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Djentrified Confronts the Cost of Desensitization with “Welcome to the Abyss”
The video pairs visceral performance with real-world tragedy in a plea for empathy and awareness.
November 7, 2025 (Santa Barbara, CA) // Southern California’s Djentrified, the solo project of Cousteau Bix Christopher, has released the official music video for “Welcome to the Abyss.” Premiering on Cool Happy Genius Heroes, it’s an intense piece that deeply explores violence and questions what it means to have empathy in a chaotic, corrupt and desensitized world.
The video features Cousteau giving an impassioned, fury-filled performance in a dimly lit “abyss.” His moves show both anger and despair interspliced with real-life news clips of some of modern history’s most pivotal and traumatic headlines. 9/11, George Floyd’s murder, Rodney King being beaten by police, the January 6th riot, and Sandy Hook each have their moment in the song with countless other scenes taken from riots, school shootings, and war zones. By confronting these images directly, “Welcome to the Abyss” rejects numbness and forces its audience to reckon with the moral cost of looking away.
Read the full press release here: https://share.sender.net/campaigns/dzPD/djentrified-confronts-the-cost-of-desensitization-with-welcome-to-the-abyss
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