Band: Chelsea Wolfe
Song: “Deranged For Rock & Roll”
Director: Gilbert Trejo
Album: Birth of Violence
Release Date: September 13th, 2019
Label: Sargent House
Wolfe spoke of the song and video, stating:
“‘Deranged for Rock & Roll’ is my love song to music. Every time I ever tried to walk a different path, music always called me back home to it. It’s in my blood; it’s my one source of true peace. I love its chaos and its rough edges, and I love the way it can bring understanding and comfort. I belong to music, and it to me. I feel Gilbert’s video illustrates that unnamed pull towards something so well. My character is destined to sing the same song over and over in this purgatory of a desert bar, while different people come through the town and begin to feel the pull as well, drawing them into this vortex to stay for good.”
Director Gilbert Trejo (Pixies, DIIV) said:
“From the beginning we knew this video took place outside of society. The melody invokes compulsion, a certain type of purgatory, the inability to just buckle down and fly the straight path. Everyone’s purgatory exists side by side, and we affect one another without ever knowing.”
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