Tunic Band 2023

"My Body, My Blood": Get Face to Face with Tunic's Eccentric Noise Rock (Video Premiere)


Tunic’s third album Wrong Dream is a noise rock tour-de-force, packed neatly into 32 minutes, which promises to be their most engaging to date. It evokes sounds most often associated with AmRep records throughout the 1990s, at times touching punk song structures, complete with stop and go sections that could have been parts of Fugazi’s more experimental work. While we wait for the entire thing to drop, these wacky Winnipeggers have been busy dropping video singles–up to this point we have seen “Whispering,” and now we can introduce you to the bizarre creature that is “My Body, My Blood”.

The video is a unique beast featuring sculpted masks with unique personalities taking over their wearers, created by sculptor/director Torin Langen. The video has a wonderfully weird retro vibe flowing throughout it; as a visual aid, it matches their audio aesthetic to a T.

Tunic’s David Schellenberg had this to say regarding the song:

This song is about mentally abusive relationships I was in, some romantic, some platonic. In one case I used to pretend I was asleep when this person came home so I didn’t have to interact with them. I laid quietly in the dark to avoid them. In another I was verbally abused by a former business partner and it didn’t matter that we were supposed to be equals. He talked down to me and broke my spirit. No matter who I was to him, I was on the bottom.

Wrong Dream releases on April 28th on Artoffact Records.