Niis offers no quarter on metallic thrasher "Lovesick"
Los Angeles’ Niis have unleashed their latest single, “Lovesick,” a fast and furious metallic thrasher boiling over with an unrelenting onslaught of pounding rhythms, jagged guitar, and take-no-prisoners attitude.
“Lovesick” stays true to the band’s modus operandi of packaging muscular feminine stances into blisteringly feral explosions of unhinged ferocity, blending leather and lace into whip-smart diatribes that amplify female empowerment while railing against the patriarchy with brutal impunity. Opening with a chugging riff that rolls and churns with murderous intent, “Lovesick” quick breaks loose into a full-bore ripper that juxtaposes a candy-coated hook with the abject sonic chaos of a tornado ravaging a barb-wire factory, driven hard by a devilish come-on eviscerating eardrums with a throat-rending scream - “here, piggy!”
Drawing inspiration from the underground Marvel anti-heroine Domino Lady who first emerged in the late 1930s as a masked vigilante that leveraged a fatal combination of brains and beauty to seduce and subdue her nefarious targets, director Meriel O’Connell casts Niis frontwoman Mimi Doe as a dominatrix with a mortal vendetta against faithless lovers. Stalking her prey through the stately corridors of a crumbling mansion, Doe terrorizes from room to room with the gleeful insanity of Roy Batty hot on Deckard’s trail, brandishing blades and brawn before cornering the quarry like pigs in the slaughterhouse only to vanishing into thin air - a spectre of the mind manifested into horrifying reality by guilt-ridden psyches.
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