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Slipknot Release Dark Video For “The Negative One”
Iowa metal band Slipknot have released an official music video for their new song “The Negative One”, which comes from their as-yet-untitled new album (out later this year via Roadrunner Records). You can download the track via iTunes.
The video takes place in a morgue-like environment and features strange, dark visuals that are reminscent of the House On Haunted Hill remake sprinkled with dashes of Hannibal. It is 100% a horror video made for horror fans. Watch it below and let me know your thoughts!
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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