MUNICIPAL WASTE’S GORY GAMESHOW
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 3:30pm by Axl RosenbergI got to visit the set for Municipal Waste’s new video, “Wrong Answer,” and when I first arrived, I didn’t even recognize guitarist Ryan Waste. In fact, my first thought was “What the hell is the dude from Waking the Cadaver doing here?”
Ryan was just in costume, of course. Directed by David Brodsky, the video, as Waste and drummer Dave Witte explained to me, literalizes the song’s lyrics and portrays a game show where answering a question incorrectly has deadly consequences. That might sound like the description for a Miike movie, but this being The Waste, it’s actually quite funny.
“Wrong Answer” comes off the band’s new album, Massive Aggressive, which Earache released this week. I’ll have my interview with Waste and Witte up soon; in the meantime, enjoy the clip…
-AR
I said Sammy Hagar too
OK.. bands.. pay attention.. this is how you do a freaking video.. no stupid run down warehouse.. no “let’s play our instruments in the rain” scene.. no stupid CGI effects or really crappy dragon effects (I’m talking to you Max/Soulfly)… This video is fun without being dumb.. it’s a great way for the Waste to show their sense of humor to the audience as well. Good job guys! Can’t wait to see you when you come back to Texas!
Miike <3
I never knew Dave Witte was in Municipal Waste. Good man!
Got my clamshell Massive Aggressive pack in the mail Monday. Album rocks.
The video concept reminds me of GWAR’s song “Slaughterama”
haha glad to see I wasn’t the only one who thought of Slaughterama
Yes! “…because when your life is shit, then you haven’t got much to lose!”
“how do you hide money from a hippie?….you put it under the soap!”
I was just thinking about that, good call.
I don’t really care that much about videos. This was entertaining though. It could have used more gore. haha
The tune absolutely KILLED!! (pun intended)
I’m gonna listen to the album………..now.
It was pretty cool for such a low budget movie :P
Sweet video and song
This band Blows. the video was creative for the budget, i guess.
music is great but it seems like a shity version of a gwar video
That’s why it’s so great.
Don’t really like the music (it’s not bad, just not into the whole ‘cross-over’ thingy or whatever this song is supposed to be). The video wasn’t really that funny either.
They should remake the video with another band with a good song (say the now-defunct Chastisement) and take the only (reasonably) ‘good’ thing about this video (that Muffy White – whatever her real name is) and have her dance around a stripper pole.
I know, I know…It won’t be original, nor groundbreaking and wouldn’t make YouTube’s front-page, but it’d be better than this ‘Run Ronnie Run’ rip-off. If you haven’t seen RRR or don’t know what it is (I doubt, but just in case) click here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258100/
new cd is killer, and the video was funny, but for how gory it was claimed to be (especially if you saw the press release) it was certainly lacking on that part
I think the whole killing people part is what they’re getting at. It could be viewed as “Municipal Waste endorse murder” or some bullshit like that. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Everyone should realize it’s all just fun and games.
still dislike MW but there really fun live and pretty cool guys
I love D.R.I.
SLAUGHTERAMA?
Another great Waste video. Hope their headlining tour actually happens.
I have a sudden urge to go and listen to Nuclear Assault
I’m not a fan of Municipal Waste by any stretch of the imagination, but this video was great and I have watched it a couple of times now.
I guess, I just don’t like the vocals, but whatever. It’s a fun video with a hot chick in it.
Haha, I love bands that don’t take themselves seriously. Funny video, and the new album is, well, a Municipal Waste album… you know exactly what to expect going into, but it’s still entertaining.
You gotta admit though…they definitely slowed it down this album. Just enough of a tweak to the sound to not give you the same thing again.
I feel stupider for having watched that.