Since we’re all locked in for the time being, it makes sense that today’s music video of the day should be for Judas Priest’s Locked In.

This video makes about as much sense as any heavy metal band from the 80s did.  Rob Halford is being held prisoner in a medieval castle where he is apparently being tortured by a bunch of living skeletons.  The other members of Judas Priest decide to ride their motorcycles over to the castle and then break in so that they can save him.  Heavy metal videos of the 80s often feel like what you would get if the members of Monty Python had decided to follow up The Meaning of Life with Monty Python’s Mad Max.  That certainly seems to be the case here and the members of the band spend so much time mugging to the camera that there is little doubt that they were in on the joke.  David Coverdale would have taken this seriously but not the members of Judas Priest.

This video was one of the many to be directed by Wayne Isham.  According to his entry at IMDb, Wayne’s motto is “No Wayne, no pain!”

Enjoy!