EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE: NEW VIDEOS FROM PRIMAL ROCK REBELLION AND DEATH GRIPS

We’re going off our usual beaten path of metallic extremity in this post, with two brand new videos from Primal Rock Rebellion and Death Grips. I thought both were worth watching, and so here they are. We’ll get back to our usual diet of gut rumbling music later today.

PRIMAL ROCK REBELLION

SikTh is no more (though a reunion could still happen), but SikTh’s Mikee Goodman is very much still alive and kicking. His two-man band Primal Rock Rebellion (formed with Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith) released a debut album earlier this year called Awoken Broken.

This morning I saw that PRR had released a new music video for a track from the album, “Tortured Tone”, and I decided to check it out. Goodman himself conceived, cast, and directed the clip, and it’s a visual feast. It includes a log cabins, woodland tranquility, seascape vistas, rainy cobble-stoned hills, Goodman and Smith performing in a huge bright field, a pretty girl, and a bit of creepy stop-motion animation.

As noted, the song isn’t the usual NCS fare, but it eventually pulls out some metal grit and heft, and it’s melodically memorable. Here you go:
 

Tortured Tone from Primal Rock Rebellion on Vimeo.

DEATH GRIPS

We’ve written so much about the peculiar controversies surrounding Death Grips‘ new free album NO LOVE DEEP WEB‘s that I’ll skip the rehash and go straight to the dog meat. And by that I mean the band’s new video for “World of Dogs”.  It’s all suicide.