Last year, The Halluci Nation, like a long-presumed dead wrestler emerging during a king of the ring match to smash a folding chair over the head of a crooked referee, made their return with the surprise release of Path Of The Heel, the first of a two-part wrestling-inspired project entitled The Road To Halluci Mania. KEXP calls it “enthralling,” while Grimy Goods describes it as “ferociously magnetic.”

Today, a music video for the “chaotic and emphatic” (Complex) track “Tree Of Woe” enters the ring. Damian Abraham, of Fucked Up, introduces the high-geared song and brings to life the chronicles within Path Of The Heel — perhaps getting a little too caught up in the kayfabe.

Watch the music video, produced and directed by COMBO BRAVO, for “Tree Of Woe” here.

On The Road To Halluci Mania, Halluci Nation set their “completely visceral and totally immediate” (CLASH) electronic soundclashes to a unique narrative that would be the envy of Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle: In the reality of the project, The Halluci Nation are Tag Team Wrestling Champions — quintessential good guys who have worked tirelessly to achieve greatness while being an authentic representation of who they are and where they came from.

Path Of The Heel, however, is told from the perspective of their enemies: The Alie Nation, who are a faction led by a character played by Abraham (who, as the project attests, cuts a promo like a true pro). The character has become delusional and obsessed with taking down The Halluci Nation, and recruits his own Tag Team to do so at an event called Halluci Mania. Throughout, The Halluci Nation explore the harder edges of their sound, incorporating drum n bass breaks and dubstep drops to dizzying effect.

Listen to Path Of The Heel — which also features the acclaimed Powwow singing group Northern Cree — here.

Path Of The Heel will be followed by a Part 2 this year, as well as a string of tour dates throughout March with more shows to be announced soon.

Earlier last year, The Halluci Nation — the all First Nation (Mohawk and Cayuga) crew from Ottawa comprised of Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill — toured with Fucked Up across 10 Canadian dates that all opened with “a special live wrestling event.” They also released a collaborative single with Fucked Up, which Consequence described as “one hell of a cover of M.D.C.’s ‘John Wayne Was A Nazi.’” Listen to “John Wayne Was A Nazi” here.