According to Blabbermouth.net  Slipknot has released a new video for their instrumental single “Death March” which was also just released today. The video is very interesting and does a very good job of mimicking the feeling of the music, The somber ominous music that progresses into an almost scary anticipation with the changing of the music midway through. Earlier this year the band released an album titled The End, So Far, and the creativity has continued into their new video. 

The music starts low and deep with an eerie ominous feeling which is matched in its visuals which heavily feature dolls with extremely realistic faces. The video seems to be in low lighting almost giving it the sense of being in a warehouse. The doll’s face had clear close-up shots, but then right after the video would switch to the face being wrapped with plastic wrap or something else around the head and a clear shot of the plastic body lying there with a name across its chest. Some of the dolls had names written on the chest. A few of the names were Jim, Mick, Mike, Corey, Sid, and Jay. These are obvious references to some band members such as Corey Taylor, their singer, Mick Thomson, Sid Wilson, or Jay Weinberg who is on drums. Notably, one of the bodies had Clown written on it leaving the audience wondering who or what this is meant to represent. 

The video then shows a shot of all the dolls lined up in a room covered in plastic with flickering lights that fade to darkness, and the music fades with a bubbling gurgling sound. When the light reappears, the music has now switched from that low somber sound to an ominous almost choral-like background. The change in beat throughout the song builds nervous anticipation, which is added by the haunting elements of the video. Both of these aspects heighten that ever-present ominous feeling. The anticipated fear is validated by the sudden blowing up of the doll’s heads, one by one, and is where the video ends, and the music keeps that eerie dark feeling until the very end. 

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