If you’ve got a hankerin’ for a spankerin’, you’re in luck: goth-tinged New York City duo Heavy Halo have just whipped up a horny new vampire video for their latest single, “New Blood.”
The tune comes from the band’s soon-to-be-released Damaged Dream album, and it finds vocalist-guitarist McKeever and producer Gosteffects working away from the industrial drive of 2024 single “Damage Me” to instead harness chorus-effect-watery guitar lines, nervously propulsive drum-machine hits, and darkly romantic lyrics about wanting to feel something new.
“The simplest and most direct song on the record, ‘New Blood’ is about live-wire desire, the belief that intoxicating romance can strike like a bolt from the blue and pull you out of the doldrums of stagnancy,” the group explained in a joint statement.
The mostly black-and-white music video was directed by Brendan McGowan (Lamb of God, Mastodon, Imperial Triumphant), and draws inspiration from 1930s-era Universal Horror classics. Filmed in the basement of Brooklyn “goth haunt” Talon Bar, it features a coterie of fanged musicians, artists and fashion designers from the New York underground reveling in each other’s nocturnal company.
Silky spankings and makeout sessions abound, and the plasma cocktails flow freely during Heavy Halo’s performance. Late in the vid, an illuminating newcomer to the Talon Bar sets off the regulars’ communal bloodlust. You can see how that plays out up above.
Damaged Dream is out soon via Silent Pendulum records, with various vinyl pre-orders currently available on the label’s website.