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[davidn]

Oh, for goodness' sake, Heavenly. I just found this:

Video for the unusually-cased Heavenly - FullMoon

It follows pretty much the same traditions as the album cover (yes, don't look at it at work). Could you be any more French? Honestly. However, the new... visual approach seems to be working, if the number of comments along the lines of "I've no idea who they are, but I like them already!" is anything to go by.

There's also one for Lost in Your Eyes, which is very sort of firework Bohemian Rhapsody-styled, but I really don't think that the Eyes in it are what they were hoping viewers would be lost in.

Even though the production values here are higher than average, this is really sort of embarrassing. And now the lyrics make less sense than ever.

Comments

[kjorteo]

Let's see... Blind Guardian somehow successfully made a good film noir detective-style video for Another Stranger Me. Within Temptation (surprisingly enough, since this is the same band and same album that gave us the ridiculous Angels video) did a nice little tear-jerker video for Memories. (The only thing at all wrong with it the fact that the morphing technology between old and young Sharon is slightly below the lofty standards set by Willow, but that only happens once each in the beginning and end of the video, and everything else is solid.) Flag in the Ground is also decent by power metal standards.

Hmm... also, I guess Sonata Arctica gets credit for Paid in Full, even though it's nothing but one giant band shot. This is because I have seen bands try to make "nothing but one giant band shot" videos and somehow manage to mess even that up, through things like questionable costumes and set design or questionable facial hair.

Also, Ben Sotto will save this patient!!

[davidn]

The "by power metal standards" part is what worries me! I have a paranoid feeling that most videos in this genre are so appalling that I've become desensitized into thinking that the ones that nudge their way into "all right" territory are really good. But to my eyes, at least, the first four that you mentioned are some of the best of the bunch, even if I have a nagging feeling that other people might find the acting of Flag in the Ground rather corny and that Tony Kakko is continually reeling about like he has a severe inner ear balance problem.