Since 2013, Death Valley Girls has created garage rock/psych-pop/proto-metal music. Based in Los Angeles, the group describes themselves as “California doom boogie” style with a dash of Manson Family. We were lucky enough to grab an exclusive look at their music video for the track, “Bliss Out,” directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg.
Death Valley Girls was founded by drummer Patty Schemel (Hole), her brother Larry Schemel, vocalist Bonnie Bloomgarden, and bass player Rachel Orosco. “Bliss Out” is a track from their fourth full-length album, Under The Spell of Joy.
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Greenberg told us a bit about her inspiration for the video. She said, “[the video] was based on many of my dreams. I wanted to tell a story of the struggle of the heart, inner torment, and at last, bliss.”
Greenberg worked with several genre icons, such as Kansas Bowling, Zac Amico, and Amanda Flowers, and performance artists to make her vision come together. Even her godmother Reverend Jen appears. She said of the cast,
“It’s a pretty big cast for a music video but I wanted it to span all these different locations and stories. I envisioned Jen’s scenes with fellow performers Todd Montesi and John Thomas Foster as beings on the astral plane gambling with the heart. Amanda’s character is wrestling with her inner selves – her urges, her past, and her future. I also was lucky to have Josafat Concepcion appear as a master of birds and Nick Fiore of SmutCave appear as a being of smoke and fire. Glamhag appears as a senior citizen representing temptation, and LJ Vernon and Ian Anderson also appear as sort of “orderlies” in a house of the mind. Glitter Macabre appears as fear, holding the heart in their hand.
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This cast of characters helps create the non-linear, chaotic energy of the music video. “I think Bliss Out is a fantastic, sprawling song,” said Greenberg. “I wanted to represent it with the appropriate visual scale it deserved.”
Laura “The Kid” Kelsey wrote the lyrics and Bonnie Bloomgarden wrote the music. Co-writer “The Kid” Kelsey says, “A simple but important reminder…be here right now cuz we’re all gonna die.”
Co-writer Bloomgarden says, “It’s so easy to get wrapped up in worries about the past, or fear of the future that we forget, right here, right now, we are all floating in the sky, together. And it is heaven now and all the time. “
