Taylor after he looks himself in the mirror, screams and looks around anxiously before he falls backwards out Paul Gray's rooms door and lands into a fifth room, which is occupied by percussionist Shawn Crahan. Gray then gets aggravated, looks up and hits the mirror viciously, and Taylor is seen looking at a broken mirror and a reflection of himself. Taylor then focuses on Gray and makes a waving gesture to seemingly establish if it's a mirror.
Taylor is seen walking through the room while Gray seemingly follows him. This room is filled with mirrors, similar to that of a house of mirrors. Jones then lights a smoke flare, which blinds Taylor, and is seen holding it in his right hand, but he finds the door then leaves the room and enters a fourth which is occupied by bassist Paul Gray. Taylor walks around Jones and inspects his mask and is seen touching the nails protruding from it. When Taylor enters the room the video is solarized and remains so throughout the time Taylor's in there. Taylor then leaves the room and enters a third which is occupied by sampler Craig Jones who is standing straight upright and does not move throughout the scene. Taylor walks around the scene looking at them without interacting with Jordison or the females, there is a moment in which Jordison is looking in a mirror and Taylor suddenly appears. The room features many photographs of Jordison on the walls and he is sitting in a chair surrounded by several females. However, Taylor eventually leaves the room and enters a second which is occupied by drummer Joey Jordison, with tree branches instead of fingers and a crown of thorns on his head. Wilson is then seen physically trying to stop Taylor from leaving the room by grabbing his pant leg. Taylor opens the drapes to attempt to look out of the window but can only see dirt. The first room, which is a dark room with faint red lighting shows turntablist Sid Wilson who is seen barefoot, climbing all over the walls and is covered in dust and cobwebs. He then seemingly falls through the ground and into a room below dressed in his Slipknot mask and cover-alls. He walks from an urbanized area (in the extended version, he is seen walking through a park, before approaching a car and smashing its headlights) in to a more rural area in the fields and begin to dig at the ground. The video starts off with Taylor seen without his mask and dressed in casual clothes carrying a shovel and smoking a cigarette. Crahan's original idea was to have several rooms, he shared his idea with to vocalist Corey Taylor who decided what each room would be. Crahan calls the music video a "short film" and said that it was a "very" expensive video to make. The concept of the music video was percussionist Shawn Crahan's idea. The video came out on MTV's Headbangers Ball on Octoas part of the Headbangers Ball 20th anniversary special programming.
On September 30, 2008, the band's record label Roadrunner Records released a 15 second teaser video on YouTube which showed vocalist Corey Taylor in what looks like to be a grave in heavy rainfall. The music video for "Dead Memories" was directed by P.