Black Is the Soul

[5] This was confirmed three days later, when the music video was released and was announced as the third single from the band's twelfth album, The Serenity of Suffering.

[6][7] The video features alternating footage of the band performing and the faceless woman, wading through water and searching around numerous lifeless mannequins.

[9] Lyrically, frontman Jonathan Davis stated that the band is "being pulled away from the right path...and trying to navigate those conflicting emotions", something he said the music video was also trying to metaphorically illustrate.

[10] The song was one of the first written for The Serenity of Suffering album, initially conceived under the working title of "Mary Ellen Thrash", after guitarist's Brian Welch's mother Mary Ellen due to it being written on her birthday.

[10][11] The song was described as having the heavy, de-tuned guitar sound commonly found in nu metal.