SHADOWS FALL Singer Talks About 'What Drives The Weak' Video

October 11, 2004

SHADOWS FALL singer Brian Fair spoke to MTV.com about the group's video for the priority single from "The War Within", "What Drives the Weak", which was recently shot in Los Angeles by Zach Merck (who has directed all of the band's videos). While the clip could have easily lent itself to the kind of barroom shots and concert footage of SHADOWS FALL's other vids, this time around the band wanted to do something more conceptual.

"It's a really dark video of us going through this house and seeing images from the past about the effects of alcohol," Fair said. "We did it in this crazy, burned-out old crack house. You walk into the house and open different doors and see different images of chaos, whether it's someone passed out with a bunch of bottles or someone smashing up a room with a baseball bat. It's like this $5 tour of the crack house, and we're playing in the living room."

"What Drives the Weak" examines the other side of Fair's personality and exposes the weakness that he can't or doesn't want to escape. "It's about waking up after a night of insanity, feeling fucked up, but then getting fucked up to do the same dumb shit again the next day," he said. "It really becomes a weakness when you fall into that cycle and give up responsibility and use that as a crutch to get away with murder." Read more.

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