Metal Anarchy

Twin Temple have premiered a video for the title track of their new album “Doomed Lovers.” That effort will be released on October 9.

Alexandra James commented:

“‘Doomed Lovers’, to us, carries both a Saturnian darkness and a watery, Venusian beauty. The feeling of light shimmering across the surface of an endless black sea. I had a recurring vision of our last day as lovers on a forsaken Earth: waiting for the world to end, with nothing left but each other and imminent doom upon the horizon.

It was important to us that the video feel like something unearthed rather than manufactured, so we shot the entire video on 16mm film with Dante Capone and Fred Joseph, who used classic Hollywood optical effects and in-camera double exposure techniques. There’s something imperfect and fleeting about film that felt essential to the story, like a lost memory of a world that is already disappearing.

The ocean became the central metaphor. It represents wonder and the unknown, immense power and terrible beauty, and a sense of grandeur- the kind of beauty that swallows you whole. In that way, it felt like love itself. Vast, seductive, dangerous, and ultimately impossible to contain.

We folded in some ritual Magick, nods to Occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and the echoes of the Beach Boys singing about surfer girls along the coast. We hope the result is a kind of beautiful lover’s nightmare.”