URUZ by Hermetics

2024
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Official video directed by Alejandro Rodriguez
Year
2024
Location
Mendoza, Argentina
Medium
Real-time visualizer, Unreal Engine 5
Role
Direction, software development

A music visualizer set in a frozen biomechanical landscape, where skeletal beings rise across a barren shoreline under a pale, lunar light.

Directed by Alejandro Rodriguez and developed in Unreal Engine 5 with real-time 4K rendering and Cienfuegos VJ — a custom plugin for time-based visual work — the piece constructs a coherent visual world rather than simply illustrating the track.

The result is a stark, slow-moving environment where biomechanical figures emerge like a hostile form of vegetation across an open, sparse landscape — allowing scale, rhythm and atmosphere to carry the piece.

The soundtrack by Hermetics pushes toward ritual and tension, combining human voices, metallic textures and half-time drum & bass. Named after the second rune of the Nordic alphabet, the piece uses the visualizer format to tell a story rather than accompany a release. Related release: TORNA #1 ↗

URUZ — winged skeletal figure against a pale moon
Core
Alejandro Rodriguez / Dogrush
Direction
Hermetics
Soundtrack
Technical
Unreal Engine 5
Real-time production
Cienfuegos VJ
Custom Dogrush plugin