Last week saw Anthrax unleash their new studio album ‘For All Kings‘ via Nuclear Blast.
This week they’ve dropped an epic music video for the single ‘Blood Eagle Wings‘.
Directed by Jack Bennett, the clip features a skull-faced king presiding over a draconian society built on torture, torment and murder. A protagonist, played by James Duval (known for his roles in Donnie Darko and Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy), initially resists the carnage but eventually succumbs to his own graphic fate, inspired by the song’s title. The video concludes with the king surveying a modern cityscape — a clue as to the song’s meaning — and a final surprise featuring two unexpected faces.
Check it out below.
Bennett says of the video’s setting;
“We created this torture chamber, sitting below this horrible king’s hall. This guy gets to play with his toys and look through the grate in the floor and see this group of people that he’s essentially crushing. The idea is that this power is built on top of these people. It’s brutal and there’s a lot of amazing torture gags happening, but it all serves this concept that progress is brutal. Civilizations progress in a way that is violent.“
The band recorded some 20 original songs, almost twice as many as they had ever brought into the studio in the past. Now the results of those sessions were nutted down to 13 tracks that make up the new album which you can stream below.
You can order the album now locally on CD and Vinyl [Here]. Or get it digitally on iTunes [Here].
1. Impaled
2. You Gotta Believe
3. Monster At The End
4. For All Kings
5. Breathing Lightning
6. Breathing Out
7. Suzerain
8. Evil Twin
9. Blood Eagle Wings
10. Defend Avenge
11. All Of Them Thieves
12. This Battle Chose Us
13. Zero Tolerance
