Unsurprisingly, they are the most metal band to ever exist and their music videos are the most brutal to ever be created. Is the best metal band in the world one that doesn’t really exist? Created for Adult Swim’s Metalopalypse animated series, Dethlok are a fictional death metal band featuring members with names like William Murderface, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, and Nathan Explosion. Mastodon’s Seabeast is another metal vid that uses shadow puppets for uneasy storytelling. Who knew shadow puppets could be cool? Storm Corrosion, a one-time project between the prog-metal titans Steve Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Mikael Åkerfeldt, was a collaboration fans had been clamouring for, and 2012’s Drag Ropes is a nine minute folk horror story of a man forced to execute the love of his life and his vengeance in the aftermath.Ĭreated by Owl House Studios, the story is told using eerie shadow puppets, and was filmed in a garage, all to the soundtrack of mimimalist progressive rock. The lead single off their Resolution album was developed by Pennsylvania design studio MoreFrames, and portrays animated post-apocalyptic dystopia, complete with deadly militia and a man on the run. No stranger to po-faced videos, LOG also aren’t afraid to inject a bit of humour into their videos Ruin and Redneck see the band crash an old people’s home and kid’s birthday party respectively to thrash out a gig.Ģ012’s Ghost Walking, however, saw the band take a more creative step than usual. Richmond, Virgina’s Lamb Of God have created some seriously heavy music over the last 15+ years and grabbed a Grammy for their efforts. Rao has previously said that the video’s narrative revolves around birth within an alternate world, where the human body is intertwined with plants and visually seeks to combine Hindu imagery with the aesthetics of Butoh performance. It’s far from the only video with haunting painted figures – see Baroness’s A Horse Called Golgotha or pretty much anything by Polish death metallers Behemoth – but Rao does it better, and without the help of record label backing. Ganesh Rao is a US-based artist hailing from India, and his 2011 video for Empyrean saw otherworldly beings grow from plants and play a crushing soundtrack on a warped sitar. Ganesh Rao - Empyreanĭjent was the hot new trend in metal at the turn of the decade, and with a new style of music came a chance for a new metal aesthetic. You can check out my playlist of all the videos here. Usual disclaimers apply these are my choices, they are probably wrong, I’m sorry I forgot that one video by that one band you love, don’t me. Incensed by Giacomo’s blatant disregard for all this rock and metal in his end-of-decade list of the best music videos, I’ve turned a series of rambling Slack abusage into a visual delight of metallic proportions in no particular order. Metal is, after all, a very visual genre full of graphic images. However, quality videos do occasionally get made, and actually enhance the listening experience rather than detract from it. The ones that do try often just end up being a bit lame. Or worse, they’re just lyric videos panning over the album art for five minutes. If it’s not studio footage, it’s some overly-serious angry men playing in a dark room/cave/forest/warehouse. If it’s not live footage, it’s studio footage. Hard rock and heavy metal music videos are usually lame.
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