Johnny Wore Black, featuring frontman / stuntman-by-day Jay and guest musician / co-writer David Ellefson (Megadeth), released a new full-length, Walking Underwater Pt. 2, last November via Dead Cherry.

Today marks the release of the group’s new music video for the track “Firefly” from the album. The video features action-packed cartoon horror animation, created by up-and-coming animator Paul Solomons, the mastermind behind Johnny Wore Black’s 2012 “Noise” music video. The “Firefly” music video actually serves as a prequel to the “Noise” music video, which features many of the same characters.

Johnny Wore Black shares insight about the story behind the track: “The song is about building hope on unsteady ground. How the people around you watch you fall and have opinions on what you should do, but often don’t actually verbalize it or care to help, so you only have yourself in the end to rely on.”

He continues, “Paul, the animator, and I wanted to tell the story a different way, through the eyes of The Firefly, and the original vibe was based around the Frankenstein story and also building on the characters used in our video for “Noise”. It’s a cartoon about people, about life and about love and loss – it’s basically a story about life after death… or is that life after love?”

 

 

Walking Underwater Pt. 2 tracklisting:

"Firefly" (co-written by David Ellefson)

"A Cut Above" (co-written by David Ellefson)

"Comfy Slippers" (featuring David Ellefson on bass)

"Fallen Angel" (featuring David Ellefson on bass)

"Gift of Desperation" (co-written by David Ellefson)

"I Do Dissolve" (featuring David Ellefson on bass)

"Noise" (featuring Pete Mathers)

"Shine On" (featuring Croatian singer Sara Renar)

"Whose Children" (featuring David Ellefson on bass)

"Winter in July" (Cover featuring vocals by Loretta Heywood, plus Loretta Heywood/Bomb The Bass collaboration)

"Firefly" playthrough video:

Walking Underwater Pt. 2 is produced by Jay himself, with several tracks mixed by Grammy-award winning producer David Bottrill (Tool, Stone Sour).

 

 

Johnny Wore Black is:

Johnny Wore Black - vocals

Pete Mathers - guitar

Simon Hutchby - drums

David Ellefson - bass

James Coppolaro - guitar

Loretta Heywood - vocals ("Winter In July")

Sara Renar - vocals ("Shine On")