German doom-trap trailblazer Mimi Barks has shared another video from her 5/5‑rated DEADGIRL mixtape, for the seething 10.steps.back. In keeping with the song’s lyrics – ‘Watch them from a distance and keep the distance / Fighting snakes with snakes’ – the clip finds her surrounded by snakes, shot at the same time as the photos for her debut Kerrang! cover in December. The track forms part of DEADGIRL’s arc of sinking to the bottom, and from there being cleansed and reborn as the person you want to be. “The whole album is a full cycle around the idea of the DEADGIRL,” Mimi explained to us on the album’s release. “The first songs are heavier, more aggressive, and kind of filled with delusional aloofness and narcissism, to self-hatred, or hate for the world, but also c...