Watch the video for the title-track to Motionless In White's new album, Disguise.
Industrial gothic metallers Motionless In White have released a typically creepy video for the title-track to their new album, Disguise.
Of the video, frontman Chris Motionless recently told Kerrang!: “A lot of the time I think we maybe go a little overboard with the imagery and it ends up being a little distracting from the main message. This one is based more on performance, but we’ve brought to life – for want of a better term – a ‘creature’ from one of our old album covers, and have had some fun with that.”
Meanwhile, of the song itself, he explains: “It’s about the common thread that circulates through the rest of the record lyrically. That’s a lot more personal. In the past year – well, longer than just the past year, but more specifically in that timeframe – I’ve noticed an interesting change in myself mentally. It’s a culmination of a lot of different aspects of my life that have been happening outside of the band that I don’t really share with a lot of people. I use lyrics as a way to express those things that I don’t share publicly, and the song is about how I feel like I’m constantly having to put on this mask, put on this disguise when I show myself. I don’t feel like it’s accepted to talk about the things I want to talk about emotionally or mentally to a certain degree, and that’s been a struggle for me, and what I’ve been dealing with. It sucks to feel like I’m losing myself in this alternate person I feel like I have to be, and that definitely hit me very hard last summer when I recognised that I had to figure myself out because something is absolutely wrong, something that is going to stop me from wanting to even be in a band if I don’t care for myself emotionally or mentally. Probably eight of the songs are centred around those feelings, and starting the record off with the title-track gives you an idea of what it’s going to be.”
Check it out below, and pre-order the album Disguise (due out on June 7 via Roadrunner Records) here.
Motionless In White are currently touring North America with Atreyu, and will head out with Alice Cooper this summer.
Motionless In White North America 2019 tour
April
30 Wichita, KS – The Cotillion
May
2 Springfield, MO – The Complex*
3 Peoria, IL – Monarch Music Hall*
5 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
6 London, ON – London Music Hall
8 Lynchburg, VA – Phase 2
9 Knoxville, TN – The Mill & The Mine
17 Allentown, PA – PPL Center
19 Pittsburgh, PA – KeyBank Pavilion
20 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
21 Chicago, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
23 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
25 St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
26 Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
28 Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre
29 Cedar Park, TX – H-E-B Center
31 Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
August
1 Houston, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
4 Nashville, TN – The Opry House
7 Canandaigua, NY – Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center: CMAC
8 Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
10 Portland, ME – Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row
11 Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
13 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
15 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
16 Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion
September
27 Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
