Hell's Comin' With Me — Jonathan & Merkabah vs Walter & Lucifer | made with ngram

About the video

This video was created by ngram to tell the story of 'Hell's Comin' With Me,' a narrative ballad centered on a drifter named Jonathan returning to a town that has forgotten him, and his reckoning with Walter and a figure named Lucifer. Using HTML/CSS motion graphics in a 16:9 widescreen format, ngram built a sequence of scenes that follow the song's arc: a cold open introduces the drifter, who then makes his way back into town where the residents fail to recognize him. The story escalates as the town burns, fire gives way to smoke, and a preacher appears amid the chaos. The townspeople fall to their knees as Jonathan raises his fist, a gesture framed as the righteous hand of God confronting the devil they forgot. The closing scenes deliver the song's central warning and refrain, building to the title line that gives the piece its name. Each scene title in the animation corresponds to a lyrical beat, giving the video a verse-by-verse structure typical of a narrative music video. The visual style leans into motion graphics rather than live footage, using animated transitions to carry the western and biblical imagery embedded in the lyrics from cold open through to the final 'with me' line.