Video: Holy Wars, ‘Little Godz’

Kevin Bronson on October 29th, 2020

0

Holy Wars siren Kat Leon usually reserves her four-alarm vocals for personal catharsis, transmitting her emotional conflagrations in bursts of neo-industrial pop that singes all the gossamer of subtlety.

On “Little Godz,” the new single with her partner-in-riff Nicolas Perez, Leon is venting at you, hyperactive takers of selfies. Maybe your constant mugging makes you feel like a celebrity, or a rockstar, or a deity, but all you’re really doing is creating clutter.

“‘Little Godz’ was written about our selfie-obsessed society and is a hard-hitting track a la Rage Against the Machine with female spit that will definitely get you up and punch the walls,” Leon says. “While this world goes to hell with the internet’s narcissism and growing desperation for attention, ‘Little Godz’ is the anthem.”

The song, which came out this week, arrives with a video conceived and directed by Erin Naifeh and Leon. In between Leon, Perez and drummer Greg Garman doing things rockers do, the video features a “selfie room” and a cast of friends and fellow artists wearing a contraption that encircles the subject’s head in a ring of iPhones. (Surround vision?) You know, in case you want to look good from various angles.

Speaking of looks, Holy Wars scored another one earlier this week. Their song “Welcome to My Hell,” released earlier this month, was chosen by the WWE to be the theme song of last Sunday’s pay-per-view event “Hell in a Cell.”

Since the pandemic fouled Holy Wars’ release plans for 2020, the band plans to release a new EP, “Holy Unholy,” in early 2021.

||| Watch: The video for “Little Godz”