Thrice Release Thought-Provoking Video For Only Us

Thrice have shared a video for the track, Only Us, taken from their latest album Palms.

For the video, the band took inspiration from the Robbers Cave psychology experiment which took place in 1953.

Researchers in Middle Grove, New York split a group of boys into two camps and carried out a series of "frustration exercises" in the hope they would turn against each other, echoing William Golding's 1954 book Lord Of The Flies.

Spoiler: they didn't.

"Only Us came from thinking about how we’re so easily divided into ‘us’ and ‘them,’ when really we have an inherent ability to care for those in our group, and the parameters for who falls into that group are extremely flexible,” says frontman Dustin Kensrue. “It’s about how the things that we think separate us are actually inconsequential, and if we could broaden the idea of ‘us’ to include all people, it would help us to build a more loving and civil society.”

Watch the clip below.

The band will be special guests on Bring Me The Horizon's tour of North America early next year. Catch them at the following venues:

January

23 Nashville, TN – Municipal Auditorium
25 Orlando, FL – CFE Arena
26 Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
28 Fairfax, VA – EagleBank Arena
29 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
30 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom

February

01 Boston, MA – Tsongas Center
02 Montreal, QC – Place Bell
04 Detroit, MI – Fillmore Detroit
05 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
06 Minneapolis, MN – Armory
07 Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
09 Houston, TX – Revention Music Center
11 Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium
13 Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
15 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
16 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint

Palms is out now through Epitaph.