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AFTERMATH Release Music Video For Cover Of JOHN LENNON’s ‘Give Peace A Chance’
March 13th, 2020

Chicago, Illinois-based technical progressive thrash metal band Aftermath have released a music video for their re-imagined version of the John Lennon anti-war song ‘Give Peace A Chance’. Directed by Steven Nathan, the clip can be viewed below.

The original version of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ was recorded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released under the Plastic Ono Band moniker in July 1969.

Frontman Kyriakos “Charlie” Tsiolis commented: “John Lennon’s urgent call for peace in ‘Give Peace A Chance’ is more important today than ever, and our call for peace with this cover is the perfect message to follow up our previous album. We released a dark concept album with a bleak message and felt it was important to follow that up with something positive.

“The visuals in the video are as important as the lyrics in a way. We live in a visual world today and this video needed to get out the message of HOPE. Having a young girl be the focus of the video was our way of getting that across. Seeing only positive acts when she puts on Lennon’s famous glasses was the perfect visual metaphor. Lennon’s message is transmitted not only through his lyrics but also through the perspective created by his unique lenses”

Aftermath’s rendition of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ was released as a digital single on February 28th, 2020 and can be purchased here.

Aftermath’s line-up is as follows:

Kyriakos “Charlie” Tsiolis (lead vocals)
Steve Sacco (guitar and backing vocals)
George Nektarios Lagis (bass and backing vocals)
Ray Schmidt (drums)

Second studio record There Is Something Wrong was released on February 2019.