An AI Created an Eerie Video for Soundgarden’s ‘Black Gap Solar’

The unique music video for Soundgarden’s “Black Gap Solar” — launched in 1994 and directed by Howard Greenhalgh — was loads unusual. Nonetheless, that didn’t cease an AI from producing a brand new clip with even creeper outcomes.

Created by Midjourney (an “impartial analysis lab exploring new mediums of thought and increasing the imaginative powers of the human species”), this system primarily turned every of the tune’s lyrics into a fantastic consultant picture.

At first, that won’t sound too foreboding. Nonetheless, contemplating that the observe contains strains comparable to “Name my title / By the cream / And I’ll hear you scream once more” and “In disguises nobody is aware of / Hides the face / Lies the snake,” there was quite a lot of potential for the software program to provide one thing genuinely horrifying.

And that’s precisely what it did. Properly, to be extra correct, the AI invented imagery that’s each completely nightmarish and awe-inspiringly dreamlike. As an illustration, there are a number of flashes of wistfully ominous faces, in addition to attractive landscapes, apocalyptic skylines and Lovecraftian depictions of monsters.

From starting to finish, the footage supplies breathtakingly vivid and diversified glimpses into heaven, hell and every little thing in-between. (If we didn’t know any higher, we’d swear that a lot of it was made by 18th century painter/poet William Blake.)

Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the primary time this system visually reimagined traditional rock and metallic songs, because it crafted equally charming clips for Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” and Blue Öyster Cult’s “Don’t Concern the Reaper” again in September 2022.

That stated, “Black Gap Solar” is likely to be its magnum opus up to now, and you may view all the collage beneath:

Midjourney AI’s Music Video for Soundgarden’s “Black Gap Solar”

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