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klangklangston — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:45:59 -0800

Metal band Red Fang gets $5000 to make a video.

By: churl

churl — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:52:22 -0800

The first Red Fang video is also can't-miss. Same director. Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog These guys are Portland locals, bumped into them a few times. Great dudes.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:53:52 -0800

1) Clearly Posehn cost a hella lot more than $0.00 2) I swear I had that flag helmet as a young'n. 3) I swear that guitarist (especially when wearing that hat) is a much younger version of my old mechanic. Seriously, it's uncanny. 4) They should've used a Pinto.

By: Nomyte

Nomyte — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:55:55 -0800

I love consumer rock.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:58:19 -0800

thankfully filming costs nothing!

By: mannequito

mannequito — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:59:01 -0800

MoneyShot!

By: blaneyphoto

blaneyphoto — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:59:23 -0800

I'm pretty sure Beavis and Butthead would approve of this video.

By: Daddy-O

Daddy-O — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:04:51 -0800

I'm pretty sure I was led to this video before by this comment.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:21:16 -0800

I don't even like Red Fang, but their videos are really entertaining. Like OK GO in that regard.

By: xedrik

xedrik — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:32:54 -0800

SO MUCH MILK. Seriously, when that shit hit the hot engine, that car had to be smelling baaaaad.

By: bardic

bardic — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:50:17 -0800

Boner.

By: brennen

brennen — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:55:25 -0800

That was really quite good.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:58:22 -0800

Not the pinball machine! (or the lead-containing TVs!)

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:01:18 -0800

Pretty sweet!

By: special agent conrad uno

special agent conrad uno — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:04:11 -0800

DU: TVs also contain communist ideals. You win some, you lose some.

By: mkb

mkb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:12:55 -0800

I think I actually recognize that organ discarded by my church during renovations. I wondered what happened to it.

By: Area Control

Area Control — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:30:30 -0800

I watched this on mute with the debates on and it was just as enjoyable.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:32:14 -0800

Not to be pedantic, but aren't these guys more 'stoner rock' (a la Queens of the Stone Age) than metal? Anyway, fun video. :)

By: TheRedArmy

TheRedArmy — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:48:58 -0800

Not to be pedantic, but aren't these guys more 'stoner rock' (a la Queens of the Stone Age) than metal? Anyway, fun video. :) Upholding metallic ideals is an increasingly lost cause. With absolutely no sarcasm intended I say that misguided attempts at using chords and vocal hooks combined with a pretty shocking and unconscionable kicking-to-the-curb of The Riff have created a whole bunch of bands who call themselves metal but don't understand that metal IS the rhythm guitar riff. Everything else is gravy. Even some who used to approach metal in the proper riff-based way are shitting the bed as if they looked around and said "Hey, if all these new bands are getting away with not writing any good riffs what the fuck are we bothering for?" Lamb of God I'm looking at you. And I'm not really referring to the band this post is about, I'm just taking up your space and time to talk about my own fragile feelings about bloody, brutal metal.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:20:10 -0800

Which one's Wendy O?

By: sauril

sauril — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:29:36 -0800

Who was the clerk in the store where they bought all the junk food? He looked familiar.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:35:27 -0800

Brian Posehn

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:39:49 -0800

I lived next door to Dave Sullivan (their guitarist, the guy getting the mail in the beginning of the video) in pdx and have been in that house many times. Dave is, in addition to being a shredding guitarist, a really sharp coder and once of the nicest guys in the world. I was stoked when I lost contact with him and then found out he was in a rock band touring all over the place.

By: sauril

sauril — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:51:43 -0800

Ah - Hence the first post - thanks. These guys are fun, if they ever come through town I'll check them out.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:18:17 -0800

SO MUCH MILK. I'm thinking that was the cumshot. Except it came kind of early.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:19:49 -0800

If this is metal, then what is Cavalera Conspiracy?

By: rh

rh — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:31:44 -0800

I saw the check cashing and the gas station food and was like "Noooo! You're on a budget! Both of those things could have been a lot cheaper with a little bit of planning!". Because I'm a dork like that.

By: churl

churl — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:33:40 -0800

> Clearly Posehn cost a hella lot more than $0.00 Eh I don't know that this is clear. He's been a friend and outspoken fan of the band since before this album dropped – they may have paid him, or it's just as likely he did it for fun. On the other hand, I am pretty sure they don't give a rip whether they're categorized as "metal" or not. "The one great thing about rock and roll," as pyramid termite once said, "is that if you turn it up to 11, you can't hear what they're saying about it"

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:50:44 -0800

Proud to be a Portlander right now.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:04:00 -0800

But they could have put the $5k in a savings account at 0.1% interest and retired in...ah, never mind this was a much better investment.

By: compartment

compartment — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:35:26 -0800

I just moved back to Portland and have aready watched this video like four times to get psyched up. Now I am going to watch it a fifth time and see what happens.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:46:46 -0800

Good, cuz it's not metal, let's all be clear on that.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:48:27 -0800

COME ON GUYS IT'S PBR JUST RUN THAT PISSWATER OVER

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:41:47 -0800

Thanks for posting. I liked the tune. Also got a kick out of the sight gag of the bumper stickers on the station wagon as they're pulling out of the used car lot.

By: asfuller

asfuller — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:34:43 -0800

That parking lot was very distinctly the Grocery Outlet by my house.

By: axoplasm

axoplasm — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:05:07 -0800

I'm gonna get me a pair of Google Goggles so I can watch this nonstop on top of boring old reality FOREVER.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:57:07 -0800

"If this is metal, then what is Cavalera Conspiracy?" Also metal. Metal is big. TRVEKVLT is bvllshit.

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:11:46 -0800

That's like saying Lady Gaga is New Wave.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:31:06 -0800

Well, no. And if you really want to go down the pedant's guide to genre dickery, I'm happy to do that with you, but in order to make a claim that this isn't metal, you're going to need a definition that cuts out bands like Mastadon and Venom. (And "New Wave" is a bad counter-example because it's tied to a time period much more than a sound.)

By: asfuller

asfuller — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:21:35 -0800

While all the subgenres and definitions could be argued endlessly, I quite enjoy this site for a taste of different bands and eras of metal http://mapofmetal.com

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:37:40 -0800

That's a pretty sweet site. Thanks.