Band: The Pretty Wild
Song: “living ded”
Director: Joshua Shultz
Album: ‘living ded’ – single
Release Date: July 10th, 2025
Label: Sumerian Records
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Co-vocalist Jules comments:
“‘Living ded’ is about reclaiming power through an intense and seemingly unbeatable struggle. When you’re dragged to your darkest depths, almost into existential collapse, and you find yourself suspended in this kind of weird liminal space. Some choose to stay there, but others self-realize the suffering, refuse to disappear, and choose to rise again as something new raw, almost ghostly or unkillable. You can hear that resurrection point in the lyric ‘in death we wake’.”
The other half of the duo, Jill, continus:
“‘Living ded’ is about the death of the projection society built to contain you in. It’s for the moment you realize the world insidiously shapes people thru subconscious dynamics into masks they begin to mistake for who they are.
The vampiric theme interwoven in ‘living ded’ addresses the fact paradoxically that we’re all parasites in each other’s myth. We feed off validation, guilt, and projection until the self rots into shape. And we do it to ourselves. That’s the part no one wants to take accountability for.”
The Pretty Wild hit the road next week on the Hell Hath No Fury Tour, alongside In This Moment, Wargasm, and Kat Von D. Get tickets here.
7/16 Green Bay, WI – Epic Events Center
7/19 Mansfield, OH – Inkcarceration Festival *
7/22 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
7/23 Chattanooga, TN – The Signal
7/24 Chesterfield, MO – The Factory
7/26 Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove
7/29 Springfield, MO – Gillioz Theatre
7/30 Memphis, TN – Graceland Sound Stage
8/01 Dubuque, IA – Q Casino – Back Waters Stage
8/02 Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe
8/03 Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theatre
8/05 Rochester, NY – Kodak Center Theater
8/06 Schenectady, NY – Proctors Theatre
8/08 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
8/09 Hammond, IN – The Venue at Horseshoe
8/10 Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
8/12 Richmond, VA – The National
8/14 Worcester, MA – Palladium
8/15 Hanover, MD – The Hall at Live!
8/16 Atlantic City, NJ – Tropicana Showroom at Tropicana Atlantic City
* = festival Date