BECAUSE WHEN I’M STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A SWAMP, I USUALLY READ WAR AND PEACE
Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 10:40am by Axl RosenbergDude, I’m not ragging on Cryptopsy because really I have no strong feelings about this band one way or the other, but what is up with their video for “The Pestilence That Walketh In Darkness (Psalm 91:5-8)?” I get that it’s about a psalm – I mean, it does say it right there in the title, after all – but why the fuck is this dude standing in the middle of a swamp reading the fucking Bible?
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Also, can we have a moratorium of people rolling their eyes into the backs of their heads in a metal video? I don’t think that shit has been scary since The Exorcist.
Okay. So maybe I’m ragging on Cryptopsy a little.
-AR
When you’re Cryptopsy, you can read anywhere :)
cryptopsy can do whatever the fuck they want. Its a shame they dont have lord worm anymore though.
Yeah, Cryptopsy are (were? They have a hot keyboardist in the band now. Name me one awesome band with a hot, female keyboardist. Bleeding Through? Abigail Williams? Check and mate.) the shit. Heaviest live show I’ve ever seen. And no, it was not in a swamp.
Another great headline brought to you by the almighty MetalSucks!
is this a joke?
Maybe it is the fact that I am not 15 anymore, but I find the image they project extremely laughable. Eyes rolled back, worm eating ! wow, I really needed a good laugh…thx Metalsucks.
I expect a certain amount of ‘lost in time 10 years ago’ with most things Canadian so I give ‘em a pass on the 1992 style metal cliches
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