Overview – Boom, a music video released by System Of A Down, follows the band as they marched in a peace protest against the Iraq War and shows various protests from all across the world in protest of this war. The lyrics are quite a bit darker then I …

Overview – Lonely Day, a second single and music video released by System Of A Down for Hypnotize, the second half of their double album, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, is a track which is primarily led from start to finish by Daron Malakian. All throughout Mezmerize and Hypnotize, Malakian had began to …

Overview – Wake Up Dead, a music video and single released by Megadeth for their second record, Peace Sells… But Whose Buying, is the first single ever released by the band and a song that should certainly introduce a listener to the aggressive sounds of Megadeth. To be totally …

Overview – Hangar 18, another of the most well known songs in Megadeth’s entire catalogue is yet another song where Friedman and Mustaine prove why they work so well together. Besides all of the excellent guitar riffs and solos to this song, the lyrical content is actually quite interesting …

Overview – Holy Wars… The Punishment Due, the lead off track of Megadeth’s most acclaimed record, Rust In Peace, is only one of nine examples of why this album is praised to highly. Although not the only reason why this album was so good, but definitely one of the …

*Just a note to anyone who read my last two reviews on the music videos for Peace Sells and Wake Up Dead. For some reason I kept saying Marty Friedman’s name rather than Chris Poland. I’m not really sure what I was thinking since Friedman didn’t join Megadeth until …

Overview – Peace Sells, another music video and single released by Megadeth for their second effort, Peace Sells… But Whose Buying, showcases the band continuing on with an aggressive tone, but more mature lyrics on this track compared to the previous single, Wake Up Dead. Peace Sells is one …

Overview – Symphony Of Destruction, one of a couple singles and music videos released by Megadeth for their fifth album, Countdown To Extinction, features Mustaine attacking and criticizing The United States government, particularly the president. Mustaine argues that society places too much power in the hands of a president, …

Overview – Sweating Bullets, another single and music video released by Megadeth for their fifth record, Countdown To Extinction, is a song whose lyrics deal with a mental disorder, dissociative identity disorder to be specific. Although I do find issues with the mind to be extremely interesting, I really …

Overview – Skin O’ My Teeth, another one of the four music videos and singles Megadeth released for their fifth record, Countdown To Extinction, is actually a song which has a darker meaning to it then I originally thought. I never used to think very much of this song, …

Overview – Foreclosure Of A Dream, another single released by Megadeth for their critically acclaimed fifth release, Countdown To Extinction, would be the one track on the record that I would choose to call the power ballad. Up until I just read about the track I didn’t know that …

Overview – High Speed Dirt, a music video released by Megadeth for their fifth effort, Countdown To Extinction, is a song and music video focused all about skydiving. It’s interesting that Megadeth chose to not release this song as a single yet still make a music video for it. …

I love A Fire Inside’s Music video for Prelude and Miss Murder. Davey Havok and Jade Pudget are so hot.Davey Havok is a great poet. I love they way he writes he lyrics. The Prelude song is like a lullaby. The girl putting the paper in her mouth, and …

Overview – Toxicity, a third music video released by System Of A Down for their second album of the same name is pretty much a performance music video but it has a few twists thrown into it. Rather than be a straight performance video, certain sections of this music …

Overview – They Say, the first music video released by Scars On Broadway for promotion of their debut album is a music video that is broken up into a performance half and then random clips from throughout society as well. I have to admit that I was extremely anxious …

Overview – World Long Gone, the second music video and single released by Scars On Broadway is pretty much a performance music video, however there’s an audience to this performance, and these audience members carry the meaning of the song. I like this concept because it isn’t just a …

Overview – Spiders, a music video released by System Of A Down for promotion of their debut self titled album is a song and a music video that I’ll admit I really didn’t like at first. I’ll admit that I’m still not really a big fan of the music …

Overview – Chop Suey, another music video and single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, is one of their more well known songs, and for good reason I’d say. The song has a lot of energy behind it yet it still has some softer …

Overview – Aerials, the first single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, returns the band to very metaphorical lyrics and video that they introduced on certain singles, Spiders and Sugar in particular. I suppose that if System Of A Down were to have something …

Overview – War, as it’s name suggests is a song all about War, a topic that System Of A Down has explored multiple and various times throughout their career, probably at least once on each album. Generally I’d get sick about listening to the same topic if it kept …

Overview – Sugar, a second music video and single released by System Of A Down for their self-titled debut record is a track that I feel represents the band a bit better than how the first music video, Spiders, did. From the start to the finish of this track …

When playing guitar,Tone is important and the 10 band equalizer pedal by Mxr really gets the job done. It increases the total output control of all your frequencies on the guitar and in my opinion, adds a lot of high end and more gain for serious rocking out. Not …

Sainthood is Tegan and Sara’s most recently released studio album. As a fun fact, it features the first two tracks ever that both twins collaborated to write, namely “Hell” and “The Cure.” The album is a throwback to their earlier work, sort of like a mix between So Jealous …

Overview – Until It Sleeps, the first music video released by Metallica for their album Load, is significantly different from any of the previous music videos that they had released up to this point in their career. In fact, just about everything about not only the video but also …

Overview – 21st Century Breakdown, the latest music video released for the album of the same name is a music video that goes with an approach that Green Day never went with previously, they approach it by animating the video through graffiti. The music video still follows the traditional …

