Video: Chelsea Wolfe, ‘Carrion Flowers’

Kevin Bronson on July 1st, 2015

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If you thought it got dark on Chelsea Wolfe’s 2013 album “Pain Is Beauty,” wait until you listen while she peeks into the “Abyss.” That’s the title of the goth-metal sorceress’s new album, due Aug. 7 via Sargent House, and it’s a riveting, if unsettling, collection of soundscapes that see-saw from fragile beauty to brawny menace. In the album announcement, Wolfe revealed that she suffers from sleep paralysis, explaining that this fifth album fully explores “the boundaries between dreams and reality.” Equally intense is the black-and-white video for the single “Carrion Flowers,” directed by Wolfe and her collaborator Ben Chisholm. Its apocalyptic visuals “allude to the drought in California and frustration about corporations being allowed to pump out all the water, destroying environments and communities, just to sell it back,” she says. “While writing ‘Abyss,’ I lived near where the water is piped into Los Angeles, but the lakes were dried up and the mountains were burned from fires.” The song also appears in the movie trailer for the forthcoming “Dark Places.”

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