Nine Inch Nails 'Came Back Haunted' VIDEO May Cause Seizures for Epileptics
Nine Inch Nails' new video for their single Came Back Haunted was posted on YouTube and Vevo Friday morning with a viewer discretion label.
The frenetic music video features flashing lights and rapid, unsettling editing, which is why the following label was placed before it: "This video has been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised."
The video features Nine Inch Nails lead singer Trent Reznor in extreme close-up singing intercut with flashing shapes and lights. A series of red squares are featured throughout the video quickly flashing in the foreground.
Other elements featured in the video include billowing smoke, cartoonish lightning bolts, a disfigured skeleton head and an unidentifiable image that gets flipped and inverted at various stages throughout.
The video's director, David Lynch, is known in the industry for his abstract filming style and dark themes. He became famous in the '70s and '80s for his dark disturbing films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet. He then went on to create the dark TV drama Twin Peaks as well as avant-garde films Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire.
Reznor has worked with Lynch before, producing the soundtrack for Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. This is their first collaboration since. Reznor teased his followers on Twitter on June 19 with a photo of the pair together.
Came Back Haunted is Nine Inch Nails' first single off their upcoming album Hesitation Marks. They debuted the song on June 6, their first new single since 2008. Hesitation Marks is set to be released in the U.S. on Sept. 3. They will begin touring through North America on Sept. 28 starting in St. Paul, Minn. Click here for the band's official tour dates.
Watch the video for Came Back Haunted here, but proceed with caution:
