I wrote at length in last week’s column about the importance of representation in metal culture, and of how crucial it is for metalheads from marginalized communities to see themselves reflected onstage. This week has been a good one for that, and I’m feeling a little more hopeful about the state of our micronation than I have in awhile.

Outside of Audrey and Kate’s videos, metallic hardcore legends Racetraitor also dropped a video of their own, for the track “Cataclysm.” Taken off their upcoming album,

2042 (which you’ll be hearing about a lot more next week—stay tuned), the track pummels and roars, rattling basement walls and playing off familiar DIY imagery, but the band itself is nowhere to be found.

"With the 'Cataclysm' video we wanted to play off of the classic hardcore metal video of a band in the basement and use it to tell a pressing story. No one in Racetraitor is in the video," vocalist Mani Mostofi explained to No Echo. "Instead it is an underground band representing our community which for us is inclusive of women, immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, Asians, queer people, and white men who reject what the far right has to offer them. That is who makes up the band lineups in the video."