Closet Witch
Photo Cred 📸 : @_scumlxrd
This week we’re incredibly excited to premiere not just a new single but the brand new music video for Closet Witch’s “Haunting and Releasing” directed and created by Iowan local legend, Jeff Carl. The forthcoming album due out on Zegema Beach Records, is already shaping up to be one of the heaviest of the year.
Those in the know have been eyeballing Iowa’s Closet Witch for quite some time, but it's largely been in recent years that their buzz has reached the levels of what the band deserves. "Haunting and Releasing" gives the aural texture of a possession, the static spectral layer of fuzz lays thinly on top of violent shrieks (featuring long time friend Frankie Furillo of The Central), mountain sundering guitars and bass with terrifying drums that refuse to relent. The music video echoes this, as jarring shapes and cuts chaotically accompany the brutal sonics, gnashing and stuttering with color, frequency and hum. Interspersed with landscapes, random and sometimes unsettling imagery, the visuals captured compliment the disorienting feeling of both the track and the title, before its sudden and viciously abrupt end.
Closet Witch vocalist Mollie had a few words to say about their new track..
“It was really cool to have two long time friends collaborate for those tracks...Frankie did vocals on the second and he's just been one of my favorite people for some time now. And then to have Jeff make a video was super cool, too, as I've known him for most of my time living in Iowa and he's just a creative individual who marches to the beat of his own drum. Both an honor to have involved. Lyrically the songs are along my usual lines, borderline story telling mixed with journalistic emotional release ...Topics relating to personal traumas that I'm sure many can in some way relate to, unfortunately, and that a lot of us find shame inducing to lament on or even bring up but cause indefinite ache in how hard they are to overcome on our own.”
Closet Witch are a band we've been eyeballing for some time and 2021's B-side EP Mellifocation only had us more excited for what was to come. However with "Haunting and Releasing" I'm beginning to feel that I am just not prepared for the assuredly full on envelopment of what's sure to be a deliciously hellish and achingly emotional full length.
"Chiaroscuro" is out November 3rd on all platforms but you can preorder one of two gorgeous vinyl variants now, released via our friends at Zegema Beach Records as well as other incredibly sick variants available through Moment of Collapse Records, Circus of The Macabre Records and Sassbologna Records for European distribution. Give the video a watch and preorder the vinyl today.
Checkout their most recent previously released new single here : Closet Witch
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
10/23/23
