Drugs and grit and nuclear armageddon and horror and fuckall — With the Dead‘s new video for “Crown of Burning Stars” pretty much tells the whole tale. The supergroup trio of vocalist Lee Dorrian (ex-Cathedral), guitarist/bassist Mark Greening and drummer Tim Bagshaw (both ex-Ramesses/Electric Wizard), will make their self-titled debut this Friday on Dorrian‘s Rise Above Records, and already the album has entered into the conversation of the year’s best in doom, its unrelenting bleakness and lumber-led weight oozing forth from the speakers with telegraphed malevolent intent from which they provide zero avenue of escape. If riffs could kill…

The video is a collage of images intended to convey the atmosphere of the song and, by extension, the album as a whole, and it succeeds in well-edited fashion to play out a rhythmic vision of inward and outward ending. It’s got horror rituals, bombs being dropped, and even some footage of the band themselves if you’re quick enough to catch it, but the song is ultimately the star of the thing, a grueling curse spit out at the listener that somehow still seems to invite further indoctrination via its catchy hook. A low-end-heavy mix ensures depth to the pummel and, well, it’s abundantly clear that “Crown of Burning Stars” is the work of experts at the form.

Behold the doomers’ doom of the doomed:

With the Dead, “Crown of Burning Stars” official video

WITH THE DEAD will release their debut self-titled album this Friday via Rise Above Records. Today the band is pleased to debut the first video from the album for the song “Crown of Burning Stars”. Lee Dorrian came up with the video’s concept and Marc Norris at Nucleus Films directed the video.

Taken from the album – With The Dead. Released worldwide October 16th 2015.

Lee Dorrian – vocals
Tim Bagshaw – guitar / bass
Mark Greening – drums

With The Dead is released October 16th. Be prepared to face your own burial, sooner than you think. First edition CD comes in hologram slipcase.

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