Category Archives: Video of the Week
This category is for a video chosen to represent the Video of the Week. It is selected by any of A Metal State of Mind’s contributors or authors. Enjoy!
Videos of the Week: When I Lost My Bet & The Cloak
Here’s a pair of really neat videos you should feel obligated to check out because they are both awesome.
First up is “When I Lost My Bet”, the new video from Dillinger Escape Plan. If entrails and bloody gloryholes make you squeamish, you may just want to listen to the audio. For the rest of us, this is a really will directed and unique video that really captures the bat shit craziness of DEP perfectly. Check it out!
And second up we have the first video from the upcoming Leprous album Coal for the tune “The Cloak”. This video is damn great with the focus on simplicity really let the dark atmosphere drive the visuals home. I also like that it fits perfectly with the album title and the visuals meld wonderfully with the song to create a wholly engaging experience. Enjoy!! Peace Love and Metal!!!
Video of the Week – Horrorscope
Mik has been posting her favorite intros lately. In case you missed it, they are pretty cool posts. One of them, a few weeks ago, was from Overkill…one of my all-time favorite bands. It was nice to see them make her list…you know, for a Thrash metal band. 
I have since been paying more attention to intros and remember this classic from Overkill which will surely rate high on my list if I decide to make one. This song is from their classic self-titled album released in 1991. If you have never indulged in Overkill, I highly recommend this album. Enjoy the nice ominous intro and the rest of the song.
Video of the Week – The Mob Goes Wild
I managed to see Clutch live twice and sadly, I didn’t appreciate them then as much as I do now. Once was opening for Pantera when I never knew who or what Clutch was. The second time was opening for Anthrax. At least the latter I was more familiar with the band. Over the last few years I have expanded my horizons to their style of music which opened the door for many bands I now enjoy listening to regularly.
To make a long story short, I am still exploring the discography of Clutch. I dig this song and the video; there’s nothing like a bar fight with bluesy rock music playing in the background. The Mob Goes Wild can be found on Clutch’s 6th studio album Blast Tyrant. It can also be played if you have the game Rock Band 2. Enjoy your Video of the Week and have a great weekend.
Videos of the Week: Scarlet, Bohemian Rhapsody (Puscifer Version), and Secular Haze
I guess you can call this the week of what the actual fuck did I just watch videos. Less for Ghost’s, err, sorry, Ghost B.C., new video for “Secular Haze” which I just find hella neat, but the other 2, there had to be some kind of drug consumption when planning those out and putting them together.
First up is Periphery’s new video for “Scarlet” off of Periphery II (which I am kind of warming up to after giving it another spin after watching this video). At first I thought it was going to be a neat, high production sci-fi stuff, with a slightly tongue-in-cheek style (how they opened the spaceship door cracked me up). As soon as I saw that the spaceship the band was traveling on was in the shape of one of those mustard bottles you find at your local burger shop (not McDonalds, but the good Mom and Pop ones) or diner, slightly tongue-in-cheek was thrown out the window for ludicrous speed, this video is going plaid. So, without spoiling too much before you watch it cause the WTF factor is half the fun, I just need to ask, mustard or ketchup? Also, best waste of a record labels advance for a music video since Red Fang and current early leader for #1 video of the year.
Next up is Maynard James Keenan and the band he’s putting too much time into instead of getting that Tool record fans have been clamoring about, for what, more than a decade now. Puscifer’s rendition of quite possibly the most famous song ever recorded is a very straight take on “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Maynard’s voice sounds great and fit’s the song well, and the harmonies are done excellently. But how bout that video. Using a classic film I can’t name or recognize (but I probably should) Maynard and some chubby dude’s, John Wayne Gacy?, heads are superimposed on the actors. It’s pretty creepy, and it’s all down hill from there. If people staring into your soul with a rapist’s gaze while eating eggs disquiets you, you’ve been warned. Anywho, great and very creative video, just the way I like ‘em.
Lastly we have the new video from Ghost for you. Much less on the WTF factor and has performance footage of the band. But unlike most performance videos, this one fits the band quite well as they choose for a kind of 70s American Bandstand backdrop that matches that retro sound of the band. I also got a chuckle that this was released at the same time as the pope’s resignation. And I don’t know about you, but I am totally hyped for when the new Ghost album lands in March, and this tune just reaffirms my hype.
