Melodic Metal duo Friendship Commanders have released a new video for the track Dead and Discarded Girls, a track taken from their latest album Bear, and directed by the band’s Jerry Roe.
You can watch the video for Dead and Discarded Girls here:
“The haunting track was inspired in part by the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk and in part by vocalist Buick Audra’s reflections on empathy, specifically, the human tendency to withhold it unless we personally relate to someone’s suffering. The album’s dedication, “For all of the bad daughters,” originates from this song. The band is intentionally releasing the video on November 14, the anniversary of Virk’s death.”
On the single, Buick Audra shares:
“I learned of Reena’s story through the work of Rebecca Godfrey, who wrote a book about this horrific event, and I was struck by this tale of exclusion, violence, and ultimately death that befell a kid who just wanted to fit in. I know it well, and I also know how little empathy women and girls are sometimes able to extend to their own kind. I’ve felt it all my life. In this track, I’m trying to say, look at what we do to each other. I recorded the vocals for ‘DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS’ last year on November 14, in tribute to her. The track spans the broadest dynamics on the whole record, going from an intimate opening to a crushing middle section, audibly reflecting the track’s message: care about someone else; care about her. Reena was drowned, so the song and video are both centered around water.”
While Jerry Roe adds:
“I tend to see visuals and work off my gut instinct to begin with when it’s time to make a video for a song, but I leaned harder on that than anything else this time. Rather than get overly specific or directly reference what this song was about, I wanted to involve water and the type of foliage that lives around bodies of water. Contrasted against the dark black and blue predominantly slow-motion performance footage that’s made to look as if we’re underwater ourselves, my goal was to sort of present souls that have been lost to the water as living on underneath and in the earth forever. Not trapped, but there to remind us always of what should be and wasn’t.”
PRESS SOURCE: Dominik Goncalves dos Reis/All Noir.
