A good old fashioned tale of revenge. And it's Steampunk. Win win.

I took apart an alarm clock once. It was still all wound up, and I didn't know how powerful the spring was when I pulled it loose; the thing lashed out, uncoiled as big as my hand and almost cut my eye. Be safe around clockwork, kids.

Sitting around at my workplace and somehow it is all flowing. Hot coffee and clockworks :)

I love that steampunk songs usually sound like the songs from "the demon barber from fleet street" its just so beautiful.

I love that steampunk music almost always tells a story, something you rarely find in the most popular music today. An unfortunate thing. Steampunk forever

the most perfect invention that still kept impecable time...thats what you call a perfectionist

after listening to this song iw sas speechless for at least 10 minutes the story of the song stuck with me for so long. just amazing

Wow, lately every new song I find is just too amazing for words...this is at the top of that list...

Thank you, finally someone who just likes music for what it has to offer and not what category it's shoved in.

This gives me a desire to build an army of automatons and use them to rule the world!!! >:D Marvelous song.

I love all the songs they make. My boyfriend and I always sing the Doctors Wife together

I've always been obsessed with clocks..... and this song made me fall insanily more!!!!!!

I love this song first one I heard by them and am now officially hooked on Steampunk music. Thanx guys gave me a whole new genre to look forward to.

WHO could hate this song? It's awesome!

I always saw this narration as given face-to-face in a victorian era train with a prominent window. I can actually visualise the camera angles for this, but lack the equipment to pull it off. The vision of this work is almost intoxicating, with a taste like an old sherry caske, but I doubt I could do this song or that vision justice. This song isn't just auditory, it's visual, olefactory and even has a taste to it that must be blended togeather into a true work of art that this diserves.

I heard just a couple of days ago that they are working on more music. I can hardly wait.

delightfully sinister song. i love CQ's stuff, i hope more songs come out soon.

@MusicianJester1295 They have other songs because they did a live show of sorts late last year, but as far as recordings go those two are all we have to listen to... Over and over... and over.

Nice revenge-story. Felt bad for the random dude it killed tho.

This is, quite honestly, one of my favourite songs of all time. Well done, absolutely well done.

I do believe that this will be added nicely to my listening playlist while I write.

Brilliant music, the song just took me back to the victorian age. 5*

If you wind a pocket watch's springs to tight and someone wound it again for time, at some point the springs wouldn't be able to take the pressure and the watch would explode very violently. The fact that the watch is such a small thing and the springs are compressed would mean that if a watch were to explode in your front pocket, being even more compressed, it would send gears and chunks of metal through to your heart. Sorry for the lengthy explanation.

This song is awesome on so many levels

You MUST MUST MUST put this on iTunes. Or something of the sort. It's absoballylutely brilliant, and I want it, and I would pay for it.

That's where I heard it first too. Love the steampunk workshop!

His voice and way of singing is really sexy.. TCQ are plain awesome!

They're great! they should really make more music

Hauntingly beautiful. I'm hooked! :D

This is amazing. No other word for it.

I got goosebumps from this song.

there songs are simply intoxicating.

I'm addicted to this song

AWESOME, that wasn't there when they first uploaded i think, either way, great to see em. Thanks!

Do they actually have more songs that this and the doctor's wife? I absolutely love them! Especially when the singer get's emotional and begins to "yell", he sounds like a madman :D

This song is like never-ending, and thats all i need :D

They have a website you can find on google, but they've only released one other song, "The Doctor's Wife."

man this song is freakin awesome so dark and great

Kind of reminds me of a really mellow Lament for Toy Factor by Doctor Steel. Fantastic :D

I think this is what Edgar Allan Poe worked on after the Beatles invited him to Sgt. Pepper. Brilliantly creepy.

this song is brilliant. wicked, kind of frightening - but brilliant. why aren't there more?

That put a smile on my face,great story :P

This makes me think of 'the wall' for some reason O.o Awesome!

It is impossible to not sing along with this. And feel like a villain while doing so.

gotta love the rythym

now, im new to these guys, as in so new i only discovered them about 10 minutes ago lol, how many songs do they have i have searched everywhere but i can only find 2? this, and the Doctors Wife....

OMGEEE! :D Exciting, now I can't wait!

I have this on repeat on my ipod. :D

Wow...so powerful and dark!

@Paris so the apprentice set up his boss by rigging a pocket watch to either explode or what I think actually wind itself tight enough that it would snap and puncture the heart of the man who bought it.

YES!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! I hate it when friends suggest ridiculous "steampunk" bands that always miss the mark. This is beyond perfect... I just wish they'd pay us a visit here in the states! :(

This song is creepy and amazing at the same time...

That would be amazing!

