This music video is a 3D animation showing the destruction of a landscape and a civilization trying to survive.
The lyrics of the song could be related back to the title of the song and the chorus talks about how civilizations go to war - "The beating of a million drums. The fire of a million guns."
Other lyrics could also be seen as related to the title of the song. The lyrics explain how a civilization is made, what makes a civilization and how one can be destroyed. The visuals of the movie also show this as at the beginning it portrays the landscape, what made up that landscape and how the civilization in the video lived in that landscape.
The visuals then goes and splits up the landscape and the civilization meaning the destruction of the landscape. You can relate this to the chorus.
The music fits in well with the visuals as some of the cuts of the camera go with the beat of the music. There is even some diegetic sound in the video consisting of the landscape breaking apart.
Since the band does not make an appearance in the video one can say that there is no voyeurism/ notion of looking from the visuals. Although one can argue that the animals (i think they are buffalos) are the main characters and that the visuals are focused on them. So, one can say that the notion of looking is focused on the buffalos and the breaking of the landscape.
The band not appearing in the video can be used to say that the video is a concept based video although the video is one whole continuos animation which focuses on the buffalos survival. With this in mind one can state that the video is somewhat narrative. Although i cannot find any intertextual references the visuals do remind me of the 'Ice Age' movies which are animations based around animals trying to survive the beginning of an ice age and it's meltdown.
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