Love Ghost - Dead Brother
LOVE GHOST UNVEILS DARKLY POWERFUL ‘DEAD BROTHER’
SoCal’s premier alt-rock outfit Love Ghost unveiled their latest single/music video, “Dead Brother,” moments ago, via Fangoria.
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Officially released on January 24, “Dead Brother” was inspired by a dream lead vocalist Finnegan Bell experienced. Directed by horror film actor Jeff Daniel Phillips and shot by cameraman Hassan Abdul-Wahid, of Rob Zombie fame, the video collected awards at half-a-dozen film festivals.
Made up of Finnegn Bell (guitar, vocals), Ryan Stevens (bass, backing vocals), Samson Young (drums, backing vocals), Nicky Renard (lead guitar), and Cory Batchler (keyboards), Love Ghost’s sound, especially on “Dead Brother,” merges dark alt-rock flavors with potent prog-rock savors.
Love Ghost has shared the stage with Buckcherry, Berlin, Smash Mouth, The Tubes, Fuel, Mundy, and The Young Dubliners. Right now, the band is working on their new album, produced by Danny Saber of U2 and Marilyn Manson fame.
Bell’s macabre sighing tones, akin to Peter Lorre, immediately inject the lyrics with exquisitely portentous spine-chilling flavors.
“Dead Brother” opens on beefy ominous guitars, oozing fugitive sinister coloration, as the chunky rhythm from Stevens’ bassline and Young’s pummeling percussion imbue the cadence with minatory rumbling lethality. Bell’s macabre sighing tones, akin to Peter Lorre, immediately inject the lyrics with exquisitely portentous spine-chilling flavors.
“I killed my brother last night / I stabbed him twice with a knife.”
Eerie moody filaments stream from the synths, surging with high-pitched keening hues, as Renard’s heavy-duty riffs imbue the harmonics with viscous textures of dripping muscle and malevolent density. Ever since hearing Love Ghost’s wonderfully wrought, crushing “Let It All Burn,” Young’s poised, subtle drumming has impressed, because of its Jovian force and restrained dependence on crashing cymbals.
The video, directed by Jeff Daniel Phillips, radiates sepulchral visuals, relating the insidious rivalry between two brothers, both played by Bell. A party setting excites pangs of romantic envy, allowing the brooding fury of one brother to emerge and assume vast primitive power. In the end, he takes solace in a deed of brutal violence.
“Dead Brother” is wickedly powerful, shivering with black passion riding on starkly visceral layers of sound, highlighted by Love Ghost’s sonic brilliance.
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