Behind The Scenes: Ghost Frog - Shadow Club (Official Video)

Fore! Shot straight down the fairway like a ball out of hell, here comes the latest conspiracy and secret society-themed music video by Portland, OR’s paranormal space punk veterans Ghost Frog for the conspiracy-single “Shadow Club” off their soon-to-be-released new album, “Galactic Mini Golf.”

 

Quinn Schwartz, The band’s singer, who wrote the video and also stars in it, recruited local filmmaker Joel Gaddis, his coworker at the last remaining video store in Portland, Movie Madness, to handle cinematography and editing for the project. The video also stars the other members of the band as the titular “Shadow Club”: guitarist Karl Beheim, bassist Archie Heald, and drummer Vincent Lirocchi.

In it, we find an eccentric conspiracy researcher who is obsessed with a certain group of rich and powerful men who he thinks are part of a nefarious, secretive organization called the “Shadow Club.” This character is an amalgamation of various media personalities including Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Steven Seagal, and especially Fred Durst, who the band share a special affinity for as many of them are also in a Limp Bizkit tribute band together.

 

Convinced that the Club is up to no good, this intensely curious researcher sets out to get to the bottom of what they’re hiding, which leads him down a dangerous, winding path full of strange and unexpected revelations. The video was inspired by the filmmakers' fascination with paranoid thriller films like “Conspiracy Theory,” “The Parallax View,” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” combined with their love of trashy ’80s and 90’s action movies (the basic premise was Chuck Norris vs. the Illuminati). They even filmed part of the video outside of the infamous Oculus Anubis property in Damascus, Oregon, a mysterious local site that has long been a hotbed for conspiracy theories and urban legends.

 

Are you ready to learn the terrifying truth about the “Shadow Club”?