Rise Against- Make It Stop

Rise Against has been around for several years now and in June of 2011 they releases a music video foe a song entitled: Make It Stop (September's Children). The video takes place in a school following three teens struggle through daily life in school and after school. The teens are homosexuals. It shows how difficult it is and how they constantly get violently bullied. The video is not very high budget but done decent. camera shots are shakie at points when on the teens and yet steady when on the band. Rise Against, being a punk band, speaks out through their music about important issues. Through the song and lyrics they are trying to give hope to anyone who is struggling with similar issues as the teens in the video. They are letting others know that things do get better. That things won't always be this way. Their creative approach for the video was fantastic. They included videos of other teens saying that things will change. They through inspiration in. They made sure the message was conveyed clear enough for simple understatement.

 Rise Against- Make It Stop (September's Children)

Bring Me The Horizon- Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake

Bring Me The Horizon, signed to Epitaph Records, released a music video to the song Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake, on the 5th of September in 2013. This video seems to be doing well with 1,142,707 veiws and 27,733 likes. As the title of the song suggests, the song tells of anger and frustration. The quick cuts to all these dead, violent, and religious scenes fit the lyrics perfectly. The song is written well and the music is composted to fit the rough and deepness of the voice of Oli (vocalist of BMTH). The song has a catchy feel making you hit the replay button over and over again. The lighting in the scenes of the band are lit perfectly to fit the anger like mood of the song and creates a whole new world in your mind. The production of the video with editing and effects is great. It is edited to the beat and the effects give allusions of watching a TV broadcast. Oli's audio could have been brought up a bit more to stand out, but other than that great video.

Oli preparing the crowd for a wall of death.

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!

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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.

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Bulls in the Bronx by Pierce The Veil

Yesterday, May 7, 2013, Pierce The Veil released a new music video to a single off of their newest album, Collide With The Sky. The meaning behind the song its self is very deep. Bulls in the Bronx was written after PTV was emailed by multiple friends of a girl from Australia. All the emails explained how their friend took her own life and how she loved the band. This hit the band very hard especially since the band remembered meeting her. The music video was a disappointment to me and others. The video featured a girl who looked like a perfect student that many would consider a nerd. The girl comes home as a nerd and says hello to her dad then goes upstairs. As soon as she goes inside she completely changes from a nerd type style to a very provocative type. A boy sneaks into her room and then it goes to a fantasy/ dream where the boy is a bull fighter and then gets hit by the bull which then switches to the girl’s father. The boy is then chased out of the house by the father. This is the gist of the whole video. The video has absolutely NOTHING to do with the lyrics. There was so much potential for this video and PTV advertised the video heavily for about a week. Everyone was amped up for it then when it finally came it was a huge let down. The angles and the cuts of the video went with the lyrics and the music though. The videography was good and done very well; there were a few questionable cuts, but overall it was well done. PTV is a very artistic band though and they were doing something different. The song has such great meaning and it is still very close to my heart, but the video just did not live up to it.

 

Pierce The Veil- Bulls In The Bronx

 

Ungrateful by Escape The Fate

Escape The Fate, with front man Craig Mabbit, released a single, Ungrateful, back in March. Then, they pushed it further and unleashed a beast! Or in other words a music video to this track. This music video pushes the boundaries and forces you to watch it in its entirety. It’s a huge slap in the face, wake up and do something, be aware kind of video. It’s the first look into what the new album will be like; they always say a song is a gateway to the album. The story of the video has you on edge, angry, and depressed through it all. It twists its way through the lives and connections of five people; the bully, the bullied, the father of the bully, and the parents of the bullied. The film cuts between the band and the story hold your focus. It also features Craig in mid-scream drenched in blood as many great musicians have done before him. Once the music video’s story plays through the credits appear and within them more of the message is held. Pictures of a few bully victims that fell down and didn’t have the energy to get and who were, in fact, bullied to death appear at the end. Over all, Escape The Fate and Frankie Nasso, the director of the video, did a great job of creating a video and song that has a true golden message of bulling and they did it in an entertaining way. My hat's off to you, Escape the Fate. Fantastic job boys!

Escape The Fate’s album ‘Ungrateful’, as a whole, is set to be released on May 14, 2013.

Check it out for yourself:Escape The Fate - Ungrateful