The new Throwdown video for “Holy Roller” makes its world debut Thursday on the Headbangers Ball Blog. The video was directed by Andy Reale and features snakes, spiders and a whole lotta screaming.
“Andy did an exceptional job of reading in between the lines of the lyrics and meaning of the song and translating it into visuals centered around a really imaginative storyline,” frontman Dave Peters told Headbangers Ball Blog. “‘Holy Roller,’ in particular, is a song that we don’t want taken for face value, so it was very important to us that the images for it were just as accurate as they were powerful. The song speaks to the nature of hypocrites and their proclivity toward punishing the rest of the world for their own skeletons and insecurities. It’s a hostile song with a lot of energy. Andy’s shots and editing lended itself real well to that.”
“Even though snakes are pretty cliche right now… they just look so brutal in the right video,” added drummer Ben Dussault. “P.S. No animals, insects or critters were harmed during this process, just band dudes.”
Watch “Holy Roller” here on Thursday, then catch it again on Saturday’s Headbangers Ball on MTV2.
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