COMBICHRIST – Understand (2019)

Vocalist Andy LaPlegua tackles themes of fear and anxiety with a heavy track accompanied by terrifyingly creepy visuals. “Today is not the right day to fall apart,” says Combichrist vocalist Andy LaPlegua to himself at the opening of his band’s new video for Understand. Though, admittedly, viewers of the electro-industrial metal act ‘s new video might have trouble keeping it together watching this twisted, disturbing work of art.

Two months after debuting their lyric video for One Fire‘s first single, “Hate Like Me”, Combichrist have released the first true music video from their upcoming album, One Fire, and it certainly does not disappoint. The creepy, dystopian short film depicts a space traveler waking after a long fall, only to find herself trapped in what can only be described as a Lynchian nightmare filled with old men who eat pills from dead foxes’ mouths, twins conjoined at the face, and neck-chained slaves with octopus tentacles for heads… [+]

Seconds to reflect, the choices that we made A serpents tonngue as sharp as a knife Trying to dissect, find an answer, a god There’s no tomorrow, where lies are king Today is not the right day to fall apart It won’t discriminate It will swallow you whole Today is not the right day to fall apart Pick up the pieces out of the dark It won’t discriminate It will awallow you whol No one is safe, contaminated Brain corrupted All common sense On a single line, with our backs to the wall No heart, no compassion at all, as we fall When there’s no hope left in here eyes Only wanted to understand but there is no reason why It makes it hard to pretend And now we wait for wounds to heal Only wanted to understand but there is no reason why