Clipping has delivered an official and powerful new video for “Blood of the Fang” directed by multidisciplinary artist Lars Jan, from There Existed an Addiction to Blood, the group’s forthcoming album.
The “Blood of the Fang” visual is inspired by a photo of Huey Newton — co-founder of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — hand-cuffed to a hospital gurney while being treated for a gunshot wound in the abdomen after a gun battle with Oakland police in October 1967.
The song itself is built around a sample from Sam Waymon’s score to the 1973 experimental vampire film Ganja & Hess. Daveed Diggs’s lyrics conjure an alternate history of black political struggle in the 1960s and 70s, name-dropping radical activists and reimagining them as a pantheon of undead superheroes fighting against systems of oppression.
There Existed an Addiction to Blood features the singles “Nothing Is Safe,” “La Mala Ordina,” and the aforementioned “Blood of the Fang,” and was produced by Clipping, mixed by Steve Kaplan, and mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysium Masters in Los Angeles. The album also features appearances from Ed Balloon, Benny the Butcher, Elcamino, La Chat, Robyn Hood, Counterfeit Madison, and Pedestrian Deposit.
What people are saying about Clipping’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood and “Nothing Is Safe”:
“Werewolves, demons, and vampires lie in wait alongside racist cops and pusher-men as clipping.’s vision of American dreams warping into nightmares builds in bone-rattling force.” [TEAATB] – Boston Globe
“Cinematic and searingly potent” [TEAATB] – London in Stereo
“a menacing, confrontational slow burn. Like the horror films that inspired it, “Nothing Is Safe masterfully builds tension and an imposing sense of dread. This is the soundtrack to our reality: unsettling, dark, sinister.” [“Nothing Is Safe”] – NPR Music
“…takes the lo-fi creepiness of an ‘80s horror film and turns it into an absolute banger.” [“Nothing Is Safe”] – Consequence of Sound
“No matter what their video suggests, these arty rap pals are more A24 than John Carpenter. “Death is coming for you/But you already knew that,” Daveed Diggs promises with suitable (if actorly) menace as a minimalist piano figure and ominous synth bass from producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes metastasizes with an eerie inherent logic. The horror.” [“Nothing Is Safe”] – City Pages
“Rather than sketching out the realities of existing on the fringes in the most literal sense, Diggs crafts a darkly fantastical reality abound with ghouls in the form of police officers and demonic opps, who are all out to do harm to his trap empire. It is particularly unsettling over William Huston and Jonathan Snipes impish production.” [“Nothing Is Safe”] – FACT
“Another promising taste of the LP” [“La Mala Ordina”] – Brooklyn Vegan
“It begins with a menacing buzzsaw synth groove before morphing into a total noise freakout in its second half.” [“La Mala Ordina”] – Stereogum
“The tracklist and first single off the forthcoming There Existed An Addiction to Blood LP promises they will continue to satisfy our need for thoughtful and artfully constructed experimental music in an age of apocalyptic chaos.” – Passion of the Weiss
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