Excerpt from CHAOTIC RIFFS MAGAZINE (page 18):
So far 2012 has brought a plethora of new videos from new, old, and reunited bands across the globe. Don’t have time to scour YouTube? No problem, here’s a peek into what has been released…
FUEL FROM HELL has unveiled the first video from their new album 'Easier Said Than Done', for the single "Anything Goes.” I am a fan of low budget videos so I immediately enjoy the makeshift studio created by black sheets draped all around the room. Another bonus: Elvis chops! The video itself pans back and forth from the band and the lead singer, who is reading. I was beginning to get frustrated by the lack of violence until at 3:05 when pages from the book were ripped out. No book burning, but at least it was something…
Next up its Californian rockers UGLY KID JOE who returns after a 15 year hiatus with their new single "Devil's Paradise.” The song appears on the band's 'Stairway To Hell' EP. The video begins with a cat in the alley and then lots of dilapidated buildings. Is this Detroit, MI or Camden, NJ? No. We realize this when we see the hookers who are clearly higher priced than the aforementioned cities. As for the song, it’s pretty typical UGLY KID JOE with a hook centered on drinking, popping pills, and paying for hookers. Has it really been that many years since ‘Ugly As They Wanna Be?’ Listening to this, it sure doesn’t feel like it…
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s the NEW (my description) GREAT WHITE and their video “(I’ve Got) Something For You” from their latest studio album 'Elation', the band's first with new front man Terry Ilous of XYZ fame. FUN FACT: The setting used to shoot this video had an actual outhouse. Okay, I just made that up and am not sure why. Ilous fits in well as the new vocalist, he has the bluesy raspy voice, incorporates “1-2-3..” into the lyrics, and does the “finger pointing” move well while singing the chorus. Two other highlights: 1. The serenading of the dog as it walks by. 2. The long shark guitar solo. If you don’t love long shark guitar solos, you should check your pulse!...
Reunited New York rockers BEGGERS & THIEVES have released a video for the song "Innocence", the second single from their latest album 'We Are The Brokenhearted.” We begin alone in the desert with the band wearing leather jackets and a lot of flirtatious (SEE: voluptuous) girls in ripped jeans having fun. Everyone is drinking beer which makes the scene SUPER fun! Now the guns appear. Girls and Guns? If there wasn’t drinking this would (what I assume to) be a Ted Nugent wet dream. Guns are coming out and going into cars. What are they going to shoot? I’m guessing beer cans…shooting aluminum cans is as American as baseball and apple pie. Then something weird happens, the Modello beer cans are thrown to the side and six packs of Budweiser bottles appear. This is actually what happens. Now this looks like a beer commercial complete with a gratuitous ass shot at 3:55…then just like that the video is over and the band is shooting up their guitars, speakers, and other equipment. Am I the only one slightly aroused?...
Norwegian heavy metal band HART, featuring vocalist Rock Hart together with lead guitarist Julian Angel, have released their first single and music video entitled "Untamed Heart Of Rock N' Roll.” The song is the first single from Hart's upcoming debut album 'Neon', due for release on September 4th. Hart describes the video as “totally 80s. Think Billy Idol mixed with Power Station.” Yes, this is the eighties alright. We even get the lyrics ‘REBEL IN THE NIGHT’ across the screen in between neon outlines and a fist pumping Rock Hart. At 1:45 the “woman” outline caresses herself and the ‘AAAH! AAAH! AAAH!’ across the screen is more distracting then awesome. As intended, this is the ultimate tribute to the eighties and could be used as a promo for VH1’s Metal Mania. NAILED IT!...
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