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CINEMETAL ROUND-UP: NEW VIDEOS FROM BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, WRETCHED, AND WOE, IS ME

 Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 at 11:30am by

I had an awesome dream last night, in which I woke up (Waking up in a dream! Trippy!!!) to find the new Pig Destroyer album in my inbox. So when I woke up for real, of course, I knew it had only been a dream, but, perhaps hopeful that I had developed psychic abilities, I ran to my computer and checked my e-mail. There was no Pig Destroyer album waiting for me, but there was a new video from Bullet for My Valentine, “Bittersweet Memories.” Which is just as good as a new Pig Destroyer album… NOT!!! (Oh yeah. I went all early-90s on your ass.)

ANYWAY, let’s actually watch this thing and see how bad it is.

[tries to watch video]

Alright. I made it about forty seconds in. Anyone make it longer? Is there any reason I need to watch the rest of this? I guess I shouldn’t be so judgmental. I mean, every generation needs their Winger, right? This Winger just wears Slayer shirts to try and pretend they’re not Winger. No biggie.

(Yes, BMFV fans. I just compared the band to Winger. That would make you the Stewart Stevenson of any given social situation amongst other metalheads. Congratulations.)


Next is Wretched’s new clip for “Cimmerian Shamballa,” which has debuted on Metal Underground. Wretched are not a bad band, but they could use a little sumpin’ sumpin’ to make ‘em more distinctive. You may recall that they previously claimed to have made the bloodiest music video ever; this one doesn’t have nearly so useful a gimmick, but the song is not too shabby. Go here to check out the clip.

Finally, we have “[&]Delinquents” from Woe, Is Me. I don’t know what the deal is with the brackets and ampersand in the song title, and I don’t know why they put the comma in their band name. Gee, I hope that commas in band names becomes a trend. Especially if those commas are always put in the wrong, place.

In any case, this is a completely generic video for a terrible song which is only memorable for featuring the most trite lyric in the history of broken-hearted fifteen year olds trying to be profound:

“Your mind is like a candle stick, my ambitions are constantly burning out.”

Dude, if your ambitions are in someone else’s mind, they’re probably not your ambitions. Like, that lyric may be the single greatest ode to Jewish mothers since Fiddler on the Roof‘s “Tradition.” I think some therapy to help you build your ego (“ego” in the Freudian sense, not in the Dave Mustaine sense) might be helpful. Then maybe you won’t feel so angsty and auto-tuney all the time.

In conclusion, waffles.

-AR

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  • Type-O-Negative

    I made 38 seconds into the BMFV video. and I’d agree with the Winger comment except the fact that Reb Beach had some amazing solos. I’d gladly cut out his solos and make an album of them if I could… as for the BMFV guys. not so much.

  • Peter Griffin

    I’m not the one to dismiss “pop” metal right of the bat, but wow does that song suck!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thomas-Leo-Braund/707525448 Thomas Leo Braund

    my profile pics not gonna do me any favours here but bfmv are a guilty pleasure of mine. although this song is one of their worst

  • Ray Peterson212

    Bullet’s first album is very good. Everything after that is complete garbage.

  • Natsquatch

    “Yes, BMFV fans. I just compared the band to Winger. That would make you the Stewart Stevenson of any given social situation amongst other metalheads. Congratulations.”

    This made me laugh. It’s so true for a few guys I knew in high school. Not that there’s anything wrong with liking them, it was just kinda funny when my friends and I would talk music and they’d always chime in enthusiastically about them, A7X, or Atreyu.

  • sacredchao

    That was not a pleasant listen. I too hit 40 seconds before making it stop.

  • Steph

    I made it 0 seconds into that BFMV song. Not falling for that one.

  • Sambo

    Woe, is Me are basically the hardcore version of The Jonas Brothers.

    • Wade Wiseman

      Woe, is Me are basically Attack Attack! but just with two vocalist instead of one.

      • Sambo

        Attack Attack are nowhere near their level though. Attack Attack try too hard to be hardcore and they finally play the music that has already been done by most bands and they are doing it wrong in too many ways to describe. At least Woe, is Me have their unique synth-powered post-hardcore sound with a singer that can actually sing very good cleans rather than the religiously confused Attack Attack who can’t make anything sound good even if they tried.

  • http://multimedia-ami.deviantart.com amelia

    Not gonna defend the shitiness of all BFMV after parts of the Scream, Aim, Fire album, but come on you guys, we’ve all got to discover metal somehow.
    You see, bands like BFMV, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Atreyu, etc. are like a test. If you’re one of the good, lucky ones, you get to move out of the shit and right up to the glorious gates of trve metal. If you’re one of the smart ones, then you’ll go in and be embraced by the awesomeness.
    But this wouldn’t be possible for many people without the likes of these gateway bands.

  • BenGibz

    i actually dig the clean vocals of WIM. And Wretched seems decent enough, straightforward death sprinkled with breakdowns and a melodic lead here or there.