Million Dead - 'I Am The Party'

What this video is

Released in November 2003 as the third single from Million Dead's debut album 'A Song to Ruin' (Integrity/Xtra Mile), 'I Am The Party' arrived at the peak of the UK post-hardcore boom that also produced Funeral for a Friend and Hell Is for Heroes. The band — an Anglo-Australian quartet fronted by Oxford history graduate Frank Turner — were known for unusually literate, politically charged lyrics, and this track…

Why it matters

A defining artefact of the 2003 UK post-hardcore moment — a genre inflection point influenced by At the Drive-In's avant-punk and shaped by the British indie press ecosystem. Million Dead's sophisticated lyrical politics and raw sonic energy distinguished them within a crowded scene, and 'I Am The…

The director

Adam Mason (b. Cambridge, 1975) graduated from the London Film School and subsequently directed over 70 music videos for UK rock and metal acts including Cradle of Filth, Within Temptation, Dragonforce, Mansun, Sikth, and Million Dead, before transitioning…