Metallers Slay Squad have released their new video single titled “Seishin,” which you can check out below. The clip was directed and edited by the band’s own Brahim Gouse and features live footage from one of their shows.
A presser states, “Equal parts radical art collective and hardcore punk band. SLAY SQUAD is comprised of a tightly knit but ruggedly individualistic brotherhood of visionary provocateurs, rhyme-slingers, beatmakers, video producers, metalcore shredders, bare-knuckle fighters, and street philosophers. Completely DIY to this day, the group came together as teenagers and built a rock-solid foundation around a multitude of shared interests, including hip-hop, metal, photography, and skating.”
They continue, “Today’s new track, “Seishin” is a perfect example of the band’s unique and stylistically diverse sound that they refer to as “ghetto metal”. “Seishin” exhibits the very best of this genre melting pot – savagely heavy beatdowns and ferociously gutteral screams combine seamlessly with slick, modern rap and trap elements creating authentic almost undefinable art that is both fresh and dangerously exhilarating.”
Slay Squad add, “Seishin is the Japanese word for Sprit. This song is an expression of empowerment, of trust of self vs external influence, of how we, as melanated people, gotta know what’s really inside of us and trust the perfection that exists within. An expression of our Spirit. We are designed perfectly in our own image, why the fuck would we want to be like anyone else?”
They end with, “One’s environment sculpts one and can indirectly cause you to carry yourself a certain way if you’ve been subject to rough situations. We won’t fall for these evils and influences we’re subjected to. The music video shows us comfortably playing through the fires of the ‘evils’ we’re subjected to. Maintaining our trust of self. Maintaining our Spirit.”
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Slay Squad are:
Brahim Gousse – Vocals
Keilo Kei – Vocals
Gordo – Guitar
Stick – Bass
Tim Ryan – Drums
Cheeze – DJ
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