OTEP Covers NIRVANA's 'Breed'; Video Available

November 16, 2007

Headbanger's Blog reports: For their new video, OTEP created a spiritual, but nightmarish vision for their cover of NIRVANA's "Breed" from their new album, "The_Ascension", which came out October 30. The band shot the clip earlier this year with director Paul Brown, who helped OTEP craft a surreal commentary about materialism, the media and perceptions of happiness.

"It was my pleasure to work with Paul Brown again," says frontwoman Otep Shamaya. "We had such an amazing time creating this video. The 'girl fed by TV' is actually my niece and I am so proud of her. She did an amazing job. NIRVANA is one of my favorite bands and filming this video made me realize just how vacant the creative world is today without Kurt Cobain."

The video will make its on-air debut Saturday night (November 17) on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball".

OTEP's new album, "The_Ascension", sold 10,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 81 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Produced by Dave Fortman (MUDVAYNE, EVANESCENCE),"The_Ascension" sees the band challenging itself to avoid clichés and classifications and finding a new landscape of sound and vision. "We said 'genre limits and music fads be damned, let's write music that is important to us and that motivates us," explained Shamaya. "I wanted to write songs we believe in and let nothing stop us from building the album we want to make."

Watch OTEP's "Breed" video below (Note: Video stream is **NOT** available to non-U.S. residents).

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