Although Municipal Waste’s latest album, Massive Aggressive, has been out for over a year, they’re still making video clips to promote it. And thank goodness for that, since the results have been uniformly excellent. Their previous collaboration with Fangoria magazine on the “Acid Sentence” video produced an excellent three-minute take on the band’s beloved gore movies of the 60s and 70s. Now, with their video for “Wolves Of Chernobyl,” they’ve taken a less thematically-oriented but no less awesome approach to the art of the music video. This latest clip cuts back and forth between a performance seemingly filmed in an empty rehearsal room and scenes of the Waste invading various local businesses, including Vinyl Conflict, Fine Foods Market, and the tiny kitchen at Carytown Burgers And Fries. It doesn’t quite provide as many opportunities for Richmond scenester trainspotting as the legendary “Words Of A Dying Man” video by Alabama Thunderpussy, but there’s still some fun of that sort to be had. The video was directed by David Brodsky, otherwise known as My Good Eye, and produced as part of Scion AV’s Video Installment series. I’m not sure why a car company is into sponsoring the creation of metal videos, but it’s only one of quite a few great musical events they’ve been involved with over the past few years, so we should probably thank them for that. Anything that allows hilarious Municipal Waste videos to come into existence has gotta be pretty cool (but then, that’s probably just what they were hoping I’d say). Regardless, “Wolves Of Chernobyl” is excellent. Check it out.
Although Municipal Waste’s latest album, Massive Aggressive, has been out for over a year, they’re still making video clips to promote it. And thank goodness for that, since the results have been uniformly excellent. Their previous collaboration with Fangoria magazine on the “Acid Sentence” video produced an excellent three-minute take on the band’s beloved gore movies of the 60s and 70s. Now, with their video for “Wolves Of Chernobyl,” they’ve taken a less thematically-oriented but no less awesome approach to the art of the music video. This latest clip cuts back and forth between a performance seemingly filmed in an empty rehearsal room and scenes of the Waste invading various local businesses, including Vinyl Conflict, Fine Foods Market, and the tiny kitchen at Carytown Burgers And Fries. It doesn’t quite provide as many opportunities for Richmond scenester trainspotting as the legendary “Words Of A Dying Man” video by Alabama Thunderpussy, but there’s still some fun of that sort to be had. The video was directed by David Brodsky, otherwise known as My Good Eye, and produced as part of Scion AV’s Video Installment series. I’m not sure why a car company is into sponsoring the creation of metal videos, but it’s only one of quite a few great musical events they’ve been involved with over the past few years, so we should probably thank them for that. Anything that allows hilarious Municipal Waste videos to come into existence has gotta be pretty cool (but then, that’s probably just what they were hoping I’d say). Regardless, “Wolves Of Chernobyl” is excellent. Check it out.
