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The Dillinger Escape Plan Stream New Song “Prancer”
Math metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan has released a new song entitled “Prancer”, which comes off their upcoming album One Of Us Is The Killer (out May 14th via Sumerian Records). The song is also available for purchase on iTunes. The song is below along with the lyrics.
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“Prancer” lyrics:
how could it all be
we’ve never been dead
but never awake from this dream
how could it all be
we’ll never be dead
just mirrors running scared
slicing wrists while we look for our own mortality
all the lights went out cold
shadow covers the soul
essence of the world made ceremonial
now we all wait for the demise
what was the question
why do you need an answer
we make me nauseas
I guess it just means I need us
ripe for me to eat your juice runs sweet
never so good
funny how nothing chips away at us like us
check the unlocked door but it’s still locked
always locked
talk to me across the way as if you don’t even know me
and as if I could never give even half a fuck at all
for the record there is never anyone controlling
our trajectory is ours
funny thing is when this is all just memories
looking back will be the same as moving forward
I’ll probably give anything to try to go back in time
time when I didn’t have to
empty lips just for distraction
rip the demons from their sleep
fornicate inside me
gouge my eyes out so I’ll never weep
how could it all be
we finally figured this shit out
and now you’ll see that you were all wrong
but you were all just mirrors running scared
just some ghosts wearing my skin
trying to disbelieve it
fuck you now try to disbelieve it
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Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.