Bedtime for Robot's latest album, Terror Firmament (see 8/12 post), has hatched a new video. It accompanies the track, "Spiderhugger" and invokes all the creepiness one might expect.
The video's imagery moves with precision to the track's persistent, percussive, inhuman crawl, sometimes featuring Bedtime for Robots' mastermind, Michael Ferentino (in a series of surreal, sporadic spurts) and at other times featuring a big, hairy-ass arachnid moving down a wall.
The overall effect generates imposing doom with a rebellious embracing of such. In that lies the composition and video's genius and strength, for though "Spiderhugger" implies infestation (through perhaps a parasitic bite; and far from the virtuous Peter Parker kind, that is), it also celebrates the manic aftermath wherein a man has become a monster. (Now that I consider it, "Spiderhugger" is rather an indirect salute to Horrors of Spider Island, and as a great admirer of the latter, that's quite a compliment.)
If one enjoys feverish, electronic concoctions, one would be wise to give this one a shot. Experience Ferentino's symbiotic metamorphosis at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srk9_0DW4uo
The more I think of it, the more I realize how much "Spiderhugger" would work as a swell soundtrack (or at least a swell, opening theme) for my short story, "Fear the Widow". The story will appear in *PPFSZT! #50.
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