NEWS: Blessed Curse Thrash up the place with “Subspecies”!

Filmed by Kenji Tsunami at Tsunami Films (Hatchet, Tegmentum), the first music video from North American Thrashers Blessed Curse has arrived in “Subspecies”. They have a new album in the works with M-Theory Audio set to distribute and so have pulled out all the stops in making this one something to remember.

Drummer Derek Bean comments: “It’s been a long time coming but we could not be prouder to have our first official music video in the books. The process was smooth and straightforward working with Kenji Tsunami — we got on stage and rocked out for 3 hours. The end result was exactly what we were going for and felt right for this project and song. While we were new to the music video process, we utilized some insights picked up here and there to be as prepared for the video shoot by simulating the playback setup in a rehearsal room in Sacramento the week prior. That definitely helped.”

“Subspecies’ is one of our more groove-oriented songs with a heavy emphasis on the backbeat providing a solid pulse to the riffs. Being a different feel than the other songs on the album thanks to the triplet-based grooves, there is almost a more solid link to older BC material which utilized a similar approach. This, along with the subterranean bloodthirsty creature story, the song serves as a great choice for our first official music video. There is a definite contrast to the first single ‘Throne of Bones’ which is bludgeoning sonically compared to ‘Subspecies.’ Intended to be this way, there is a lot of ground covered with both of these songs which represent what BC is about pretty thoroughly.”

Vocalist and guitarist Tyler Satterlee adds:  “’Subspecies’ is about the idea that when daylight falls, evil crawls out… In this case evil comes in the form of creatures that live in underground caves and as the sun descends, awaken to hunt children in local villages for the sole purpose of eating them alive before the sun rises.”

“Shooting our first official music video for ‘Subspecies’ in Oakland, CA was an eye-opening experience from the moment we loaded in our gear onto the soundstage! From camera angles, to lighting, to ‘acting’ and miming to the song, to previewing takes, everything was brand new to us but also very fun. Once editing was being finalized, seeing ourselves in an actual music video format was a dream come true after so many years waiting to do a video. We couldn’t be any happier with the end result hope all the headbangers out there enjoy it too, cheers!”