zombie music

leave it up to me to post a super romantic music video on valentine's day...

it's been a few days since i've posted, and that makes me pretty sad. been a crazy week with my car. things are now straightened up. because of the craziness i've been getting very little sleep daily. which plays in part with today's post.

on normal days, my television is mostly tuned to sportscenter. last night, however, when i went to bed, my tv was tuned to vh1 classic. and it was 2:30am, which meant that metal mania was playing. for those unfamiliar with metal mania, it's a block of heavier music videos both old and new stuff. i just flipped it on and climbed into bed. and then i got hooked.

the video was grainy and old-ish looking and had ZOMBIES. i LOVE zombies. plus the song was pretty cool. it was certainly pretty hard metal, but i was grooving to it. (sidenote: try to find something i won't dance to.)

please keep in mind that, when first viewing this video, i was hoping the artist wasn't who i thought it was. in the end, it was metallica, which is exactly what i had presumed. darn it.

i don't normally care for metallica. i mean, old metallica is great. then we got to Load and Reload and those things were terrible. then they did St. Anger and said it was an AIC tribute, which pushed me over the edge. but Death Magnetic seems.... not as bad as the other crap they've recently released. that's a good sign i suppose.

the metallica video i got to see last night was entitled "all nightmare long". i do have to admit that the video rocks, and the song didn't make me change the channel. you may think the video starts out slow (or maybe get to be that way somewhere within the first five minutes), but i tag that 4:30-5 minute mark to be where i had initially caught it from, and it starts getting pretty cool. around the six minute mark, the song itself really starts to rock. but seven in, the song gets even better, and there is a headless zombie. by the next minute, you've got a pile of dead bodies. this thing is just over nine minutes long, and it's pretty much a mini-horror movie.

you can take a look at this video here:
http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601688

as a closing thought, though, i just want to clarify that no matter how much metallica doesn't completely suck anymore, i still hate lars ulrich.