Ghost premiere two new animated music videos from ‘Rite Here Rite Now’ concert film
nme.comGhost have released two new animated music videos – check them out below.The masked Swedish metallers have shared two animated clips – one of which was shown in their recent concert film RITE HERE RITE NOW, and the other for their new single ‘The Future Is A Foreign Land’.Despite ‘Mary On A Cross’ being released in 2019, the song never got a full-fledged music video – even after it went viral in 2022 on TikTok.
So instead of sharing live concert footage of ‘Mary On A Cross’ in RITE HERE RITE NOW, the band chose to craft an animated video to tell the story of the track.Speaking to NME about the film, director Alex Ross Perry explained why live concert footage of ‘Mary On A Cross’ was swapped out for an animated video: “There was always meant to be a music video for this song, but it never came together, and Tobias was never able to tell the story that he wanted to.
The band released a professionally shot live video for this song a while ago, and so Tobias said in the movie, it can’t just be that.“The animated video is the result of that.
And everything that he wanted would’ve made a $200,000 music video that would end up being a four-minute segment in a movie.
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