NEW CHIMAIRA VIDEO FOR “DESTROY AND DOMINATE” DESTROYS, DOMINATES
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 3:42pm by Axl RosenbergAlright. So if you’ve watched the excellent, Todd Bell-directed “Making Of” DVD that accompanies the deluxe edition of Chimaira’s latest, The Infection – or, for that matter, if you’ve just listened closely to the lyrics – you know that Danny Boyle’s sci-fi opus Sunshine was an influence on the lyrics for the song “The Disappearing Sun.”
The band’s new video – also directed by Bell – is (obviously) not for that particular song, but it would appear as though imagery from that film was still a big, big influence on the clip. Sunshine deals with some pretty complex issues (don’t let its appearance as a by-the-numbers space opera fool you), so I’ll leave it to you to try and make the thematic connections between the movie and “Destroy and Dominate.”
This is easily the best video the band has ever made. Bell, a friend of the group’s, has directed many of their clips in the past, but he’s really outdone himself here – the imagery is just awesome. I’ll have to watch it a few more times to try and discern if there’s a method to the madness of the all the crazy pictures or it’s just supposed to look cool, but either way, I’m really digging it.
Ironically, there’s an ad for anti-drug campaign before the video, but I think we can all ignore that in the name of enjoying this video the way it was meant to be enjoyed (e.g., with lots and lots of weed).
-AR
i would be nice to watch the video without those fucking chariot banners blinking like strobe lights on the sides of my screen
full-screen that shit!!!
^^^^ yeah, i just wanted to point out those banners are annoying as fuck
THe little rhythmic breakdown thing at 2:00 sounds really familiar from somehwere… Am I just imagining that?
defintly not the best video….ressurection was defintly the best video…chimaira , mad bitches, partyin…that’s defintly the shit right there…
What a sick video, love the photography.
I loved how it captured the look of the movie sunshine. which, for the record is one of the better scores of recent memory. Love the record more and more everyday.
I think I know their inspiration for the intro part. Look up the MESHUGGAH song “new cyanide christ”. the intro of this song is very familiar to the breakdown of THAT song…..
as far as chimairareia goes, I have impossibility of reason. first 6\7 songs are killer, rest is kinda boring. this songs pretty cool, exept for aformentioned “similarities”.
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