A 113-year-old stage, a gigantic spider web, a belly dancer and tons of smoke. What do all these things have in common? They all play a part in SABOTØR’s new video Edderkoppemor (Spider Mother).
Edderkoppemor is the third video off SABOTØR's 2022 debut album SKYGGEKÆMPER (Shadow Giants). This time SABOTØR worked with director/photographer Kristian Arnesen to produce an ambitious art video shot in black and white with a great deal of inspiration from Fritz Lang and the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s.
The inspiration for the song came from a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. A 30-foot-tall black spider bearing the title Maman (Mother). The track is a seven-minute epic that moves between dark and foreboding, doom-laden passages and powerful up-tempo riffs, all characterized by SABOTØR’s trademark style of heavy fuzz, groovy riffs and quirky and catchy vocal melodies.
As usual the lyrics are in the band’s native Danish. They deal with the fascination and frustration with conspiracy theories, superstition, religion and politics and conclude that they’re all webs spun by the mysterious Spider Mother. Like the Spider Mother’s offspring, we all exist in a web spun by language, culture, family, etc. The web constraints and frustrates us, but while it entangles us all, it stays incomprehensible, so instead of undertaking the difficult task of untangling the threads that restrain us, we tend to find various scapegoats to blame for our frustration and dissatisfaction.
SABOTØR are very proud to present this video that far exceeds anything we’ve done before. We hope you enjoy it.