Blessthefall- You Wear A Crown But You're No King

Blessthefall, a metalcore/post-hardcore band, released a music video three weeks ago, with the help of Fearless Records and Brad Golowin, entitled You Wear A Crown But You're No King. This video draws its audience in with an intro that has a creepy almost horror like sound and mood. It has low key lighting and starts with a shot of a man’s feet and legs walking; almost dragging an axe aside of him. This makes you wonder what is going to happen, what he is going to do with this axe. It keeps you intrigued and wanting to know what he is doing. Soon enough it goes to black and cuts to Blessthefall surrounded by fire patches and some pyrotechnics going on in the background. Giving you the connection between the lyrics and the actual video. The lyrics talk about watching an empire fall and that we can connect with the destruction, fire, in the video.  Throughout the whole video these fire technics are used and it just gives it that classic rock band image that we have all come to know and love. That was a classic and wow factor to the video. I mean who doesn't love some old fashion pyrotechnics to give a band an edgy rebel like look? The music itself is well produced. The music compliments either the cleans or the screams. It gets edgy and heavy when the screams are being done and with the cleans it lightens up and allows the cleans to carry the direction of the instruments. Over all it was an intriguing and well done video to compliment a fantastic band!

New Years Day- Angel Eyes

New Years Day, an American rock band straight out of Cali, released a new song, Angel Eyes, on August 14, 2013. Accompanying the Cali rock band in the song is Chris Motionless from the band Motionless in White. With the female-edgy clean vocals of lead singer, Ashley Costello, and the dark-masculine cleans and screams from Mr. Motionless the song was a success. The voices complemented each other as well as the instilments. The song has a very catchy aspect to it making you want to play it over and over again. As for the music video it captures you and pulls you in. The video hypnotizes you and you can’t take your eyes away from the screen. There is enough going on, so when you watch it a second time you see things that you didn’t quite see the first time. The lighting sets a mysterious mood that makes you wonder what is going to happen next. You feel like you are at the masquerade party following Ashley around as Chris follows. Director, Justin Lutsky, hit a solid 8 out of 10 on my great music video scale. Well done!

New Years Day

Miles Away(Acoustic)- Memphis May Fire ft. Kellin Quinn

Matty Mullins, front man for Memphis May Fire, dug deep and poured out his true feelings for the lyrics to the band's song Miles Away, which featured Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens. The song was originally on their album Challenger (released in 2012) and quickly became a favorite of the fans. Months later, on August 1, 2013, the band released an acoustic version of the song accompanied by a music video. The video focused on Matty, switching from shots of him singing in front of his fans having the time of his life and him singing in sorrow on the tour bus to shots of him on tour, lonely, sad, just missing something. The video also shows Kellin singing during his part of the song. What many might miss during the part where Kellin sings is a faint female voice singing along with Kellin. This was a very creative and clever idea. The female voice does not ruin Kellin's voice or his part in the song, but in a way it enhances it. The song tells of Matty's struggle between missing his wife on tour as well as being filled with sorrow for that reason and having great joy in seeing his fans and helping them through their own struggles. Kellin's part in the song is more of what seems like the female, or Matty's wife's, side to the story being told within the song, so putting the female voice under Kellin's voice enhances the story; it gives it more of the feel that it is Matty's wife coming through into the song instead of Kellin. The whole video is done perfectly. The effects added to the video makes it feel like a personal video and gives it a calm feeling and it is not too flashy, so you can actually focus on the story being told through the lyrics. Everything just seems to fit together and matches to create the sorrowful but comforting mood of the song. The shots match the song perfectly. I could not have asked for a better video to go with such a powerful song.