The video was directed by critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated director PR Brown (Korn, Slipknot, Motley Crue, Audioslave, Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Alicia Keys), who also lensed the video for the previous single “ Chris Watts.”īrown also weighs in on the visual, saying, “Monsters live among us. Meiwes didn’t seem like the typical beast you’d imagine when you think of a ‘cannibal.’ But then again, you might ask yourself, ‘What does a cannibal even look like?’ It’s a story that hasn’t left me for years and I feel like I have finally translated it into music.” She continues, “When I investigated the case, I watched an interview with him.
His urge to own someone and to fully merge with somebody trumped his common sense.” He wanted to reach another level of climax, because fantasies that he had held since he was a little boy weren’t enough for him anymore. Meiwes didn’t have his inner animal tamed. It sounds insane on the surface, but it’s also really sad story about being lonely and engaging in an internal fight of fantasy versus reality. “The arrangement was an entirely consensual cannibalistic murder. “This is just a really bizarre story,” Skynd shares. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the pair delve into one of the most disturbing but fascinating true crimes of our time with this track and video. Their muse is the world of inexplicable and brutal criminal cases and the mystery surrounding unsolved killings. Their storytelling in song form reminds us of the darkness within the human psyche, while taking extreme care not to exalt the cases they create their art from. SKYND is the dark creative outlet and the alter ego of its lead singer, Skynd, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Father.
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