Lusk ＂Backworlds＂ official video - Lusk ＂Backworlds＂ official video

What this video is

Released in 1997, 'Backworlds' emerged from the fertile post-grunge LA underground, produced by a supergroup drawing members from Tool, Failure, Medicine, and the Replicants. The video's MTV run — particularly its dominance on the viewer-voted 12 Angry Viewers — documents a brief window when late-night alternative programming could elevate genuinely experimental work to heavy rotation. The warm, nostalgia-drenched…

Why it matters

A foundational document of mid-90s neo-psychedelia and the LA experimental rock underground. 'Backworlds' demonstrates how alt-rock supergroup projects of the era used the music video format as an extension of album-level artistic vision — surrealist imagery, lo-fi film texture, and tonal warmth…

The director

Len E. Burge III is a video director credited on the 1997 Lusk 'Backworlds' video. Paul D'Amour is the bassist and co-founder of Lusk, formerly of Tool, who co-directed the video alongside Burge. D'Amour also co-produced the Free Mars album on Volcano…