Blood Red Shoes presents “Dead Air”

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The duo share the theme created to accompany the atmosphere of the new Supermassive Games video game.

The British duo Blood Red Shoes is back with “Dead Air”a material designed to accompany the atmosphere of tension and survival of Directive 8020the new cinematographic horror title belonging to the saga The Dark Pictures Anthologydeveloped by Supermassive Games.

The song stands out for its dark and tense tone, designed to reflect the paranoia and chaos that the characters experience within this science fiction and space horror story. Besides, “Dead Air” maintains the essence that has characterized Blood Red Shoes from their first albums, with distorted guitars, explosive drums and an energy that mixedgarage rock with post punk.

Directive 8020 is the new bet Supermassive Games, studio known by titles such as Until Dawn and The Quarry. The video game follows the crew of the ship Cassiopeiawho must survive an alien threat capable of imitating any human being. Likewise, the story takes inspiration from horror and science fiction classics such as Alien and The Thing.

This launch demonstrates that music is a fundamental element to create immersive experiences in different formats, as is the case this time with video games. Although Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell They admitted not being experts in the culture gamingboth were impressed by the visual quality and narrative of the project, to the point of comparing it more to a “playable horror movie” than to a traditional video game.

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