Amazing Music Videos

This is a classic Metallica video from the ‘. . . And Justice For All’ album from 1988.  Kirk Hammett’s solo from this song has since become infamous.  This is the studio version of ‘One’ but it is chopped up with scenes from the film ‘Johnny Got His Gun’, a story about a soldier who comes back from war deaf, dumb, blind and missing his limbs.  The film and book it was based upon were major influences for the song.

 Metallica has a new album coming out soon called ‘Death Magnetic’; I’ve heard the singles they released called ‘Cyanide’ and ‘All Nightmare Long’ and I’m not impressed.    

Municipal Waste started as a thrash/powerviolence band from Richmond, Virginia and as their sound progressed more towards thrash metal their exposure increased. They are now on Earache and have ex-Burnt By The Sun drummer Dave Witte. This song is from their Earache debut, Hazardous Mutation. More recently they have also released The Art of Partying. This video is clearly a party.

After several years establishing themselves as one of the greatest thrash metal bands in the world, Brazil’s Sepultura put out their death metal opus, ‘Chaos A.D.’ in 1993 which brought them mainstream success.  This was back in the early 90s when death metal was a little slower and more interesting, inspired by bands like Sweden’s Entombed.

Chaos A.D. stood out not only because of the large hardcore punk influence, but also because of the unique rhythms present in the songs.  Max Cavalera had been known for his interest in the music of the native Brazilian tribes and he brought some of those beats into play on Chaos A.D.  This sound is a bit dated now as a lot of mediocre metal bands added tribal beats to their music in the late 90s, but in 1993 tribal beats in heavy music was unheard of.

This video was shot on the Israel-Palistine border; I’m not sure if Sepultura were pro-Israel, anti-Israel, or just anti-war.  From the looks of the video, maybe they just wanted some shots of metal looking dudes looking hard in the Middle-Eastern desert.

This is a gem from the golden era of thrash, probably Anthrax’s biggest hit from their best album, 1987’s Among the Living.  This was the classic Anthrax lineup of Joey Belladona on vocals, Charlie Benante on drums, Frank Bello on bass and Scott Ian and Dan Spitz on guitar.  Awesome hair.