NEW LIVE VIDEOS FROM THE HAUNTED, SUICIDE SILENCE & KING’S X
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 12:40pm by Vince NeilsteinLive music videos are hit or miss; either they capture the live spirit and energy of the band in all their glory or they come off as cheap, completely sucking the life out of potentially great bands. This week we’ve got three brand new live music vids that run said gamut.
File The Haunted’s new one for “Moronic Colossus” — the first single from their recently released record Versus (read David Bee Roth’s review) — as a big fat win. That The Haunted chose to stick with the live audio rather than laying the studio track on top of live video like most bands do is a testament to how virgin-tight and crushing this band is in the live setting. Big ups!
On the other side of the spectrum we’ve got a live video for “Pray” by King’s X, a good song — and an excellent live band — whose video is a total snoozefest guilty of precisely the pratfalls The Haunted avoided with theirs. Oh well. I still love this band and will go see them pretty much any time they roll through NYC.
Squarely in the middle we’ve got a new one from Suicide Silence which does a stellar job of being completely “meh.” This whole band is meh. I know Axl likes ‘em, but I just don’t see it; what I see is a scenecore/deathcore band who admits to liking Korn. I guess the video does a good job of making these guys look awesome live (footage from this past summer’s Rockstar Mayhem run), but to thee I say: studio audio! Fail.
I suppose you’d actually like to WATCH these videos rather than read my boring analysis of them, eh? Click on through to the other side.
The Haunted – “Moronic Colossus” (Live @ Wacken 2008)
King’s X – “Pray”
Suicide Silence – “Unanswered”
Haha, google advertising for the win. I’d have to say the sexiest music video goes to the Haunted. I could feel my pants shrinking as my ears were crushed.
The Haunted put on an excellent live show. I was right in the front during Ozzfest 2005. I still remember Dolving’s face was purple by the end of their (short) set; I was almost worried for the guy.
It reached over 100 degrees in Houston that day; that was the last time I attempted to reach the front… I almost fainted from dehydration during the time I was holding my spot. Mastodon’s Troy Sanders tried to “cool everyone off with a little ‘Aqua Dementia’.”
I guess that didn’t really have anything to do with the post.
I don’t know if this is the case for any of these bands, but some videos have to put studio tracks over live videos because maybe they just couldn’t get a good enough live recording and/or they just didn’t have the funding for it.
I mean lets be honest….Vince is a fucking moron. If you can sit there and watch that Suicide Silence video and not wanna smash your computer against the wall then something is seriously wrong. I was at the Mayhem fest on Long Island and they had one of largest crowds. Regardless of what subgenre you classify them into give them the respect they deserve. If you dont like deathcore or scenescore or whogivesafuckcore give this album one more listen…I bet you will change your mind. Rohit you hit right on the head. They probably could not afford excellent live audio to make the video sound good.
The Haunted wins! Somebody needs to tell Suicide Silence that the windmils are out of sync! I mean the bass player is definetly ahead on some of the parts in that vid! O – M – G!!