Premiere: Dude Cervantes Shares New Video for “Blood within the Water”

Sophomore Album Dreamers Is Due Out This 12 months

Aug 17, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Images by Santiago Guzman

San Diego-based singer/songwriter Dude Cervantes has performed a wide range of totally different roles over time, together with session musician, frontman, filmmaker, producer, and label proprietor. In 2017, he added to that artistic unfold together with his full-length solo debut album, All By Myself, and later this yr he’s set to share his sophomore effort, Dreamers. Forward of the album’s launch, Cervantes has already shared a pair of recent singles, “Blood In The Water” and “Everybody, All over the place, Every part,” and immediately he’s again with an accompanying video for “Blood In The Water,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.

“Blood within the Water” is a shadowy piano-driven observe, shaded with pounding keys and searing guitar strains. Cervantes sends the observe galloping alongside at an insistent tempo, steadily ratcheting up the stress because the guitars turned gnarled and distorted and the vocals develop extra frenzied. That stress lets free within the observe’s ultimate moments, with Cervantes howling his approach by a blaze of bombarding drums, keys, and guitars. In the meantime, the accompanying video hits on a equally darkish and off-kilter tone, nodding to previous westerns and crime epics.

Cervantes says of the video, “This video was loads of enjoyable to make and create, starring myself Dan “Dude” Cervantes, my spouse Tina White Cervantes of Arduous To Kill Leather-based, and our good pal (and barber) Giacamo Vernice as the three cut-throat killers in what we name” ‘he den of wolves.’ It was written and filmed with buddies Rory Morison aka Unusual Bouquets, and his brother Grey Morison, who I labored with on two earlier Mrs. Henry music movies ‘A Time Like This,’ and ‘Peace, Love, Rock N Roll.’

We went with some excessive nods to our favorites Tarantino and Lynch movies, from the shut shave with demise to the blow torching of the cigar to the basic cowboy gun-in-the-pants transfer. I imply, the video ends with me terminating my quickly to be spouse and barber so somewhat gentle comedy appeared acceptable for the darkish story. The track is concerning the sharks, or wolves if you’ll, which can be consistently making an attempt to deceive and get the higher of you in a vicious minimize throat music trade. On the nostril to say the least and based mostly on my experiences up to now working with everybody you could work with to be able to get forward as an unbiased artist or label proprietor within the twenty first Century.

It’s an extended strategy to the highest if you wish to rock n roll and a brief record of these you’ll be able to belief.”

Try the track and video under, out in all places now. Dreamers is due out later this yr.