Bank Myna’s Live Video of “No Ocean of Thoughts” and “The Shadowed Body” is Darkly Cosmic, Heavy Post-Rock Evocation of Spiritual Catharsis

Bank Myna, phot by Marine Duquesnoy

The live video for Bank Myna’s performance of “No Ocean Of Thoughts” and “The Shadowed Body” was filmed at Chapelle des Petits Augustins in Paris, France on February 4, 2026. The setting with the old art pieces along the walls and subtle lighting plaster casts and bas-reliefs line the walls with a replication of Michaelangelo’s Last Judgment, images of French Renaissance monuments and other sculptural images enhances the majestic sound of the music that is a fusion of heavy post-rock and moody post-punk reminiscent of late 80s Dead Can Dance. During the second piece the band strikes upon an urgently menacing section halfway through that juxtaposes dynamic footage of the band with the classical statuary invoking and channeling some kind of ancient energy that predates classical music and reaches something more Gothic, even tribal and the band builds the tension expertly that fans of Swans, Museum of Light, SUMAC and SOM would appreciate. When that build breaks into more ethereal moments, bass thrumming from being struck by drum mallets, the group escalates the sound into an even more intense build that is sustained through a noisy and hypnotic repetition that tumbles into a crushing processional outro and intensely cathartic release. Watch the video of Bank Myna performing live at Beaux-Arts de Paris on YouTube and follow Bank Myna at the links below.

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Bank Myna’s “Aurora (Vi Ska Sova)” is a Primeval Sound Ritual for the Awakening of the Ancient Mind

Bank Myna, photo by Marine Duquesnoy

A tremulous drone and the sound of a chime being struck ease us into the action of Bank Myna’s song “Aurora (Vi Ska Sova).” The song pulls us further in with clipped, crunchy guitar riff and female vocals that float over the ensuing flow of distorted drones and processional percussion. Before you’re fully aware of it, you are in for that journey of the song to a deeper place in the earth and in your own mind in connection with the primordial and transcendent side of your consciousness and aspect of your identity that predates the imposition of modern civilization onto your psyche. It is an introspective yet liberating sensation that seems to have no formal beginning and no formal end. Fans of SubRosa and Dead Can Dance will find much to like here. Listen to “Aurora (Vi Ska Sova) on Spotify and connect with the Parisian band Bank Myna through the links on it’s Linktree below. Also look out for the group’s forthcoming album VOLAVERUNT due Feb 25, 2022.

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