After recently announcing that their new album, Darkness Rains, is set for release on Oct 5 via Suicide Squeeze Records, Los Angeles doom boogie/dystopian punk/occult glam rockers Death Valley Girls have shared a new single & video entitled ‘More Dead’. Speaking about the new track, the band commented: “After having experiences with people we love struggling to stay alive, we believe the harder the battle, the less one is able to ask for help. We wanted to write a song about how important and necessary each person is, especially these days. We need numbers now more than ever to fight the good fight.”

The video director Dylan Mars Greenberg went on to add “I wanted to create a video that dealt with a serious issue that affected both Bonnie and I but in an abstract way. I used animation to generate the concept of rebirth and the juxtaposition of aerial videography with dark environments to tell the story of the overworld and underworld fighting over a soul. I should also mention we filmed with an iguana indoors but then he escaped into Bronson canyon. We all believe he is now very strong and happy in his new world.”

On their third album, Darkness Rains, bassist Alana Amram, drummer Laura Harris, and a rotating cast of guests like Shannon Lay, The Kid (Laura Kelsey), and members of The Make Up, The Shivas, and Moaning help elevate the band from their rogue beginnings to a communal ritualistic musical force. On the surface level, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged, in the red, scuzzy rock every generation yearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.

'Darkness Rains' track list:

1. More Dead

2. (One Less Thing) Before I Die

3. Disaster (Is What We're After)

4. Unzip Your Forehead

5. Wear Black

6. Abre Camino

7. Born Again and Again

8. Street Justice

9. Occupation: Ghost Writer

10. TV in Jail on Mars

Los Angeles doom boogie/dystopian punk/occult glam rockers Death Valley Girls have announced their third studio album Darkness Rains, out October 5 via Suicide Squeeze. The announcement arrives with the Iggy Pop-starring video for the fierce new single, ‘Disaster (Is What We’re After)’.

The video, directed by Kansas Bowling and shot on 16mm film, is a recreation of the famous Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger short film, but starring Iggy Pop, eating a burger, listening to Death Valley Girls (which he proudly proclaims at the end).

“We’re strong believers in opti-mysticism and connecting with people through rock n’ roll,” Death Valley Girls say of the cosmically fitting union of Iggy Pop starring in their new video. “Having Iggy dig our music was more than amazing for us. When Kansas told us she had a dream about recreating the Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger short film but with Iggy starring for our music video, we were cautiously excited about the possibility. Next thing we know we’re in Miami with Iggy himself, and a rock n’ roll dream became reality!”

Darkness Rains track list:

1. More Dead

2. (One Less Thing) Before I Die

3. Disaster (Is What We're After)

4. Unzip Your Forehead

5. Wear Black

6. Abre Camino

7. Born Again and Again

8. Street Justice

9. Occupation: Ghost Writer

10. TV in Jail on Mars