Symphonic/progressive metal collective Ignea have unleashed the first single and video from their forthcoming body of work, Monumental. The track, "Dreams Of Lands Unseen", shares its title with the quartet's 2023 full‑length, yet marks a clear step into new conceptual territory. The single explores the Cold War space race — a time when war‑scarred humanity projected its greatest hopes into the cosmos far beyond the known world. Bursting with energy from the outset, "Dreams Of Lands Unseen" fuses a punchy, driving riff with fierce growls.

To deepen the nostalgic atmosphere, shimmering keyboard lines and theremin solos evoke a distinctly 1980s sci‑fi aesthetic. This sonic palette aligns with the monumental scope of the upcoming album: Monumental, out 23 October on Napalm Records, examines and reflects on nostalgia in all its forms.

Vocalist Helle Bohdanova comments: "This song is about the blend of ambition and illusion, where space wasn't an escape but a conquest shaped by ideology and dreams. Across Ukraine and many post-Soviet countries, mosaics still depict this promised future: cosmonauts, rockets, bold visions of worlds yet unseen. We shot the video in black and white on purpose, reaching for the vibe of old sci-fi rather than modern blockbuster spectacle, using Cooke Varotal lenses, the optics favoured by Kubrick. In the end, I think the song isn't nostalgic for space exploration itself, so much as for an aesthetic that was itself already nostalgic, looking back at a future that was already passing. Still, I guess each of us has dreamt of becoming an astronaut at least once... haven't you?"

She adds regarding the video production: "In the video, actors portraying cosmonauts wear real Soviet space helmets and the bottom layers of Soviet space suits that were also used for stratosphere flights. This is because in a totalitarian regime, sourcing real items for film productions from adjacent ministries was often easier than building fake props—since films were 'ordered' by the leadership, and everyone was expected to contribute to their production. After appearing in a Soviet-era space film, the items remained stored at the film studio for decades afterward. The cosmonaut costumes featured in the video were specifically rented from the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studios in Kyiv, home to Ukraine's largest historic costume collection. On the night of June 14–15, 2026, the studio was hit in a Russian strike on Kyiv, destroying the costume workshop along with roughly 100,000 historical pieces from the archive. The same strike also damaged Ignea's own headquarters".

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