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PREMIERE: Blitz//Berlin Wish You a Happy Halloween with Their Creepy "Jesus Shoes" Video

'Tis the season for freaky masks and gasoline fires.

It's still officially a week from Halloween but to some, the time has already come to unleash their inner freakiness upon the world. Toronto's Blitz//Berlin, acquainted with the supernatural from their work on horror movie soundtracks, are ringing in the season with a new album Distance, and a video for their song "Jesus Shoes." It's an eerie clip that stars the band as masked weirdos stalking another masked weirdo around a typically grey Toronto alleyway. It fits the song's industrial grind to a tee, especially when things literally heat up towards the end.

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“I was really inspired by the fall season and the pulsing rhythmic feel of the track,” says director Emma Higgins. "I wanted to create a sort of dark suburban vibe with a bit of a campy fun 80’s -90’s monster squad thing happening. Walking a line between modern twisted and goofy horror camp to create something unique and fresh.”

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Phil Witmer is a writer living in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter.