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benknight

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Does anyone else find the two videos put out by SX to be, frankly, really really cheesy?

I'm a huge SX fan, but honestly the new video for Set the World On Fire is so bad that it's funny.. it's probably only one step away from being posted on blogs and college humor websites because it's so ridiculous. Russel's head-shaking to the beat and slanted-eyebrowed teeth-sneering seems to mock the band and the legitimacy of its music, not to mention the CGI / green-screen stuff is very poorly done.

The thing that worries me is that I haven't seen any criticism of the video yet! Is SX's fanbase really just a bunch of Zelda-playing metalgeeks or what? Perhaps it's just not the type of music that should have music videos, although I certainly congratulate SX on the success they've found with Paradise Lost within the metal community.

Ben
 
You're right. They should do an 80's-style, playing to no one video. Like all the old Iron Maiden vids, which don't look cheesy at all...

Or better yet, a concept in which the lyrics of the song are put into metaphor and Russell stars as this person walking around the real world. In his head, he has flashes of seeing the world burning whenever he sees certain people on the streets of New Jersey (which would of course be filmed in LA). These people are obviously the members of the band. The video would culminate with Russell finding this group of four guys hiding in a basement, dealing drugs and shipping guns to terrorists, and then he would LITERALLY set their world on fire!

/sarcasm.

I mean, really. Yeah, they are kinda cheesy. But they are following the theme from the album and I think the videos fit the songs. You can't really have songs with such weighty and referential themes set to just anything. What would you have the videos be?
 
1by4by9 said:
^ That's true, Zach.

Are you borrowing that line from Confucius? :lol:
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Yeah, either him or some other philosopher. I think the quote has been dated back to 683 BC at least.

But seriously (this is not a joke), symphony x fanbase aside, what group of metalheads didn't grow up playing Zelda? Hell, even most of the older metalheads i know are gamers to some extent. I would wager that if you went up to most any metalhead, be it black, death, power, prog, or true and asked them where you find the red ring, a good portion will be able to tell you that it is in the upper right corner of the 9th dungeon. I'm not even kidding.

The videos i could honestly do with or without, but it's good exposure so good for them. It's no worse than the shitty Dragonforce videos that get so much attention :rolleyes:
 
DoomsdayZach said:
Yeah, either him or some other philosopher. I think the quote has been dated back to 683 BC at least.

But seriously (this is not a joke), symphony x fanbase aside, what group of metalheads didn't grow up playing Zelda? Hell, even most of the older metalheads i know are gamers to some extent. I would wager that if you went up to most any metalhead, be it black, death, power, prog, or true and asked them where you find the red ring, a good portion will be able to tell you that it is in the upper right corner of the 9th dungeon. I'm not even kidding.

The videos i could honestly do with or without, but it's good exposure so good for them. It's no worse than the shitty Dragonforce videos that get so much attention :rolleyes:
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I'm not a metal head, but I did grow up playing Zelda. People who have never played A Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time are really missing out. I can actually play OOT in my head. Just about every part from beginning to end including getting the Big Goron Sword.

About the video:

I did find both of them a little on the cheesy side. I just don't think it's really that big of an issue to complain about. As far as I'm concerned, they built momentum for the band which will, hopefully, lead to the release of another album much sooner then the 5 years between the last two!
 
DoomsdayZach said:
Yeah, either him or some other philosopher. I think the quote has been dated back to 683 BC at least.

But seriously (this is not a joke), symphony x fanbase aside, what group of metalheads didn't grow up playing Zelda?
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fuck that even, what group of anyone didn't grow up playing Zelda? Zelda's some classic fuckin shit, show me a 20 something that didn't play Zelda I or II when they were 8 years old and I'll show you someone that probably grew up in a house without electricity.

And as far as the cheesiness goes... here, watch this, I guarantee you it will make you feel way better about the SymX video, and remember, this is a band thats supposed to be "evil and dark":



seriously, I cannot get past this video without laughing my ass off. What the hell happened to their budget since Death Cult Armageddon?
 
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Yngvai X said:
fuck that even, what group of anyone didn't grow up playing Zelda? Zelda's some classic fuckin shit, show me a 20 something that didn't play Zelda I or II when they were 8 years old and I'll show you someone that probably grew up in a house without electricity.

And as far as the cheesiness goes... here, watch this, I guarantee you it will make you feel way better about the SymX video, and remember, this is a band thats supposed to be "evil and dark":



seriously, I cannot get past this video without laughing my ass off. What the hell happened to their budget since Death Cult Armageddon?
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Speechless.:zombie:
 
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I'm assuming that's a dimmu video (can't see ti at work)... sadly their budget got larger. Which vid is this? The first one they did for the album (Sacraligious Scorn or something) was just gay, the second one was downright awful.

By the way, speaking of Zelda, i know i've told this story here before, but it just goes to show what a huge part of my life Zelda was when i was a kid. I played Zelda I and II ALL THE TIME, and I have to say i'm pretty damn good at those games. The following story is 100% true:

My singer had never beat Zelda II (at this point in our conversation i was about 6 beers deep) and so i told him i would beat the game and show him how it was done. I started drinking more beers and playing, which was an interesting task to say the least, and ended up on the ground crosslegged about 3 feet away from the tv with one eye closed by the second dungeon because i honestly couldn't see what the hell was going on. I was doing pretty good, considering the circumstances. Sometime arount the 3rd dungeon i pretty much blacked out, i vaguely remember in the middle of the dungeon saying "man, fuck this" and turning the game off and i vaguely remember looking at the table next to me, seeing an additional 10 empty beer bottles, all of which apparently were mine. It was over.

The next week I was determined to finish the game, so i fire it up and asked the dudes where i was. "I was like in the middle of the third temple right?" The guitarist looks at me and says "uh... no dude. You beat the 4th temple". I was like "uhh... what?" and he says "Yeah... i've never seen anyone play that game so well". I don't remember a damn thing. However, I did remember to get all the heart containers, magic jugs and up and downward thrusts, so that was good times.
 
I haven't played Zelda but I've seen my friend playing it. I think it was the Ocarina Of Time.
 
The worst music video, song and band that I have heard recently is this one.



"If you're a silly little emo who gets bullied in a cliche'd typical american High School dont worry! You can just turn into some monged up werewolf and get you're revenge >: D"

Yeah, great moral story.
 
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