Los Angeles based EBM act Damascus Knives have enlisted the talents of Italian director Francesco Brunotti (3Teeth/Japan Suicide, Wire Spin, AAIMON, Passing, etc) for their visually dark, striking, and seductive video for “Trusted Meds” a track from their new EP Would You Feel Safer If You Carried A Gun.
The video is set inside claustrophobic industrial spaces where different masked characters are being submitted to murder, torture, or beatings. There is no place for hope, just darkness. Everything is played through a TV, that we get to see from time to time, that also connects all the different scenes and settings. In between we see a woman dancing to all the violence, and a couple getting aroused by the death and darkness.
Damascus Knives first released a single in 2017 in the midst of an EBM Techno renaissance and has had a handful of exclusive live shows and DJ appearances on the west coast. Last year the project made a remix appearance on DJ, author, and Promoter Andi Harriman’s SYNTHICIDE vinyl compilation along with Xerox Tronik Youth and Tunnel Signs, and Upsetter. With all music written and performed by David Christian, the intention of introducing this familiar blend of sounds in the current scene was not to innovate but rather slow down dance floors to bring back the late 80’s UK and Belgian grinding rave vibe.
Watch the video, directed by Francesco Brunotti below:
Damascus Knives EP Would You Feel Safer If You Carried A Gun is out now via Square Wav Productions.
Order Here
Do you think I care and want To please your stupid grotesque fantasies? You hate me wearing suits Just because…
Fear is spreading like a virus Added to the sum In the distance theres an engine It slowly starts to…
Darkwave trio Corlyx is a band that boldly colors outside the lines of traditional genre conventions, redefining the contours and…
They way they tore me apart Like I’m a corpse they wanna ditch They way they sold me for parts…
It is a quiet devastation, a weight that presses without end. The realization unfolds not in a sharp moment but…
In the history of new beat, there are few more memorable samples than "Germany calling." Taken from a Lord Haw-Haw…