Papa Roach have dropped the official music video for ‘BRAINDEAD’, and it’s not just a visual companion piece, it’s a prequel to ‘Even If It Kills Me’, the next chapter in what’s shaping up to be one of the band’s most politically fired up eras.
Directed by Jesse Davey and Ed Shiers and produced by Joanna DeLane, the clip throws you headfirst into a world on the verge of collapse. It’s frantic, jagged and appropriately unpolished, like flipping through static filled channels in a dystopian fever dream. The band is unhinged, rabid and fully dialled into the message: numbness is the disease, and they’re screaming the cure.
The video builds on the track’s core: a full frontal assault on the mental decay of modern life, with Toby Morse (H2O) showing up like a hardcore prophet mid-breakdown. We already called this track “a wake up slap,” and the video just drove that fist deeper into your chest. It’s punk filmmaking for a song built like a Molotov, fast, dirty, and meant to burn.
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While most bands are polishing hooks for radio, Papa Roach are scraping their knuckles raw. This is them throwing it back to their blood and grit DNA, but with the urgency of now. The social commentary isn’t buried in metaphor, it’s sharp, pissed off and painfully on the nose.
Now that we know ‘BRAINDEAD’ is a narrative prequel, the bigger picture starts to emerge. ‘Even If It Kills Me’ looks set to continue this descent into our screen-lit, overstimulated void and if Papa Roach are driving, we’re crashing through it headfirst.
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