What is up with the new video for Gwen Stacy’s “The Fear in Your Eyes”? It manages to come across as both inspid and overzealous, which is strange considering that the song has no explicit Christian content. Of course, the members of Gwen Stacy self-identify as Christians and almost every other song on the group’s debut — like “Jeremiah Buys a Field,” which tells us that Jesus died for our sins — sports an evangelical tone. I think there’s some sort of message intended by the repetitive close-ups of a gleaming, sun-kissed crucifix, but the treatment is really confusing: good footage of an average hardcore act interspersed with dull shots of a bunch of toothless scene kids scrambling up the Indiana Dunes and beating the shit out of each other. Yo, Wes Craven’s version was much better.

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