Escuela Grind is now streaming their devastating new single “Forced Collective Introspection” alongside a music video directed by Michael Jari Davidson (Alice In Chains). The single takes inspiration from the 1971 film THX 1138, whose runtime explores a future controlled by android police and humans suppressed by mandatory drugs. And I mean, really – how far are we off from that now anyway?

“We again teamed up with director Michael Jari Davidson to create the video for “Forced Collective Introspection”, says Escuela Grind vocalist Katerina Economou. “The video references 1971’s anti-authoritarian movie THX 1138, where the band is held in a white void by masked guards, and reduced to objectified numbers. Harassed in prison cells, the band makes their escape in a Shawshank fashion. The theme of the video runs throughout all of our music: we must resist and attempt to escape their control to regain our humanity.”

Escuela Grind will release their new record Memory Theater on September 30. Pre-orders are available here.