Various Artists
HM Video Magazine Vol. 5
Reviewed by Eric Shirey
For all you metal fans out there, here it is - nothing but the metal. Six videos and band interviews are featured here. The highlights are Living Sacrifice's "Reject," which is black & white, and has great live shots mixed with staged rocking out. Definite MTV quality. Tourniquet's "Crawl to China" is a pretty visually stimulating video. It's got them in some shipping warehouse rocking out. This is pretty close to MTV quality. Screams of Chaos' "Genetic War" is relatively good, with shots of war and nuclear explosions mixed in with the band jamming out. The singer and drummer have some interesting makeup on. The Galactic Cowboys' videos "Feel the Rage" and "Evil Twin" are both very colorful and interesting ideas, but the film quality is not very good. I give them props for their ideas, though. Mortification's video, "Mephibosheth," is not too good. It's very amateurish. Definitely colorful, though. Overall, some of the videos do not really appeal to me. Maybe I'm just spoiled by MTV, but I believe that if you're gonna do it, do it right.