Video, most known as merciless slayer of the Radio star, has officially became the most adored tool for musicians today, often receiving more adoration than the Music itself, that it originally served but stabbed in the back for fame & fortune. If YouTube was a map, blue would represent cat-videos, and brown would represent all the incredibly creative content that artists and musicians are producing just for you, it’s a great time to be alive!
Music videos nowadays come in all shapes and sizes: and ever since OK GO turned the world upside down, indie bands have been pushing creative visual ideas to enhance their music experience. Some of your favourite videos maybe conceptual, some may tell a story complete with actors and sets, or some may have some model rolling up to a club in a pimpin’ ride; but a big chunk of videos actually focus on the band itself, the members. Because looking fab, is an art after all. & What’s better than seeing your favourite rockers performing your favourite song? Them doing it creatively. We’ve searched around the world (wide web) for the 5 most impressive music videos that truly shine in how creatively they showcased just the band members, singing or performing, and you guessed it, looking fab!
But FIRST, you have to earn it:
Slain’s Your Majesty is pure rock anthem material. We love starting a set with it! It’s the kind of groove that just instantly and mercilessly pulls the audience in, efficient, like waking a roommate up with a hammer. That, in contrast to the sweet flowing melodies of its chorus, made this the ideal song to do our first video with. It features footage of the band members rocking out performing the song, but with a little twist: the images tend to tussle, overlap and intertwine, dissect each other, fight to grab the viewer’s eye like an intricate moving collage, the background and foreground blending into one continuous stream!
We loved making it, and we know you loved watching it – now vote for it! Slain’s debut music video, Your Majesty, has been nominated for Music Video of the Year at the Indiego Music Awards, Vote for it NOW: http://bitemymusic.com/indiego-nomination-vote/indiego-best-music-video/
Done voting? Here’s the fabulous five!
Protest The Hero – Hair-Trigger
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUodza3eoUQ
Autozamm – You Don’t Know Me
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj-EMtLIdPk
Incubus – Adolescents
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKD2fjBpHFk
Meshuggah – Rational Gaze
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D08JDW_vZ5c
Pentragram – Electric
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9cqRQrfMs
