This one's a couple years old, but it's so damn funny we just had to dig it up again. The band is Sin Destroyers, a mock Christian metal outfit that created "Gifts to the World," a part-cartoon, part performance video which features "South Park"-style animation and lines like "He is Christ, the Lord/ and he brings gifts to the world/...He died for your sins so you can get presents/ He is Jesus Christ/ He's got a list and he's checking it twice."
Now, we're not experts or anything, but we think there's kind of a major flaw with the logic of the song. The Sin Destroyers seem to confuse Santa Claus with Jesus Christ -- which is pretty hard to do since Santa's all obese and jolly and s--t, and Christ -- judging by all those old Dutch paintings -- looks kinda like an emaciated street corner junkie.
Then again, who ever said humor has to be based in fact. And for that matter, who ever said religion has to be based in fact. Kiss your crucifix -- whichever direction it may point -- and click "more" to watch Sin Destroyers deliver "Gifts to the World." Read more...
Okay, so maybe Chiodos are really more screamo than metal, but they've got some scorching guitar riffs and throat-shredding vocals between those delicate piano and vulnerable singing parts. And half of the title of their new video, "The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge..." is pretty metal. It's the extraneous second-half we could live without, "...Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)." Maybe the name is analogous to the dichotomy of the band's music. Maybe we're just trying too hard.
Anyway, "The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable. (The Final Battle)" is a performance-based video that was shot this fall on the rooftop of a club in the band's hometown of Flint, Michigan. Apparently hometown hero Michael Moore was off shooting another installment of "Why I Hate President Bush" and was unable to direct, so the honors went to Darren Doane (Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, Deftones). The clip is the second video from Chiodos' critically acclaimed second album Bone Palace Ballet. Click "more" to see it all. Read more...
While Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has probably spent his holiday time hitting on married women and flirting with underage girls, guitarist Joe Perry his been a little more productive, recording a version of "Run Rudolph Run" and shooting a video for the song.
"This is my favorite Christmas song and one I've always wanted to cover," Perry told Aeroforceone.com. "I was in the studio working anyway and when I couldn't find my copy of the CD, I decided to just give the song a try. Four hours later, we had the song and decided to give it away. I hope everyone enjoys it and this makes the holidays a little happier this year."
Perry recorded the track at his Boston home studio with Boneyard studio engineer Paul Santo on drums and piano. Perry says he would like to re-release the track next year for charity. Also next year, look for Aersomith's return to the rockin' road.
Click more to hear and watch Perry's tribute to Chuck Berry and Keith Richards' version of "Run Rudolph Run." But check it out before the end of the year when it'll be gone like Santa. Read more...
The Mick Garris-produced TV anthology "Fear Itself" has returned from the grave, and along with it the show's introduction music written by ex-System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian. The series was originally created for NBC and aired last summer, but it received poor ratings and was axed prematurely.
Recently, the cable video-on-demand channel and online channel Fearnet started airing the show, which is sort of a tamed down version of the Garris-produced Showtime series "Masters of Horror." Hopefully, this should provide a bit of Christmas cash for Tankian, whose music for the show can be heard in the opening credits video below. Read more...
The only thing we know about Tasmania is what we've learned about the Tasmanian Devil in Bugs Bunny cartoons. But if Hobart, Tasmania technical death metal band Psycroptic is any sort of reflection of the region, we know where we're spending out winter vacation.
Psycroptic are unerringly precise, alarmingly infectious and super frickin' heavy. And they make pretty awesome videos, too. We especially like the way the images quiver with the piledriver vibrations of the double bass drums. Click more to "Initiate" yourself. Read more...
Norwegian black metal stars Dimmu Borgir recently stopped off at the Fuel TV studios to tape "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" and "Serpentine Offering" for "The Daily Habit." Both aired on November 25 and are now available online. Click "more" to see for yourself. And don't miss our podcast interview with guitarist Silenoz right here. Read more...
One single shot of James Hetfield, which is more than you'll see in Metallica's new video
Seeing that Metallica's newest album Death Magnetic is, in many ways, a throwback to the ferocity and complexity of 1988's ...And Justice For All, it's not surprising that the band has returned to the narrative silent film style of their first video, "One," for the nine-minute "All Nightmare Long." However, the band may have delved too far into the concept and strayed too far from the music.
The story line is pretty cool, combining elements of horror movies like "Reanimator" and "Night of the Living Dead" and cold war films such as "Fail-Safe." The plot involves some alien or meteor explosion in Russia that reveals a new scorpion-like life form whose DNA is capable of reviving dead tissue. Following years of research, the entity is used in a lethal biological weapon, which is dropped from a hot air balloon on the U.S. in an effort to contain America's use of nukes on the Soviets. The contagion quickly spreads and zombies spread across the nation, consuming all in their path.
The biggest problem with "All Nightmare Long" is it doesn't feature any shots of the Metallica -- not even as zombies. Also, the story doesn't really parallel the lyrics of the song. So, in the end it's kind of like blaring Death Magnetic while watching a creepy old movie on the Sci-Fi Channel. That the video is nine minutes long only adds to the dissociative process. Damn fine song, though. Click "more" to watch the mini-movie and let the carnage begin. Read more...
Maybe in order to prevent Gene Simmons from suing them, the makers of the cartoon series "Detroit Metal City" had to offer him a role in their blockbuster (at least in Japan) film. And while Simmons isn't nearly as good in Toshio Lee's "Detroit Metal City" in the role of Jack II Dark as he was as Dr. Charles Luther in 1984's "Runaway," the rest of the cast and the bizarro story make this import film an entertaining mindf--k -- a searing amalgam of Slipknot live, "Metalocalypse" and "Lost in Translation." The film revolves around a young musician, Soichi Negishi, who moves to Tokyo to become a cheesy pop star, but becomes embroiled in the turbulent world of death metal when he becomes the frontman of the the group Detroit Metal City.
The more he tries to escape DMC, the more popular they grow. With a blaring heavy metal soundtrack that's not half bad, the story becomes an internal battle between decadence, depravity and mega-cash vs. morality, ethics and sunny optimism. The movie was spun off the popular Japanese cartoon, which in turn was inspired by a comic book (manga) by Kiminori Wakasugi. click "more" to read the manga and watch the first episode of the cartoon. Read more...
On November 4, Middletown, New York prog-metal band Symphony X released a 5.1 version of their critically acclaimed 2007 album Paradise Lost, which features the whole album plus a bonus DVD with the 5.1 mix plus the videos for "Serpents Kiss" and "Set The World On Fire." To promote the release, the band has posted a gyget featuring the songs "Domination" and "Paradise Lost" as well as the aforementioned videos, band blog and tour schedule. Click "more" to grab it. Read more...
Metallica's Death Magnetic might well be the heavy metal success story of 2008, but in our book, one of the best metal albums released this year is Opeth's epic Watershed. our friends at MetalInjection.com recently sat down with frontman Åkerfeldt Mikael and Frederick Akesson to talk about why Watershed is mellower than their last disc Ghost Reveries, how to use female vocals without sounding like sissy boys and their secret love for David Coverdale. Read more...
