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Paleface Premiere “The Orphan” Video

Paleface have shared an official video for their new song “The Orphan.” This track will appear on the group's new album “Fear & Dagger,” which is set to be released on March 25. Zelli commented:

"‘The Orphan’ is a song about the suffocating struggle people who suffer with depression go through. The feeling that life has no sense and simply isn’t worth living any longer. The idea that you get to such a hopeless and helpless point that you just give up and leave your life in the hands of death, like “Fuck it, I can’t do it anymore, so Death, do what you want with me”. You become The Orphan of The Deadman.

I wanted the video for "The Orphan" to really reflect the struggles of depression in a straight-in-your-face way. I didn’t want to pull any punches because that’s not the reality of struggling with mental health conditions like depression. The performances where I’m bound by chains and in the bathtub are visual representations of how depression can trap you and render you completely immobile and incapable of breaking free. It’s a metaphor for how hard it is to get out of depressive states. To other people it looks easy to just stand up and get out of the bathtub, but to the person suffering, it’s impossible and the will to fight is just not there, so the urge to surrender and let yourself drown becomes almost impossible to fight.