Adult Swim Festival premiered the new video for “Never Look Back," the latest from RTJ's acclaimed album,RTJ4. Directed by noted Australian filmmakerJohn Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition; music videos for Nick Cave, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode), the video is an homage to George Romero’s classic film and perennial midnight movie favoriteNight of the Living Dead. In this re-telling, RTJ are dropped in the film’s narrative, as footage of them navigating a burgeoning zombie outbreak is seamlessly intercut with scenes from the 1968 film, which recently entered the public domain. As a ragtag group of survivors hole up in a dilapidated house, staving off their imminent demise by watching Run the Jewels performing the song live from the future on an old black and white television set, Killer Mike & El-P unwittingly stumble into their own nightmare. Pointing to the enduring legacy of the original film, the video’s cast includes cameos from the Walking Dead’sNorman Reedus and Day of the Dead’sGreg Nicotero, and was shot on location in Atlanta, GA.
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