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Portland dark-synthpop duo Human Hollow unveil the official music video for “Playing Dead”!

"Playing Dead" feverish, claustrophobic descent into the psyche of a survivor. The track originally appeared as a single earlier this year and now sits at the emotional core of the band’s newly released concept EP "ERASER", a five-song exploration of fear, guilt, violence, and the fragile humanity that persists inside horror.

The video mirrors the song’s haunted inner world. Stark, surreal, and disorienting, steeped in fog, shadows, and theatrical distortion. Entirely DIY, it extends the band’s commitment to fully self-produced storytelling across music, photography, and cinematography. Shot across two concentrated days and executed without a crew or helping hands, the band transformed their basement into a makeshift studio equipped with fog machines, red lights, plaster masks, green-screen backdrops, and plenty of cheap beer.

Starring Lucia Luna as The Sleeper and Austin McKee as Mop Man, the video expands the cinematic world Human Hollow has been crafting across their photography and production work.

Listen to ERASER: https://humanhollowmusic.bandcamp.com/album/eraser

Listen to “Playing Dead”: https://humanhollowmusic.bandcamp.com/album/playing-dead

Human Hollow is the creative collaboration of Austin McKee (he/him) and Lucia Luna (they/them). Blending darkwave, synthpop, and industrial atmosphere with ghostlike vocals and cinematic tension, the duo crafts intimate, immersive stories rooted in vulnerability and surrealism. Entirely self-produced, their work spans songwriting, production, photography, and film—shaped by a deep DIY ethos and a devotion to emotional honesty.

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