Blackwater Holylight have released an official video for “Spades”, a song from their album “Not Here Not Gone”. The Portland, Oregon trio shared the clip on 30 October through Suicide Squeeze Records, with the album available on LP and CD. The band will begin a run of live dates in November, including three shows supporting Neurosis.
The video follows an underground poker heist that goes wrong. Its cast includes Petra Webb, Avery Merrifield, Camille Getz, Chris Daker, Bobby Heredia, Alexandra Bryson, Monki Diamond, Riley Stearns, Peter Troy and Gino Roberson. Sunny Faris wrote the video, served as its creative director and co-directed it with Jeremy Colegrove, while Duncan Robertson co-directed and shot it. Getz also edited the film.
This video was all for fun! We wanted to make a silly video with our friends and family to finish the year off with a project that felt freeing and creative for everyone. We hope you enjoy Spades - a journey through an underground poker heist gone wrong!
- Sunny Faris, bassist and vocalist
Sunny Faris has led since 2016
Sunny Faris plays bass and sings in Blackwater Holylight, and has been part of the band since its formation in 2016. Guitarist Mikayla Mayhew joined in 2018, followed by drummer Eliese Dorsay in 2019. Mayhew also plays with Cig Corpse, Dirty Princess and Rapid Response, while Dorsay is a member of Rapid Response and Urchin.
Blackwater Holylight wrote “Spades” together at Sonic Ranch Studios. Sonny DiPerri and the band produced the recording, with mixing completed at Octopus Beak and mastering by Howie Weinberg. The track is sixth on “Not Here Not Gone”, whose other songs include “How Will You Feel”, “Involuntary Haze”, “Bodies”, “Heavy, Why?”, “Giraffe”, “Void To Be”, “Fade”, “Mourning After” and “Poppyfields”.
Four shows through March
The band will play Revolution Hall in Portland on 28 November and Showbox SODO in Seattle on 29 November. Both shows support Neurosis. The same run continues at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on 2 January, also with Neurosis, before Blackwater Holylight appear at the Mojave Experience Festival in Joshua Tree from 19 to 21 March.
Blackwater Holylight formed in Portland in 2016 and have released the albums “Blackwater Holylight”, “Veils of Winter”, “Silence/Motion” and “Not Here Not Gone”, as well as the 2025 EP “If You Only Knew” and the split “Riding Easy at Levitation”.
