I still have a hard time watching it, mainly because of the smell it conjures up while we were filming it and the believable state our actor was able to project. I’m so grateful that Skynd embraced this concept and fostered the vision of something that was truly uncomfortable to even film, much less think about. Something, that by anyone’s standard, would be a complete failure, yet in his eyes, a masterpiece of delicacy. The idea was built on following his manic progression of working on a recipe. There was something particularly twisted about the idea of him being addicted to cooking shows. For this video, we really wanted to explore the madness, that compulsive energy behind Armin’s frame of mind.
We can either live in denial and imagine they don’t exist or we can dig deeper into what makes them tick so we know what to look for. Brown also weighs in on the visual, who says, “monsters live among us. The new music video was directed by critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated director PR Brown, who also lensed the video for the previous single Chris Watts. Watch the official music video for Armin Meiwes here: Meiwes didn’t seem like the typical beast you’d imagine when you think of a ‘cannibal.’ But then again, you might ask yourself, ‘What does a cannibal even look like?’ It’s a story that hasn’t left me for years and I feel like I have finally translated it into music.” When I investigated the case, I watched an interview with him. His urge to own someone and to fully merge with somebody trumped his common sense. He wanted to reach another level of climax, because fantasies that he had held since he was a little boy weren’t enough for him anymore. Meiwes didn’t have his inner animal tamed. It sounds insane on the surface, but it’s also really sad story about being lonely and engaging in an internal fight of fantasy versus reality.
“The arrangement was an entirely consensual cannibalistic murder. He also underwent several plastic surgery procedures and participated in. The boy was born with the name of Eric Clinton Kirk Newman, but in 2006 he decided to change his name to Luka Rocco Magnotta. Luka Magnotta is a Canadian assassin, currently in prison for the murder of his lover Lin Jun. “This is just a really bizarre story,” Skynd shares about the new song. 4 real snuff movies currently onlineLuka Magnotta. The new single is taken from the band’s upcoming new EP, Chapter IV, more information of which will be unveiled in due course. The new music video, for the track Armin Meiwes, is the brand new single from the industrial-tinged true crime duo and comes on the back of recent festival appearances at Download and Rock am Ring.