Odium eyeing At the Bottom video

Directed by Chad Archibald from the album, Year of the Sun.

2009 has been the breakout year for Odium. They signed to Year of the Sun records earlier in the year, released their debut album Year of the Sun(coincidence?) and filmed their first video, At the Bottom.

Great video that uses both the name of the band, and underlying track to create a captivating clip. The kid's transformation at the end was unexpected, though children in these kinds of videos seem to always have an otherworldly way of solving their problems. Why is everything but his face completely clean?


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Daath eyeing Day of Endless Light video

Directed by Robin Fuller from the album, The Concealers.

Eyal Levi(guitar) on the band's current album, "call me cocky if you will, but check out the record and if you disagree feel free to write me on our Myspace and call me a prick". Levi states that The Contenders features the best writing he has ever done and that everyone else's play level has increased since their last release. [CenturyMedia]

Interesting animations in the background but nothing else but a performance clip...

Ninetail eyeing Half Truths & Hand Grenades video

Directed by Eric Bess from the album, Half Truths & Hand Grenades.

Ninetail played the Project Independent Pennsylvania State Invitational in 2007, a festival showcasing underground metal acts. Their work was included in a compilation CD leading to their eventual crowning as the "2008 Project Independent Featured Artist of the Year".

The video starts out promising, looking like a concept video of high yield investigatory tactics. It then turns into another cookie cutter warehouse video with some escape scenes interspersed. He pulled the pin but no explosion...

Izegrim eyeing Point Of No Return video

Video produced by Arno Zuidgeest from the Point Of No Return EP.

Izegrim were nominated for a metal female voice award in Belgium. The awards are sponsored by Metal Female Voice Fest, a festival that focuses on highlighting female singers in the metal genre.

Screamo chicks are few and far between in the metal world. Good idea of whoever was holding the camera to make sure that once you were finished watching the video, you will always remember her face.


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Napalm Death eyeing Time Waits For No Slave

Directed by Tom Blyth from the album, Time Waits For No Slave.

"I'm kind of loathe in a way to act as any kind of scene overseer because that's when things start to get a little elitist, which is something I really can't abide" [Exclaim], Mark Greenway's(vocalist) answer to a question on whether they are doing anything to keep the grindcore flame burning. The band has been active for 28 years with Mark at the helm for the most part since 1989.

The animation makes the video more than it really is, a performance video in a small room someplace. The hanging bodies throw in a metal feel but the rest is just...

Bloodbath eyeing Hades Rising

Directed by Owe Lingwall from the album, The Fathomless Mastery.

Bloodbath is a Swedish metal group consisting of the bands, Opeth and Katatonia. The performance section of the music video was filmed in Vallentuna outside Stockholm, Sweden while the acting sequences were filmed in Umeå .

A dark video, both literally and figuratively. Are they bleeding or sweating? Don't hide the gore in the dark if you're trying to be gory. Priests should not watch T.V....


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Children eyeing Power Spirit

From the EP, Hard Times Hanging at the End of the World.

"Reaching back through time to lay hands in the forges of metal, NYC's Children riff out the present with their debut, Hard Times Hanging at the End of the World". [Kemado]

The clip starts out dark and brooding, the viewer wondering whether it's going to be a take on the "Blair Witch Project." Next comes the running, actually sprinting, in the long underwear while playing guitar. One has to smile at the flying guitar shot that is caught perfectly by the guitarist who keeps playing. And beware, playing guitar in the woods doesn't do well for your fingers...


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EVOCATION eyeing Tomorrow Has No Sunrise

Directed by René U Valdes from the album, Dead Calm Chaos.

The Swedish band formed in 1991 and by 1993 was considered one of the most interesting Death Metal performers from the country. That same year the band went on hiatus and started rehearsing again in 2005.

Might need to go get that checked out...


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Amoral eyeing Gave Up Easy

From the album, Show Your Colors.

Amoral's more melodic music direction may have caused the depature of former vocalist, Niko Kalliojärvi.

Minds at work...

LUNARSEA eyeing Metamorphine

Directed by Federico Ferrari from the album, Route Code Selector.

Federico Ferrari also directed their first video for Beside the Driver.

Darkness consumes...


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SANCTIFICATION eyeing Storm

Video by Björn Algers, Jonas Engbo and Erik Engbo from the album, Black Reign.

The video was recorded in Sweden and took one day to film.

Could be a shampoo commercial...

Six Reasons To Kill eyeing Bleeding Stereo

Directed by Daniel Kreuter from the album, Another Horizon.

Six Reasons To Kill combined metal and hardcore while the hybrid was still in its infancy in 1999.

Pigs...

Nailed Coil eyeing Hands Of A Killer

Directed by Joni Karlsson from the as of yet announced album.

A majority of the band members completed military service for the Republic of Finland during 2006.

Watching the watched...


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COMMANDER eyeing IRA

Directed by Stefan Berlak from the album, The Enemies We Create.

"...Sole meaning of existence is to compete with and to outdo self-created bogeymen," COMMANDER on some of the concepts behing the album.

Grainy...

Pestilence eyeing Devouring Frenzy

Produced by Frank Duijnisveld from the album, Resurrection Macabre.

The band parted ways in 1994 and just got back together in 2008.

The mummy lives...

NecronomicoN eyeing The Time is Now

Produced by Benoit Nantel from the album, The Return of the Witch.

The band was officialy formed in 1991 and released its debut album, Pharaoh of Gods, in 1998.

A non-violent violent demonstration...

The Lucifer Principle eyeing Graveyard Ave.

Produced by Arno Zuidgeest from the album, Welcome to Bloodshed.

The group's name came from the book by Howard Bloom of the same title.

Don't go in dark rooms...

CENTAURUS-A eyeing The Praying Mantis

From the album, Side Effects Expected

[...Our overall goal is to compose a coherent song that balances technical brutality, weird and sick themes/rhythms with catchy and comprehensible grooves and melody]. [Metalcrypt]

What did the drummer take to give him 'those' side effects???


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Trigger the Bloodshed eyeing The Great Depression

From the album, The Great Depression.

According to their record label's "about me" page, they are considered the heaviest band in the UK. [MetalBlade]

That must be the sound cracking the camera lens...

Amon Amarth ft. L.G. Petrov eyeing Guardians of Asgaard

From the album, Twilight of the Thunder God.

Guardian's of Asgaard is the highest selling album of the groups previous seven label released albums.

I like the switch at the end or at least I think it was a switch...