"Chemicals" is the debut single from Love and Death ("Paralyzed" was released under the name 'Brian "Head" Welch').
[2] Welch states that the composition refers to battling depression, chemical warfare and the cage that is drug addiction.
[6] The video begins with lead vocalist Brian Welch running from a man in a black hooded sweatshirt wearing a grotesque mask.
Dan Johnson is subsequently chased, tipping a trash container down to try to trip the masked man.
The members are then seen ripping holes in the wall of the graffiti covered room in which they played music during the video, allegorical of freeing themselves from the figurative cages surrounding them.