Industrial duo Skynd have linked up with Korn's Jonathan Davis for "Gary Heidnik," a haunting new song set to appear on the band's upcoming EP Chapter 1. It arrives alongside a disturbing music video that combines trippy performance shots with graphic depictions of kidnapped and tortured women — one of whom has her hand stuck in a blender. It goes without saying that this one's NSFW.
The scariest part? It's all based on a true story. Syknd named the song after Gary Michael Heidnik, a serial killer who brutalized six women in his Philadelphia home in the late Eighties. Davis, an avowed true-crime buff, was eager to jump on the track. For those fans unfamiliar with the story, the Korn frontman has kindly provided the following synopsis via Metal Hammer.
"[Gary Heidnik] just had a bunch of sex slaves," Davis explains. ""Buffalo Bill [from Silence of the Lambs] was based off of him. Gary had a pit in the ground and a bunch of girls as sex slaves, and when he thought they were trying to escape, he busted their eardrums with a screwdriver so they couldn't hear. And he kept torturing them and fucking them and torturing them, and then one girl died so he didn't know what to do, so that's when he took her and ground her up, and started feeding the other girl to the other girls. It's such a crazy story."
"You can watch videos of the one girl that escaped," he adds. "I watched her video, and that's where I got my line, 'The food looks good enough, good enough to eat,' because he was feeding them dog food laced with their friends. So that's some dark shit."
Skynd's Chapter 1 EP hits shelves August 15th. You can pre-order it here.
