The new album by Bleeding Through, Declaration, is an explosive blend of fiery black metal, inflammatory hardcore, and combustible thrash, so naturally, the first video for the record, "Death Anxiety," had to be filled with flames. To tackle the job, the band hired Dave Brodsky and he was more than up to the task. Here's singer Brandan Schieppati to tell us more:
The first line in 'Death Anxiety' says, "My body will be set aflame tonight." We knew we wanted something straightforward with this video, performance driven and without some storyline or whatever. We didn't want to be playing in a warehouse while some actors do something "spooky" somewhere else. With that being said, that first line in the song was too hard to resist. This video had to have fire! (Click more to read the rest of Schieppati's commentary and watch the video. "Death Anxiety" will debut on-air tonight at 10 p.m. on MTV2 as part of our 20th anniversary celebration of "Headbangers Ball.")
The only thing we told Dave Brodsky, the director, is that we wanted it to feature the band playing the song and we wanted lots of pyro. And that's exactly what we got!
We shot the video in Los Angeles which of course isn't that far from where we live in Orange County. Jona joined the band well over a year ago but this is the first opportunity we've had to put him in a video. Also, Ryan sings with me on the chorus and we gave him a mic in the video; it really looks like how we are when we're actually playing live. Although, we're not usually playing live in an alley.
And we're not usually on fire.
We really happy with the end result and with the reaction we've gotten to our new album, Declaration.
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