Overview – East Jesus Nowhere, the third music video released by Green Day in support of 21st Century Breakdown is a song that takes on the hypocrisy of religion and a video that tracks Green Day throughout their 21st Century Breakdown tour. To be honest, East Jesus Nowhere probably …

Overview – Down In It, the first single and music video released by Nine Inch Nails for their debut record, Pretty Hate Machine, takes the chaos of the song and matches it with a video. Although this sounds appealing, at least to me, the execution in the music video …

Overview – Head Like A Hole, the second music video and single released by Nine Inch Nails for their debut record Pretty Hate Machine goes in a similar direction as the music video for Down In It, but the execution and the overall is much better with Head Like …

Overview – Frantic, a music video released by Metallica on St. Anger, is a music video that focuses on the idea of what would a person do if they could get their life back after their death. The question is would they live their life in a better manner …

Overview – Broken, Beat, and Scarred, the third music video released by Metallica for their latest album, Death Magnetic, is a music video that is made up completely of live clips from concerts Metallica played throughout 2008 and 2009 on the World Magnetic Tour. After two pretty poor videos …

Overview – The Day That Never Comes, the first video released by Metallica for the album Death Magnetic, is a video that takes place in an Eastern setting and goes from an approach that Metallica really isn’t gone with before. I do remember an interview where James Hetfield stated …

Overview – One, the first music video ever released by Metallica is a video that goes back and forth between the band playing the song and a story to follow the lyrics of it. I know that a lot of controversy is associated with this video because Metallica was …

AC/DC Plug Me In is a DVD box set of AC/DC’s performances and music videos throughout the years. I’m a big fan of AC/DC and this was a must have for me! I literally spent about 4 hours watching all of the videos and behind the scenes …

Overview – Working Class Hero, Green Day’s cover of John Lennon’s classic work was recorded for the purposes of people who were forced to leave Darfur and I assume, to spread general awareness. I suppose that I would consider this the second song that Green Day recorded for the …

Overview – The Saints Are Coming, a music video and single released by Green Day in collaboration with U2 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina is certainly a power song and a power video to go with it. Although I really like Green Day, I’m not a huge fan …

Overview – Jesus Of Suburbia, the final music video released by Green Day for their album American Idiot would have to be the one video throughout all of Green Day’s career that I can call my personal favorite. I honestly believe that this is Green Day’s most ambitious music …

Overview – Wake Me Up When September Ends, the fourth music video released for American Idiot by Green Day makes commentary against the United States going into Iraq. The music video definitely returns to the form of a performance and story music video, this time the story is extremely …

Overview – Holiday, the third music video released by Green Day for their album American Idiot is pretty much the prequel to the music video, and song, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. I’m not really sure why Green Day chose to release Boulevard of Broken Dreams before Holiday since Holiday …

Overview – 21 Guns, the ballad of 21st Century Breakdown is one song that at first I really didn’t like it much at all, but after listening to it since the release of the album, I have to say that it’s probably one of my favorite songs on the …

Overview – Know Your Enemy, the first single and music video released by Green Day for their latest record 21st Century Breakdown features simple parts and structure yet still very catchy music in the song. I’ll admit that when I first heard Know Your Enemy, I really didn’t think …

Overview – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, the second music video released by Green Day for their album American Idiot goes in the opposite direction that the first video, the title track, went with. Also, compared to the video which was released after this one, Holiday, the video for Boulevard …

Overview – Brain Stew/Jaded is a music video that combines two tracks from Insomniac and makes them appear as if it is one song in the music video. Just as the songs sound different in tone and feel, the music videos for the two music videos are quite contrasting …

Overview – Stuck With Me, the second music video released for Green Day’s album Insomniac is definitely an interesting concept for a video and I personally love the music video of this song, but I’ll explain the video itself later. The song seems to deal with feeling out of …

Overview – Geek Stink Breath, the fourth music video released by Green Day marks the first music video for their forth album, Insomniac. Geek Stink Breath still has that very catchy vocal melody and style that Green Day had on the three music videos from Dookie which were Longview, …

Overview – Hitchin’ A Ride, the first music video released by Green Day for their album Nimrod is a music video that focuses primarily on a performance video with the band playing the song in a theater. To be honest, I thought Nimrod had some pretty good songs on …

Overview – Walking Contradiction, the fourth music video released by Green Day for their album Insomniac shows the band in yet another hilarious music video. The music video for Walking Contradiction sort of reminds me of the music video for When I Come Around because both of the music …

Overview – American Idiot, the first music video released by Green Day in support of the album of the same title shows the band at a level of new songwriting and shows that they emerged from the time after Warning as being stronger and better than ever, musically, lyrically, …

Overview – Warning, the second music video released by Green Day for support of the album of the same name is another music video where Green Day once again demonstrate their sense of humor. I have to say that I’m really not a huge fan of the entire Warning …

Overview – Macy’s Day Parade, the final music video released by Green Day in promotion of Warning is a video that I really don’t understand the point of. I honestly hope that I’m missing something huge about this video because after just watching it a few times, I just …

Overview – Waiting, the third music video released by Green Day in promotion of their album Warning would have to be what I would consider an unneeded music video. The song Waiting itself is a pretty mediocre song in my opinion and the music video would have to fall …