Showing posts with label Terror Firmament Bedtime for Robots video: Spiderhugger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terror Firmament Bedtime for Robots video: Spiderhugger. Show all posts

Monday, August 15, 2022

BEDTIME FOR ROBOTS: SPIDERHUGGER VIDEO (TERROR FIRMAMENT)

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