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THE BEST METAL VIDEO WE’VE SEEN IN AGES ISN’T EVEN A METAL VIDEO

 Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 at 2:30pm by

Until this morning, I’d never heard of Jogger, the not-at-all-metal outfit that features Night Court star John Larroquette’s son, Jonathan Larroquette; and while I do enjoy some moodier electronica (e.g., Amon Tobin), I’m not sure that their music is for me.

But GODDAMN if the group’s video for “Nephicide” isn’t the best music video I’ve seen in what feels like FOR-EV-ER. Directed by Matthew Robinson, the clip probably had one-one-millionth of the budget that Ozzy’s latest did, and yet it shows a million times more ingenuity and wit. This is the kind of music video that makes almost all other music videos look bad, the kind that shows that just a little bit of thought goes a long way. Seriously, this video fucking rules.

Of course, Jogger aren’t the first non-metal band to have great fun at black metal’s expense: y’all saw that one Goldfrapp video last year, right?

-AR

Thanks to both |Tch0rT| and J.X.XIII for the tip!

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  • Metalguy

    Music and video were awesome

  • Tim p.

    Nice. But maybe they could cut that first riff that is taken directly from Creed’s “Higher” because it is the mst annoying riff evr

  • Trux

    Everyone should have great fun at black metal’s expense, because , seriously, that subgenre fucking blows….

    And before anyone says anything, it is obvious that not every black metal sucks donkey balls but, yeah…. like 95% of them do.

    • Blargh

      95% of death metal, tech-death, thrash metal and doom metal bands suck donkey balls too, so your point is moot. There is a lot of shitty metal these days.

    • |Tch0rT|

      95% of all genre’s and bands fucking blow.

      • Daddy’s Magic Finger

        “Ninety percent of everything is crap.”–Theodore Sturgeon

  • cyrollan

    jonathan laraquette is one half of the best podcast ever: Uhh… Yeah Dude.

  • SP420

    I watched this to the music of 7 Indian kids arguing over their thermodynamics homework. It didn’t really work. I wish I brought headphones.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cleber-Monteiro/100000392246968 Cleber Monteiro

    Funny video,boring music.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Burton/784250631 Dan Burton

    This is great, the likelyhood is that whoever makes up Jogger are probably big metal fans themselves. This isn’t a piss take, more of an affectionate ribbing. It’s only one step away from Genghis Tron really.

    • |Tch0rT|

      I was thinking that they were probably metal fans too. The blond kid practically looks just like Nocturno Culto when he went under Kveldulv for Satyricon’s Nemesis Divina.

  • Curmudgeon

    Someone needs to make that blood puke scene into a gif right fucking now!

  • Kazz

    Parts of it sounded like an 8-bit remix of a metal song. Very good video.

  • http://myspace.com/duckbillz Duck Billz

    Wow, that was unexpectedly beautiful. Gonna have to check out this band.

    And the video was hilarious, of course.

  • Doug

    Pretty cool video. Not a fan of Jogger’s music but this gave me a couple laughs.

  • the_dglgmut13

    When that blonde kid started blood puking all over the dude’s skateboard, I spat out my kvlt onion soup and laughed hard. Real hard.

  • crapmcpoopin

    better than Brodsky.

  • http://www.nylithia.com Dental Damnation

    That’s some weird music there.

  • charan

    more metal than Nu-metal and most metalcore