underscores’ “Everybody’s dead!” video is an absurdist nightmare

The song opens their most recent EP, December 2021’s boneyard aka fearmonger.

January 27, 2022

Of all the hyperpop bands in the business, underscores might be the most faithful descendants of their pop-punk progenitors. boneyard aka fearmonger, their December 2021 follow-up to last March's fishmonger, centers on its penultimate track, "Tongue in cheek," which features blink-182's Travis Barker on the drums. But it's the opener "Everybody's dead!" that sets the scene for the wild, seven-track ride.

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Its video begins with a classic horror sequence as a car approaches a dark figure unseen by its drivers, but quickly descends into the heavy-metal madness one wouldn't expect until the end of the film. Cockroaches, big-guy wrestlers, and mirrored characters acting eerily different from one another make for an absurd and thrilling experience that ends up being more fun than scary.

Watch it above.

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underscores’ “Everybody’s dead!” video is an absurdist nightmare