness of the largest missile and drone attacks on Kyiv that hit the night before shooting.

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LYRICS

Darkness,
Sing to me to fill the void
Echoing the bitter present.
It’s the only thing I still enjoy —
Eerie comfort of my memories.

Our eyes will sync in tear drops
Washing off the hopes of past,
We were fools for dreaming futures,
It’s not that bright among the stars.

Let us race beyond the time and place
Where the void shall never find us.
Hand in hand on a dazing dreamscape,
Chasing ghosts of our lives.

Darkness,
Things were better in my past,
Walls were made of greyish matter.
They were made to make tomorrows last,
Meet the withering mornings.

Now, with rounded windows broken,
Once converting solar light,
Buildings serve another purpose,
My nostalgic rides…

Let’s just race beyond the time and place
Where the now would never find us.
Hand in hand on a dazing dreamscape,
Chasing ghosts of our lives.

Darkness,
Touch the former glory,
Monumental in its core,
Good old days are trapped in concrete
There was so much more…

У порожнечу часу, темряво, співай
Щемко серцю
Світлий сум минуле ллє, а ти лунай
Безмежно

Darkness, how does it feel knowing
That you can never get back
Even you, unsettling comrade,
Have dissolved into the void...

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ABOUT “MONUMENTAL”

Back in the 17th century, nostalgia was considered a deadly disease — and in many ways, it still is. There is hardly a soul on earth who hasn't felt it — it's woven into the fabric of being human. And yet, as natural as it feels, this emotion is far more layered and complex than it first appears.

Nostalgia can bring back the most beautiful memories, only to darken them with the awareness that those moments will never come again. On “Monumental”, we'll take you on nostalgic rides, with all their ups and downs, expressed through music and lyrics that carry a bittersweet sense of gentle sadness and longing.

Learn more and pre-order: http://lnk.to/Ignea-Monumental

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LINKS TO IGNEA

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