MORTAL PROPHETS – “STOMP THE DEVIL”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Today, the Mortal Prophets, an NYC genre-fluid musical project helmed by artist John Beckmann, share their debut single entitled “Stomp the Devil,” taken off their debut EP of the same name, out July 8. It also comes alongside a haunting black-and-white music video, filmed at Untermyer Park and Gardens.
“The Mortal Prophets video [for ‘Stomp the Devil’] is a detour into the realm of a certain form of post-modern gothic. It is almost a sci-fi expansive space with shadows of the past blurring into a post-apocalyptic future,” noted filmmaker Michele Civetta.
Beckmann continued, “Music functions as a form of exorcism; ghosts seem to slip in from the past to commune with us in the present, so for me, the song and video for ‘Stomp The Devil’ represent everyone’s inner demons that we each have to struggle with in our own personal ways. Yet there is an irony in that struggle, which is also mirrored in the song.”
John Beckmann and his evolving band of genre bending roustabouts dig deep into America’s primal scream. Beckmann channels pre-war blues legends such as Lead Belly, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, via the experimental ethos of German Electronica, groups such as Neu!, Cluster, Harmonia, Brian Eno, David Bowie and Suicide.
Listen to “Stomp The Devil” and watch the music video now, and listen to the Stomp the Devil EP on June 17. The Mortal Prophets’ debut LP is out later this year.
Mortal Prophets
Stomp The Devil
(Independent)
Release Date: July 8, 2022
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