Death Grips Announce Bottomless Pit

Photo by Samantha Marble

Death Grips have announced that they will follow up Jenny Death with another new album called Bottomless Pit. The announcement is accompanied by footage of the late Karen Black, who reads dialogue written by Zach Hill. Watch it below.

The video was shot in 2013—the year Black died. Black was an actress who starred in several iconic films (Easy Rider, Nashville, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Family Plot). She was also a singer, and late in life, she collaborated with Cass McCombs. 

Here’s the video’s description:

Iconic 70’s film star Karen Black passed away in August 2013. In February of that year, Karyn Rachtman introduced Ms. Black to Zach Hill. The two immediately hit it off. Zach had written a part for Karen for a film he was developing and gave her the pages for her scenes. Though she didn’t know how the scenes would fit into the final film, she readily agreed to read her character’s dialog on camera for Zach. 

Watch Death Grips play “Guillotine” at Pitchfork’s 2012 CMJ show:

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