clipping. - Blood of the Fang

What this video is

Released October 3, 2019 as a lead single from clipping.'s third album 'There Existed an Addiction to Blood' (Sub Pop, October 18, 2019), the video arrives during a period of acute national reckoning with anti-Black violence and police brutality in the United States. The video's central inspiration — a historical photograph of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton handcuffed to a hospital gurney following a…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of late-2010s political noise-rap and horrorcore, demonstrating how experimental hip-hop could absorb Black horror cinema, protest art, and body horror into a formally rigorous music video. The video extends clipping.'s established practice of fusing industrial noise production…

The director

Lars Jan (born 1978) is a Los Angeles-based director and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, photography, sculpture, video installation, and writing. He is founder and artistic director of Early Morning Opera, a genre-bending art lab.…