Austin’s long‑running industrial metal oddity Lucid Dementia has unveiled the first video from their new album Hexery, and it arrives wrapped in ritual, menace, and a distinctly DIY sense of surrealism. “Witches Hat” is presented as a low‑budget experiment — a deliberate attempt to blur the line between an occult crime scene and a music video, capturing the band’s twisted imagination in its rawest form.
At its core, “Witches Hat” is a warning. The song confronts the violation of consent, using Lucid Dementia’s trademark blend of horror‑theatre lyricism and industrial aggression to illustrate what should befall a soul who crosses that boundary. The band’s dual‑vocal interplay — female/male, human/other — amplifies the narrative, turning the track into a dark fable rather than a simple cautionary tale.
The video unfolds in three symbolic acts:
The Transgression — A grimy hand reaches out, strokes, then crushes a flower until it bleeds, before withdrawing into shadow.
The Spell — A witch manipulates ritual objects on a table, casting judgment with quiet, deliberate precision.
The Consequence — A person finds themselves trapped in a pitch‑black room with the band, armed only with a camera emitting a single pinhole of light.
Inside this claustrophobic chamber, Lucid Dementia perform the song as if emerging from a fever dream. The trapped figure cannot look away; the band becomes both tormentor and oracle, their silhouettes flickering in the darkness. The video ends without answers — only questions. Why this person? Why this punishment? The band hints that the rest of Hexery may hold the clues.
Lucid Dementia describes themselves as “gothic industrial experimental surrealist neurodivergent pop” — a horror‑driven hybrid of metal, electronics, and industrial noise, shaped by a uniquely theatrical sensibility. Their work has long resonated beyond the underground: their music has appeared in NCIS, the horror film Sweatshop, the indie comedy Kopy Kings, and their video “It Came From The Dead” famously features Michael Baldwin of Phantasm.
On stage, the band has carved out a cult presence across the United States, sharing bills with international dark‑scene staples such as Combichrist, Clan Of Xymox, Razed In Black, and The Crüxshadows.
With “Witches Hat”, Lucid Dementia once again prove that their world is one where nightmares breathe, symbols bleed, and morality tales are delivered with claws out. Hexery promises more shadows — and more revelations — for those willing to step inside. Link
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"Art isn't meant to always be pretty and make us feel comfortable and good about ourselves. I'm not afraid to broach difficult emotions and to express the beautiful ones too." - Martin Saint
"I like to call our music suicide pop, because our songs are pretty easy to listen to, but the topics are very negative and quite dark. It's pop, but negative pop." - Simone Salvatori
"Within this darkness, where there's no light at all, the golden raven still shines. It's not like a perfectly cut statue of Michelangelo..." - Val Perun
"I think it's basically a mutation of a lot of different things — like a hybrid creature nobody quite knows how to categorise. A heretic, I guess." - Håvard Ellefsen (Mortiis)
