S.Lo on October 29th, 2019

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Bi-coastal duo MXMS (Ariel Levitan and Shiny Toy Guns’ Jeremy Dawson) release an unapologetically gory video for their shock-rap number, “Death Row,” just in time for Halloween.

Enlisting the help of director Felicity Jayn Heath (Rihanna, Steve Aoki) at the Preative and horror film set designer Sean Forrester, the song explores the haunted mind of an addicted fashionista. Levitan shares, “The song is about a crazy young female drug addict who has no fear of death, and runs wild and free in the madness of her self-created delusional world. It’s brutal and fun at the same time.” Within this framework, Levitan stares ahead glass-eyed, squeezing blood soaked sponges while Dawson plays the part of the jerk boyfriend/husband who gets his due.

The song is in the aggressively dark vein of their single “Gravedigger” from earlier this year. “We have two very different shades of dark when it comes to our art,” explains Levitan. “One is more beat-driven, sexual and self-destructive. The other is meant to deliver a message. It’s vulnerable, with a stripped down delivery.” If MXMS get to releasing a full-length on vinyl, these two songs would fall nicely together on the macabre side.

||| Watch: The video for “Death Row”

||| Also: Watch the video for “What’s My Name”

||| Previously: Ears Wide Open