Demons (1985, dir by Lamberto Bava)
For today’s horror song of the day, we have Demon, a track from the soundtrack for the 1985 film, Demons. This song was composed and performed by Claudio Simonetti, who is best known as the keyboardist of Goblin.
The music video, incidentally, was directed by Michele Soavi, who also appeared in Demons as the mysterious masked man handing out free movie tickets.
Who directed the video for Garbageman? I haven’t been able to find the information online, probably because of how old the video is. Do any of you know?
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There are actually two versions of this video. Both of them feature model Rana Kennedy as the mysterious woman looking over Alice Cooper. One version features shots where the woman is meant to be topless. (A body double was used in those shots). The MTV-friendly version excises the toplessness and is less focused on torture than the first version.
Director Nigel Dick was one of the big music video directors of the MTV era. He worked with everyone who was anybody. Alice Cooper definitely was and still is somebody. It’s funny how he went from being the rocker that parents feared to being a beloved cultural institution and he did it while, for the most part, still remaining true to his original act and persona. All the kids who used to get yelled at for listening to Cooper grew up and kept listening to him and Alice turned out to be a pretty smart guy.
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Every metal band needs at least one room with all black walls in which to perform. Fortunately, Savage Messiah found their room and the result rocks!
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This song is from Unprocessed’s 2019 album, Artificial Void. I respect any band that put out an official video where they just play and let the music speak for itself.
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As the third day of Horrorthon draws to a close, how about an AMV?
Song: Crazy In The Night by Kim Carnes
Anime: Gakkou no Kaidan
Creator: rspectcopyrightmyass (As always, please be sure to check out this creator’s channel)
Past AMVs of the Day
“Careful what you wish for” is a frequent horror theme. We all know that, when the monkey paw curls its finger, we might think it’s a positive thing but the opposite usually turned out to be true. Did you wish for someone in a box? Who wished for someone in a box?
This music video was one of the many Bad Omens videos directed by Orie McGinness, who has also done videos for Warbringer, Dayshell, Afterlife, Gideon, American Sin, and a host of others.
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In 1999, Fear Factory and Gary Numan teamed up to give a new spin to an 80s classic. This video plays more to the horror element of Numan’s song, which is something that I think is often overlooked.
John S. Bartley, the credited director, worked primarily as a cinematographer. Among the television series that he worked on: The X-Files, Bates Motel, iZombie, and Vikings. He also worked on the 2002 spider horror film, Eight-Legged Freaks.
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Odin was one of the many hair metal bands that tried to make it big in the 80s. They were a part of the same L.A. scene that launched everyone from Poison to Guns ‘N’ Roses to Mötley Crüe. Today, they are probably best-remembered for being prominently featured in the 1988 documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. While bands like Poison and RATT and musicians like Ozzy Osbourne appeared in the documentary as battle-weary veterans, Odin was meant to represent the up-and-coming band that was on the verge of breaking through. This video came out a few years before Odin was featured in Decline.
Who directed this video? I’m not sure. I even resorted to asking Google A.I. Google A.I. replied with:
Mark Romanek is a pretty well-known director so if he started out his career directing videos for Odin, that would be a pretty big deal. However, every list of credits that I could find for Romanek online listed neither Odin nor this video. The video was released in 1985. Both Wikipedia and the IMDb list Romanek’s first music video as being 1986’s Sweet Bird of Truth by The The. I could be wrong but I’m 99.9% certain that Mark Romanek did not direct this video.
Odin never did break through and broke up shortly after the release of the documentary. (They may have gotten more screentime then most of the veterans but what most people remembered from that movie was Ozzy making breakfast and Chris Holmes drinking beer.) Maybe one reason they didn’t really break through is because, according to this video, their drummer could blow people up just by looking at them. It’s not a good idea to blow up your own fans.
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Love and Rockets is definitely one of those 80s bands that should have been bigger than they were. Basically made up of every member of Bauhaus except for Peter Murphy, Love and Rockets was responsible for some of the best songs of the decade.
No New Tales To Tell is from their third studio album, Earth, Sun, Moon. Thanks to this music video, which was put in heavy rotation on MTV, the song did manage to reach number 18 on the U.S. charts. The video was directed by the very prolific Tony van den Ende and it features a few shots of the band in their Bubblemen costumes. (The Bubblemen were a side project for several members of the band. They performed while dressed as friendly bees.)
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Through the Shattered Lens 