Synopsis
Senser's performance is presented as a confrontational audiovisual barrage rather than a linear story. The band appear amid stark, rapidly edited images that suggest urban alienation, social violence, addiction, surveillance, and mass-media overload. Faces, bodies, machines, and crowded city spaces flash past in a deliberately disorienting stream, matching the song's attack on consumerism and collective anxiety. The result is less a narrative than a feverish visual counterpart to a society portrayed as trapped in an escalating, technologically mediated panic.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Age Of Panic" was released as a single in 1994 and reached number 52 on the UK Singles Chart.
- The song appears on Senser's debut album, "Stacked Up", which entered the UK Albums Chart at number 4 in May 1994.
- The video was part of the band's early breakthrough period, when Senser were combining rap, metal, industrial electronics, scratching, and rave influences in a way that stood apart from the mainstream rock scene.
- The original single was supported by alternate versions, including "The Sick Man Remix" and a live recording of "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun", Senser's version of the Beastie Boys track.
- A separate "Git-O-Rama Mix" video was produced for the 2014 "Stacked Up XX" reissue. That anniversary edition included remastered album tracks, remixes, demos, and previously unreleased material.
- The clip's aggressive editing and unsettling imagery fit the song's wider theme: modern life as a cycle of panic, dependency, violence, and technological alienation.