Metal Anarchy

Showing Teeth has premiered a new video for her new song “Hellraiser.” You can check that out below. The track was previously featured in the end credits of Shudder’s horror anthology film “V/H/S/Mixtape.”

Showing Teeth commented:

“I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hellraiser’ when I was feeling punished for being a woman.

Being raised in a Christian conservative area, I suffered so much misogyny and sexualization for just existing as a child and young woman. By the very people claiming to hold the keys to heaven.

I’ve escaped that part of my life, but it would be hard to find a single woman that has escaped that feeling.

Especially now, when the current President of the U.S. was found liable by a jury for sexual assault and defamation, and can still be in power and make decisions that greatly impact women’s lives.

That same President is mentioned thousands of times in the redacted Epstein files; the files are full of people in power, and their proximity to or involvement in crimes against women and children is clear.

Many of these people swear on a bible and fearmonger in the name of God, pandering to people in my community, all the while, protecting pedophiles and rapists.

Because of my upbringing and being surrounded by the constant hypocrisy and hate involved in American Christianity, I think God as we know it is dead. But hell is very real, and the devil shows his face every time someone is hurt, assaulted, oppressed, or killed because of who they are.”

She also added the following about the video:

“It was important to me to include drag artists in the ‘Hellraiser’ video, because of the inspiration they give me in my writing, as well as to push back against the punishment drag art receives from Christian conservative media. I remember the first time I saw a horror drag artist, and it changed everything I knew about art; the contrast of the beauty and the gore felt like something I had been missing in the art I consumed. Horror drag has inspired so much in my music and my life.

Thank you to every single person who brought this video to life. Thank you Rogue Bonaventura for once again breathing life into the Showing Teeth universe. And thank you to the incredible drag artists that MADE this video: Biqtch Puddiń, Mylique E. Fawcett, Valeria Atreides, [and] VHEX. This is my favorite thing I’ve ever been apart of. Please watch the video and show everyone credited at the end some love. And thank you for being here 🤍”