Warbeast's new album Enter The Arena is out now, and is the band's final album with vocalist Bruce Corbitt. Corbitt was diagnosed with esophageal cancer earlier this year and announced his retirement as a vocalist shortly thereafter, though Enter The Arena is one hell of an album to call it quits on.
In an even grander fashion, the band's music video for "Hitchhiker" isn't just that – it's quite literally an 18-minute short film that we're more than stoked to premiere for you all today! The video starts Ed Neal from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, who also plays a hitchhiker character.
Corbitt says the song is based on Neal's character, and is pretty much a dream come true for Warbeast and Corbitt.
I’ve actually had this idea of using Ed Neal for a music video for a long time. So after we knew for sure that we were going to include a song called “Hitchhiker” on the new Warbeast album. Obviously the timing was right to make this old idea become a new reality.
The lyrics for the song are based on Ed’s character from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But this short film/music video is not related to that movie plot in any way. This is really just a silly script and a band having fun working on our final project together. Ed was a complete professional and great to work with… and we are excited to have him starring in this. But like I said… this film isn’t to be taken serious… so I hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it.
Thanks to Michael Huebner and 12 Pound Productions for doing a great job filming and editing this video. I also got to give a shout-out to Lee Russell and Gas Monkey Live for allowing us to film the music portion of this film there.
If you haven't done so, grab Enter The Arena digitally here and physically here.
