The official music video for Korn’s new Diablo-inspired song, “Reward the Scars” has just been released, and it’s awesome.
The video includes footage of the band performing on a hellish set that features dark red lighting, rolling fog and rocky protrusions jutting from the floor. Possibly of more interest to Diablo fans, however, is that this footage is intercut with a full animated sequence featuring Mephisto at his most terrifying.
The animation begins with Mephisto in the form of Akarat, entering what looks like a cathedral. Soft choral music plays as he walks to the altar in front of a full congregation. The gathered people look at him with reverence, many even exultant as he turns and raises his hands skyward.
But then, like the legendary heavy drop from ‘Freak on a Leash,’ Jonathan yells “Go!” The band rips into a brutal riff and all hell breaks loose … literally.
Mephisto emerges from his Akarat shell, first as a torrent of darkness pours from his eyes and veins, then, as he bursts into full demon form.
The people in the cathedral stand stunned for a moment before, in the most vicious and gruesome fashion, Mephisto begins to kill.
As Mephisto advances on his final victim after much gory slaughter, the doors of the cathedral open and standing there, with light streaming in from behind them, are a Paladin and a Warlock.
They charge, and the song ends with an epic slow-motion shot of the two new heroes attacking Mephisto, accompanied by the repeating lyrics:
Fighting fast and fighting hard
Lose the past and reward the scars
Just in case players needed any more encouragement to start “fighting hard” in Lord of Hatred, dropping this incredible music video six hours before the expansion goes live might just do the trick.
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