CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’S VIDEO FOR “SANCTUARY” IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS THEIR COVER ART
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 10:12am by Axl RosenbergInfliked, the new album by Cavalera Conspiracy, may have turned out to be a pleasantly awesome surprise (read our review here), but the band’s video for first single “Sanctuary” is, alas, not nearly as cool.
The concept isn’t bad: at a photo shoot for the band, a 28 Days Later-style monster goes on the rampage and kills pretty much everyone in the room (save for the band, who, I suppose, are saved by the sheer power of their rocking). The clip is even filmed in lo-fi video to give it some sense of “realism.”
Unfortunately, it’s also shot in first-person shakey cam, a la The Blair Witch Project and the more recent Cloverfield, a.k.a. The Blair Monster Project. The result is that you can’t really see anything, and I don’t mean in a Jaws being-suggestive-is-more-scary-than-being-gory kind way; I mean, really, you can’t see very much.
So, y’know, that blows.
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-AR
disagree.. awesome fucking video. better than most special effects and bro mosh heavy videos from metal bands these days.. it’s as raw as hell, like the metal on the new album.
btw, the youtube video looks like it wasn’t rendered correctly. it’s quite choppy compared to version that mtv’s metal blog posted.
I’ll agree with Rob. I thought it was refreshing. Metal videos are soooooo boring these days. At least they didn’t get some goth girl to hang around and look depressed.
the high-school a/v nerd who directed this reeeeaaaally likes jj abrams
Why do bands make studio videos anymore? So boring, so weak.