A doubleshot of progressive superawesomness

Yes my friends, it's time for some killer videos from Seattles one and only progressive metal superforce... QUEENSRYCHE

Long long ago, in a time where lead singer Geoff tate still had hair, and didn't play a saxaphone on stage (sounds more like he's tuning a Bengal tiger) there existed 5 dudes, that totally loved Rush and low budget science fiction ideas. I give you without further ado, QUEEN OF THE REICH

The video is by far the cheesiest thing i've yet posted on this website. It's a cross between mad max, starwars, and rough cinematography. This was probably Queensryche's best and heaviest direction. The video chronicles the journey of five freedom fighters, fighting their way from the injustice of an evil queen. She is the Queen of the Reich, the power of her evil crystal energizes her fortress of doom and allows her to create odd demon thingies that do her bidding. They in turn capture the freedom fighters and allow her to turn them into statues. Bitchin. From here lead singer Geoff Tate must go on a journey to save them, runs into a hot babe along the way, kills some stuff, babe turns into giant monster guy, and then he's forced to spar off with the Queen herself! ofcourse he just uses a mirror to deflect her poorly done laser eye back into her, making her...immobile? (Not killing her.. just freezing her in place.. WTF? I guess you can't slay hot babes in your videos) Somehow mastering the power of the crystal, he turns his other four freedom fighting band mates back from paper mache to human! The only thing left to do is unveil the Queen by taking off her mask, when they realize.... TO BE CONTINUED.

Really? They ended this like they were making more. I want to see what happens. They shouldn't have written any more shit past Empire. Instead of all that 90's garbage they should have come back and finished this saga.

They also did Nightrider - but it's just the dudes rockin' no story line. Just lots of tight fitting spandex and leather - and blinding lights shooting off the stage. Everything on those first two albums was killer. I don't know what made them spin off course after Mindcrime and Empire, but modern Queensryche can't even touch this stuff.

In the crazy relm of all that is glorious and metal...

One name stands out.

that name is.

RAVISH


This pompus romp about christ lets us know that it's okay to love metal, but not deviate far from one's faith. Faith in the god of skin tight red pleather that is. These guys are the lifeblood of the modern jesus fanatic metal movement, and as such, keep an ear out MTV, these guys are here to let us know what time it is.

It's.. TIME TO ROCK.

Now let this egotistical skin-tight awesomness seep into your mind. Imagine a stryper tribute band in all it's glory, being dipped in Vince Neil's 83' wardrobe, and given just enough edge to cut through. Because in the thriving scene of obscure 80's flavored jesus glam, one is always worried about blending in. Fear not though fellow metalers, There's enough RAVISH to go around. So pick up an album today.

Please these guys need beer/our van broke down / please just feel bad for us $$$ bad.

Bonus: Best Final Countdown Cover EVER

This speaks for itself.

STAKK ATTAKK! Because everything's cooler with pyro and extra k's

As an avid metal head, one has to wonder how these dudes didn't make it bigger than they did. Lightning bolt shaped guitars and dressed to kill, it's WRATHCHILD in STAKK ATTAKK. Becides over using hairspray and the letter "k" these dudes are fucking awesome. These dudes pre-date motley crue by about 2 years, and are so high voltage that it hurts.

The pyro in this video is probably the highlight, with 7 explosions about a minute into the video, it's a wonder nobody has shrapnal wounds. The cheesy pentatonic riffage and predictable guitar solo attempt to spice it up, but luckily their vocalist totes a rocket launcher and lights off a couple sparklers to compensate for the lack of creative shredding. He literally shoots a rocket launcher into the crowd, which looks more like a t-shirt gun than anything. Somehow they manage to make this song last a whole 'nother minute. Cursed to look like David Bowie in labyrinth, Stakk Attakk fell into obscurity some years later, and broke up most likely on a big cocaine binge. High Voltage.

First Post: Grim Reaper - Fear No Evil

Best Moment: Guitar Solo / Giant Rock killing a wolf man


To kickstart this bitchin blog, I've begun with one of the most METAL video's i've ever layed eyes on. This video is amazing, it begins with our freedom fighters in the band GRIM REAPER driving a giant ATV , with tons of random panning shots of skulls and a guy in a wolf costume. If that's not metal enough for ya, They bring that bitchin ATV into a cathedral to confront evil. The people in the church are all enslaved by the evil wolfman and the grim reaper. They're enslaved to turn the wheels of evil forever. Luckily the freedom fighters make them form a headbanging circle of awesomeness while the lead guitarist shreds a tasty solo in the wolf mans face. It's like a mosh pit meets LARPING. To vanquish the foul beast he throws a giant tome at it, which ofcourse causes more bad lightning effects to go off.