Yeah... I want a steampunk style musical now based around these characters and sung by these creative men. Maybe the plans and plots of each character in seperate chapters leading up to a climax that involves them all?

i can just imagine the singer telling this story in a straightjacket while smiling

that would freaking rock!

This is so magical! =D Funny how some lines serve as a metaphor (how I love those) ; P :I'll tell you that clockwork's a powerful thing, There's a terrible strength in those tightly wound springs, A gentleman's pocketwatch stays by his heart, And that's where the damage can start."

marvelous

I've pictured the watch being rigged to be a clockwork bomb. That's what I took the power in those tightly wound springs to be, the ability to make the gears themselves into a mechanized weapon. To me, it seems fitting that the mechanisms that create the watch are the are the same mechanisms that end the young man.

perfect. perfect perfect.

I love you.

@Quinnknights i think they are in the process of releasing more, I know im ready for more too.

@Emmelina93 Go to their homepage, its in the description. You can find MP3s of The Watchmaker's Apprentice and The Doctor's Wife there. Free, too.

Moral of song, never piss off someone who can make time bombs XD

@Emmelina93 You can get this one and another at their website, its in the description of the song....for free! :)

Someone needs to make a fan video for this song

Anyone know any other bands like this? Really enjoying it.

It's subtly violent.That's great

@TheLightYagami That is technically true, yes. This would probably falling under the clockpunk genre, but honestly, considering many of the people and - by extension - bands at large who considers themselves steampunk, but are just fancily-clad goth, well...

Ok People, first there was "Cyberpunk", originally introduced by William Gibson, which talked about the future and "matrix" like stuff. Then came Steampunk, which was kind of the opposite. Instead of telling the future it told of an alternate past, a past where we never advanced but were stuck in the age of steam. Dieselpunk, Arcanepunk, Clockpunk? These are all just smaller parts of Steampunk. If you read any sort of Steampunk novel or story there usually are plenty of examples of each one.

my friends and I are considering doing just that.

@Aemoth I would Love a full length CD from C.Q.!

Steampunk and Cyberpunk are brothers in sub-genres. All the others are sub-sub-genres and are really to specific to be called any sort of genre.

@markermage OMG! An amazing idea!

I saw a grandfather clock explode once, it was incredible. It threw shrapnel all over the house, pieces were stuck in the wall 15 feet away. Mechanics should never work on clocks. :P

there's a genius behind these lyrics

@luxordtimet definitely

agreed!

Genius.

@luxordtimet agreed!

my new theme song for when I play TTT

@luxordtimet Also agreed! There just aren't enough fan vids for steampunk songs. I'd totally do it if I had the talent.

@Hagane0Kitsune Never heard of Clockpunk, and think it is a pointless description. The musical genres are based on the established literary and art genres that preceded them. The music was intended to go hand in hand with the rest of the movement Steampunk is Neo-Victorian from hindsight of modern technology. Included are clockworks, Airships and an influence of musical theater (which was popular in the 1890s). DieselPunk is the 1940s and all things from that era. The era is the genre name.

i love this & the doctors wife. Is there any others by them?

I'm not sure that he created a bomb exactly, just a means of getting to the gentleman's heart. He mentions "a terrible strength in those tightly wound springs" so perhaps a concealed blade was involved too. The odd thing is though that the fob watch is often carried the lower waistcoat pocket, closer to the intestine or kidney than anything else.

I really wish I could find a place where I can download their songs D:

An alternate history were Nikola Tesla never invented Alternating Current, therefore dramatically reducing electricity's potential uses and preventing the second industrial revolution. That would mean that clockwork and steam powered machinery would become our primary technologies

@markermage Sir, if ever I have a Time Machine, I shall now play stuff like this around Poe and see what he writes.

@feh2 agreed

@MrLeomonkey07 If you were talking about the actual story then maybe it would be clockpunk, but the actual music is completely steampunk music.

@TheLadyDawner It's like the Carling adverts. Clockwork Quartet don't make music videos. But if they did, they'd probably be the best music videos in the world.

Will do, thanks :)

@Emmelina93 Just go to their website

@Aemoth Theres "Abney park", "The cog is dead" and "Doctor steel" But I only listened to one song by Doctor steel so... I really don't know about the that one...

@feh2 I definitely still support him. His ideas on creativity, fun, and a Utopian Playland inspire me, so why shouldn't I support him?

Dr Steel is as much dieselpunk as he is steampunk. We define these genres thematically, as opposed to through beats or instruments or other physical quantities, and because these are alternate pasts that have never existed what defines them ultimately is completely subjective. It's not for me, or anyone else other than the viewer to decide, so please, let's stop bickering about who's a what-now and just enjoy the good music :)

ik right?

me 2! but i dont no why either

I just wish there was more Clockwork Quartet in the world. Frankly, I just wish that there was more steampunk bands...Well, good ones, anyway.

he turned the poket watch into a bomb