The actual monsters we used in the video are Sinisteria, a local Richmond, Virginia haunted house/dark performance troupe I met on the street at our annual Krampus Nacht parade. I wrote the narrative music video treatment a few months ago to illustrate how warped and myopic our mental states can become when we fail to remain engaged with that reality – if all you pay attention to is catastrophe, then soon you will begin to see monsters everywhere you look. While these devices can be useful tools, and it is important to stay informed, it is equally important to remain engaged with the real, physical world we live in, not just digitally filtered representations of reality. Months before the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, I wrote Memento Mori as a reminder to myself to not be consumed by the omnipresent electronic harbingers of doom that surround us – cellphones, computers, and television screens. It is indeed a scary time, but in this hyper-connected age with its 24/7 never-ending news cycle of atrocity, outrage and lurid click-bait headlines (not to mention ill-informed lunatics running amok and spreading misinformation and panic on social media), it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that life is still carrying on, and good things do in fact still happen. This is a very real concern, and proper precautions need to be taken by EVERYONE in order to protect those most at risk – the elderly, infirm, and immunocompromised. ∼urrently, at the forefront of everyones mind is the global COVID-19 pandemic. There is a vast amount of indisputably real and depressingly negative occurrences happening across the globe, Blythe explains. “Memento Mori” kicks off the album with authority, ominous whispered vocals from Blythe giving way to a blast of energy and riffs from the band two minutes in:Īs Blythe explained in a statement accompanying the video premiere, the song stemmed from a narrative treatment he wrote a few months back - one that touches on topical concerns, as well as our unrelenting adherence to screens and the news cycle: Randall Blythe, and that is very much the case with a new song premiered on Tuesday. The band’s music and creative vision are typically led by the creative vision and lyrics of vocalist J. Lamb of God will release a new, self-titled album on May 8 - the first record from the “groove metal” masters since 2015.
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