Witch Club Satan – Self Release Their Most Extreme Music Video For “Fresh Blood, Fresh Pussy”

The feminist Norwegian black metal band, Witch Club Satan is not afraid to stain their cultural heritage with menstrual blood.

                     Stills from Witch Club Satan’s upcoming music video

The trio split the Norwegian music scene with their sensational entrance. After they had played only their third-ever concert at Øya in 2022, they were hailed by both NME and Rolling Stone (AU) as being the new Norwegian breakout act.

The band was declared not safe for work (NSFW) by NME, who described the act as “genuinely terrifying”. After releasing their debut album on March 8th. The band has now signed with Doomstar Booking, and is now setting its sights on international territoryy, touring Europe and releasing a bloody music video, using images taken from one of Norway’s national icons, Edward Munch.

Munch and black metal have a lot in common. Together, they put a new face on the uncomfortable truth, and resonate with a far wider audience than the metal-enthusiasts than the metal-enthusiasts.

When the feminist black metal band Witch Club Satan releases their most extreme music video, it’s with references to Munch.

                    Stills from Witch Club Satan’s upcoming music video

If you ask anyone abroad about Norwegian culture, they’ll probably mention Munch, Ibsen and Black Metal. “We take advantage of, and are inspired by all of them”, the band says in a press release.

Black metal, which started out as a rebellion against the safe and established in small towns around Norway, has grown to become a worldwide phenomenon. Today, the genre is as much a part of Norwegian cultural heritage as, for example, Edvard Munch, and has an impact far beyond Norway’s borders.

Mixing Edvard Munch’s expressive motifs with the dark, bass-heavy music of black metal has actually helped to give the genre a new face. The black metal scene is no longer strongly associated with church burnings, murder and crime. It has been elevated from a repellent subculture to an important and natural part of Norwegian cultural heritage, helped by Munch, and major national art institutions.

In the spring of 2022, the black metal band Satyricon created a specially composed musical work to accompany selected paintings and graphic works by Edvard Munch. In the spring of 2023, Nationalbiblioteket held the exhibition “Dårlig stemning” (bad atmosphere) – a comprehensive curation of events, a podcast and a book publication that invited the public into the dark expressions of black metal and examined the genre as an artistic expression and cultural phenomenon.

                     Stills from Witch Club Satan’s upcoming music video

Several of the key cultural influences on Norwegian black metal – from Theodor Kittelsen to Dungeons & Dragons – were highlighted during the exhibition. But also new and exciting influences which included WCS.

The upcoming music video is directed by one of the most significant rock photographers in Norway, Stian Andersen, who has directed for some of the most influential Scandinavian acts, such as Girl in Red, Robyn, Kvelertak, Susanne Sundfør and Karpe.

The music video promises to carry forth Witch Club Satan’s unmistakable signature and match their extreme live performances.

The song “Fresh Blood, Fresh Pussy” is an explicit, raging song that takes black metal back to its punk roots. The song depicts fragmented and disturbed scenes from a young woman’s menstrual life, her complex relationship with her mother, cycle, sexuality and anger. According to the band, “Fresh Blood, Fresh Pussy” is metal’s answer to Cardi B’s song WAP.

“In dialog with the band, we’ve been keen to create extreme images that feel disturbing and uncanny. We play around with heavy symbolism, completely in line with the infamous black metal aestetics”, Andersen says.

As the video starts, a reconstruction of Munch’s famous painting “Vampyr” from 1893 comes to life, evolving into a gory womb.

The music video “Fresh Blood, Fresh Pussy” will be released on the 23rd of October.