The song is awesome, so is the whole cd, but the video is pretty gay.
As are most IE videos....
The story is pretty cool too, has nothing to do with egyptians getting killed by aliens.
It's basically about Setians (the natives of earth) having an advanced yet natural and harmonistic civilization on earth. Humans are a conquering race who has come across the stars in search of the secrets of the creation of earth (apparently the setians know the secrets) They invade earth and destroy much of the setian civilization. The setians are powerful and crafty people so they "cloud" the humans minds (that's why the song says "await the days of clouding" ) This makes the humans forget where they came and why they came, also it creates thousands of languages and makes the human race realize there are differences amongst it's members causing them to splinter and form fractions.
The rest of the story is about how a small number of the setians take the forms and likeness of man and hide amongst them causing strife and war (like a secret society, illuminati like) until the final plan comes to fruition, set abominae. Some sort of anti-christ like figure who will destroy humanity so that the natives of earth can re inherit it.
I think it's one of the best stories for a cd yet.
Can't wait for what they do with the second cd, and with fucking matt barlow back the music will be better too.
oh yeah and some of my favorite lines from the cd that explain the whole setians causing strife thing...
"Shallow views, intolerance
Jewish, Muslim, Protestant
The root of man's insolence
Lies in fear and arrogance
A valid threat if they unite
Moses, Muhammad, Jesus Christ
Born of man with second sight
Twist their words we will divide"
post by SW at Jan 4,2008 1:17pm
i'd like it better if it said:
"Shallow views, intolerance
Jewish, Muslim,CATHOLIC"
doesn't rhyme as well, and I think the protestants hold more power, though there are more catholics
post by SW at Jan 4,2008 1:23pm
well first of all them playing there live is fucking dumb. They should have just shown the rest of the stuff. honestly, i'm sick and tired of seeing bands video tape themselves and call it a video. this IE is better than most at least because they came up with an actual concept for a video that didn't involve them playing in an ABANDONED WAREHOUSE in the middle of alaska or whatever the fuck.
Please bands think of a real idea for a video instead of videotaping yourselves to show us how cool you look while you're lipsynching.
I always have a hard time taking videos seriously when the singer doesn't have a mic, at least as a prop. They have to come up with all kinds of silly moves and weird mugs to make up for the lack of the yellstick. See: That 6FU video that's on OnDemand, right now. They're bad enough as it is, but I if I'd wanted to see Barnes' ugly mug out from behind a mic, I'd have sent him a memo.
Here's a link to a shit-ton of other documents if that's not enough proof for you. Please take a look at some of this stuff there is a lot of really good info. I know there is a lot of christian stuff on there but trust me, this website has SOLID info.
http://arcticbeacon.com/books/
Here's a link to a shit-ton of other documents if that's not enough proof for you. Please take a look at some of this stuff there is a lot of really good info. I know there is a lot of christian stuff on there but trust me, this website has SOLID info.
http://arcticbeacon.com/books/
So, what part of this makes John Tardy yelling at a field look cool?
I always have a hard time taking videos seriously when the singer doesn't have a mic, at least as a prop. They have to come up with all kinds of silly moves and weird mugs to make up for the lack of the yellstick. See: That 6FU video that's on OnDemand, right now. They're bad enough as it is, but I if I'd wanted to see Barnes' ugly mug out from behind a mic, I'd have sent him a memo.
hahahahaha yeah that video is so bad. another good example is Fear Factory's video for Cyberwaste, its them in an abandoned warehouse, haha, and Burton has no mic so he just has to make silly moves and weird mugs the whole time.
The thing is, there's a good reason why metal vocalists hold the mic up in front of their faces: Your mouth tends to look pretty fuckin' silly when you're going, "GREEEEAAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEELMNOP!!!" I know mine does.
