Chelsea Wolfe ＂Highway＂ - Chelsea Wolfe ＂Highway＂
What this video is
Released March 4, 2020 — weeks before global COVID-19 lockdowns — the 'Highway' video arrives as a document of open-road freedom and rural solitude that would acquire unanticipated resonance. It accompanies Birth of Violence (Sargent House, September 2019), Chelsea Wolfe's largely acoustic album marking a deliberate retreat from the dense sludge-metal textures of Hiss Spun (2017). The video's graveyard setting and…
Why it matters
A key artifact in the 2010s–2020s gothic Americana and neofolk revival, 'Highway' demonstrates how underground artists on independent labels (Sargent House) leverage intimate, low-budget auteur filmmaking to communicate aesthetic authenticity. The video's documentary naturalism stands in…
The director
Ben Chisholm is a musician and filmmaker who serves as Chelsea Wolfe's longtime musical collaborator and co-producer, with director credits on multiple Wolfe videos including Carrion Flowers (2015), The Culling (2018), Be All Things (2019), and Highway…
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