On “Soldiers of Misfortune”--the first track from FILTER’s forthcoming ANTHEMS FOR THE DAMNED CD, due out Tuesday, May 13--frontman RICHARD PATRICK didn’t necessarily set out to write a modern day protest song. But when he sat down to develop ideas for the new FILTER record, the war was at the forefront of his mind. And when it came time to create a video for the song, PATRICK collaborated with director Evan Lane to convey the song’s sentiments with gritty and powerful images.
“This song is a pro-troops, anti-war song and the video shows how this country is being consumed by its need for oil,” says PATRICK. A bleak and forceful statement about the war, the “Soldiers of Misfortune” clip alternates between live performance visuals of FILTER--with oil dripping over them throughout--and images of American flags, purple hearts and soldiers all being swallowed up and destroyed by oil. Beyond that, viewers see burning money and newspapers with headlines straight off the presses and bloody body parts. It was created as an homage to “the young men and women serving this country and who are dying in Iraq for a war based on oil” according to PATRICK who recently performed for the troops in Kuwait as part of the Operation MySpace concert
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