Bloody-Disgusting has teamed up with Madison, WI stoner/sludge rock/metal band Romero to bring you the exclusive music video premiere for their track “Compliments & Cocktails”! Directed by Tim Consequence, the band’s organ player, the video mixes performance footage with archived 16mm footage that has a potentially dark and twisted history (more on that below). It’s a fun video for a badass track, so head on below to enjoy the show!

The band has a multi-city tour planned for later this year. The band is entering the studio this month to record a new single for the summer & is also currently demoing material for a new album.

“Compliments & Cocktails” comes from the band’s album Take The Potion, which can be downloaded for free via the band’s Bandcamp (where physical copies are available for purchase as well).

The footage from this video has its own interesting backstory that is best explained when quoted:

The actual 16mm film stock used in the video is fascinating in itself. The film was found to have been hand-painted by Russian schoolchildren in the late 70s. This footage was discovered by organist, Consequence, when he purchased a 16mm Russian Krasnogorsk camera and Bell & Howell projector at an estate sale. Evidently, the owner of the items was a teacher from the Kargopol district in Russia who defected to the United States in the 80’s. This area, about 400 miles from St. Petersburg, is ghastly infamous, as it was once home to a sex & self-immolation cult called “The Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death”.

Frontman Jeffrey Mundt comments:

When you buy something from an estate sale…a lot of times there is a story attached to the item. You never really know if any of the story is true and I don’t know if this footage is real, but it’s pretty crazy to think about. Some of the imagery, colors and words scrawled into the film seem to track very eerily with the stories and they give a feeling of simple, yet deep, emotional understanding. Ultimately, this video references ritual and the human need to relieve stress through repetition. Good or bad, light or dark, it’s only morality that dictates the validity of our euphoria.

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