Chelsea Wolfe - 16 Psyche

What this video is

Released in August 2017 as the lead single and promotional video for Chelsea Wolfe's album Hiss Spun (Sargent House, September 22, 2017), '16 Psyche' arrived at a moment of renewed critical interest in the intersection of goth, doom metal, and art-rock. The video was explicitly framed as a homage to the late-1990s/early-2000s alt-metal video canon—an era defined by Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing…

Why it matters

A landmark example of 2010s gothic doom metal's crossover into mainstream music video culture, '16 Psyche' demonstrated that the visual language of late-1990s alt-metal could be revived and elevated with contemporary production values. Wolfe's video helped cement her status as a defining figure of…

The director

Zev Deans is a New York-based music video director and founder of Panorama Programming Inc. He is primarily known for groundbreaking videos for heavy and avant-garde artists including Behemoth, Ghost, Portal, Lamb of God, Denzel Curry, Gojira, St. Vincent,…