To Speak Of Wolves - A Simple Thought That Changed Everything

What this video is

Released in 2012 via Solid State Records, this video represents the peak commercial moment for Christian metalcore — a subgenre that had spent the 2000s building grassroots infrastructure through church youth groups, the Warped Tour, and Christian music retail networks. To Speak Of Wolves, a Greensboro, North Carolina act, embodied the emotionally raw, community-accountability-driven ethos of bands on the Solid…

Why it matters

A canonical example of early-2010s Christian metalcore music video production, demonstrating how Solid State Records-era bands used rapid editing, naturalistic cinematography, and performance-narrative hybridity to communicate spiritual and emotional urgency within the visual grammar of mainstream…

The director

Ernie Gilbert is a Los Angeles-based director and editor who began his career directing and editing music videos in North Carolina. He has directed several dozen music videos and his credits include Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' (2018), Ghost's…