Last time we caught up with Mammothor, the Boston hard rock and metal band broadcast a blistering shot of “Novocaine” that numbed us nicely to all the bullshit going on in the world. Today (October 28), they return on the eve of Halloween weekend with a video for “Parasomnia,” a relatively atmospheric track that cranks up the nocturnal riff machine loud enough to keep us awake all night. It’s the latest track off 2021’s The Ecstasy Of Silence…The Agony Of Dreams album, and the video was filmed and edited by Jim Foster of Framingham’s Red 13 Studios, and it’s the stuff of torture-based nightmares.
“I’ve always had trouble sleeping,” admits vocalist Travis Lowell. “When I was a kid, I suffered from wicked night terrors. My parents even took me to do a sleep study, and doctors did a brain scan to make sure nothing was wrong. I would seemingly wake up, but my mind would still be ‘stuck’ in a nightmare, even though I was walking around with my eyes open. It was terrifying.”
Yikes!
Lowell also pulls back the curtain on the video, adding: “I have worked with Red 13 a few times between Mammothor and my mainstream rock project Ashes to Embers. One thing they are always good at: Location scouting! In this case, we were originally looking for a setting in a large home or mansion… when that didn’t pan out, Red 13 pulled a ‘Plan B’: An old, abandoned milk factory! Filming at the factory was a bit of a challenge, mainly because safety has to be a priority while natural lighting is almost non-existent and everything for filming has to be powered by batteries or generators. It was a challenge for the team, for sure, but the results were phenomenal. I’m not sure if the milk factory was haunted or not, but I may or may not have heard some ghostly ‘moos’ from the shadows…”
Watch it now, and watch it later tonight while laying in bed wide awake.