Deathcore outfit Signs Of The Swarm have officially brought their take on Rob Zombie’s late-’90s classic “Dragula” to the screen, with a wild new music video featuring appearances from Bam Margera, Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos, August Burns Red’s Matt Greiner, and several other familiar faces.
The band first began performing their rendition of “Dragula” live during the summer of 2025 before eventually taking the cover into the studio. The accompanying video was directed by Eric DiCarlo, whose previous work includes projects with Crown Magnetar and The Browning.
Filmed in June, the video features Margera, Ramos, Greiner, Dying Fetus’ Trey Williams, 156/Silence’s Jack Murray, The Last Ten Seconds Of Life’s Tyler Beam, Galactic Empire’s Kevin Corkran, and others.
Signs Of The Swarm drummer Bobby Crow explained that the group had considered a number of songs before settling on “Dragula.”
“We’ve been trying to find the right song to cover and put a SOTS spin on for years. We tossed up so many ideas, from The Prodigy, to Slayer, to Static-X. We used to spin ‘Hellbilly Deluxe’ on repeat to keep us awake on long tour drives, and we love tracks like ‘Living Dead Girl,’ ‘Superbeast’ and ‘Spookshow Baby,’ but one day we just started mouthing out ideas for what a SOTS version of ‘Dragula’ would sound like. Immediately, we were like, ‘DAMN! This is The ONE!’”
Crow added that the band worked with producer and engineer Josh Schroeder to transform the song into their own style.
“We took it to our producer and engineer Josh Schroeder, who helped us come up with some beat loops, we tuned the guitars way down to drop fuck, and it all came together within a day.”
The video proved to be an equally spontaneous project.
According to vocalist David Simonich, the band originally intended to closely recreate the iconic music video for the original song. However, the inability to find the right vehicle ultimately sent the concept in a completely different direction.
“This video kind of spiraled out of control in the best way possible. We originally wanted to do a one-to-one recreation of the original video, but we couldn’t find the right car. We were tossing ideas around looking at rentals, and a Polaris Slingshot came up as a polar opposite to what we were going for.”
Simonich said the idea eventually became about giving the visual the same modernized treatment as their musical adaptation.
“Something clicked for us, and we thought that since we were trying to modernize the song, why not do the same for the video? We usually take our videos pretty seriously, so this gave us permission to let our freak flag fly.”
After Signs Of The Swarm began inviting friends and fellow musicians from the Eastern Pennsylvania area, the guest list quickly grew.
“We started inviting any homies around the Eastern Pennsylvania area we’d be shooting, and it snowballed from there.”
Having recently toured with Lorna Shore, the band brought in Will Ramos, while longtime friends Jack Murray of 156/Silence and Tyler Beam of The Last Ten Seconds Of Life were also recruited for the shoot.
Trey Williams of Dying Fetus appeared in a robot suit, while Matt Greiner of August Burns Red joined the drum-focused insanity alongside Bobby Crow and Kevin Corkran of Galactic Empire.
The biggest surprise came when the band reached out to Bam Margera, who happened to be returning to the West Chester area at the time.
“And the absolute biggest shot in the dark was asking our friend Vicente, who has shot videos for us and Bam Margera, if he thought the skater would be down to drop in. As luck would have it, he was coming back to the West Chester area he made famous for the first time in months and made it happen!”
Margera also brought fellow professional skater Dalton Dern, who contributed a particularly chaotic stunt to the video.
“He brought along his friend and fellow pro-skater Dalton Dern, who suggested an ollie off a roof of a room in the warehouse we shot in. And that’s not even everyone! It was the icing on the cake of a day summed up by the phrase, ‘Sure, why not?’ to great result!”
The resulting “Dragula” video can be viewed below.
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