An AI Created an Eerie Video for Soundgarden’s ‘Black Hole Sun’

The unique music video for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” — launched in 1994 and directed by Howard Greenhalgh — was a lot unusual. However, that didn’t cease an AI from producing a brand new clip with even creeper outcomes.

Created by Midjourney (an “independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species”), this system primarily turned every of the music’s lyrics into a wonderful consultant picture.

At first, that won’t sound too foreboding. However, contemplating that the monitor contains strains akin to “Call my name / Through the cream / And I’ll hear you scream again” and “In disguises no one knows / Hides the face / Lies the snake,” there was a whole lot of potential for the software program to provide one thing genuinely horrifying.

And that’s precisely what it did. Well, to be extra correct, the AI invented imagery that’s each totally nightmarish and awe-inspiringly dreamlike. For occasion, there are a number of flashes of wistfully ominous faces, in addition to attractive landscapes, apocalyptic skylines and Lovecraftian depictions of monsters.

From starting to finish, the footage gives breathtakingly vivid and diversified glimpses into heaven, hell and all the things in-between. (If we didn’t know any higher, we’d swear that a lot of it was made by 18th century painter/poet William Blake.)

Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the primary time this system visually reimagined traditional rock and steel songs, because it crafted equally charming clips for Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” and Blue Öyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” again in September 2022.

That mentioned, “Black Hole Sun” may be its magnum opus to this point, and you may view the whole collage beneath:

Midjourney AI’s Music Video for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”

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