San Diego punk band Wavves is on the verge of making big waves in the music scene with its latest studio album V, set for release October 2, and now we have the latest track and music video from the band for the song "Way Too Much." The song is a ferocious fast pace song that combines the degenerate lyrics of the genre's best outcasts with the catchy hooks of 2000's pop punk and the video pulls us into the brutality of Underground Empire Wrestling.
"Sorry if I woke you up this morning it was early, the sun was coming up and I've been drinking too much," frontman Nathan Williams sings on the opening line.
Williams is a big fan of wrestling as he hosts RAW and SmackDown parties throughout the week according to an interview with Rolling Stone, where the video premiered. But, when he saw Underground Empire Wrestling, he found the inspiration for the video.
I've been a fan for 20 years now - but the UEW event, it was crazy," he said. "They had a baseball bat with duct tape wrapped around it, and thumbtacks stuck in there and they were hitting each other in the head with it."
Jack Wagner directed the video by going to the Underground Empire Wrestling event Hysteria, where the video's stars Max X and JD Horror fought in a "deathmatch" for the Heavy Weight Championship. It's a brutal event by the look of it as chairs are thrown on opponents or visa versa, blood drips from the wrestler's faces and at one point, a guy gets flung into a table of barbed wire. Williams was there to catch all the action and geek out over the wrestlers he loves so much.
Watch the video below for a tastes of the fighting and visit the band's website for more information on pre-orders and yet to be announced tour dates.
