My bands first video clip!

[tom once dead]

Last night my band released our first video clip. Filmed over 2 days in a few different places. We did it on a budget of $0 and had a really good time doing it even though it was hard work.
Here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itXsJyszWEI

Be warned it is metal, and the director/camera man likes crabcore

[Plays_For_Dog]

Damn good job.

[thetawaves]

Very good.

though @1:10, is that blood all over the strings?!

[tom once dead]

Yeah, the guitarist sliced his finger open. We thought we would run with it seeing as the song is called Bleed.

[jordie65]

very well done mate! let me know if you guys get down to melb ill come check you out!

i just dont get the crab thing at all..it looks so unnatural! but whatever i dont really know anything about the scene, just enjoyed the song/video!

[Joe Nerve]

Not a fan of the music at all. I think that was awesome! Like the lyrics a lot too. Actually, I am a fan of that music. Could never handle the cookie monster stuff though. I think yoos guys have a bright future ahead of yas. Best of luck.

[loopee]

I couldn't figure out what the lyrics were.....musicianship was pretty good but it's not my scene at all....frankly, I couldn't handle it for more than a minute.....now I know what my parents were talking about back in the 60's when I grew up........I just don't understand this type of music, but it was well done nonetheless.....

[Joe Nerve]

Originally Posted by loopee

I couldn't figure out what the lyrics were.....

Nobody can. They're written underneath.

[fenderhutz]

Pros- the band sounds good, the video quality for the budget is unreal.

Cons- I was actually laughing at the overuse of random pole dance squatting I agree with the post above, it looks contrived and very unnatural.

[tom once dead]

Thanks for the replies!

The 'crabbing' stuff feels unnatural. My legs were killing me the next day, I normally just do straight head banging but all the metal kids think it looks awesome.

We actually spent a lot of time rewriting the lyrics when we recorded the song which was also self produced and cost us nothing.

[osd]

The music is very tight, and video is really well executed. I actually think there should have been more shots of everyone together, and less of one person on a staircase, to accentuate the tightness of the integration.

I would have put more blood in it too. Maybe roadkill or something. ;-)

What was the studio setup for the recording?

Rock on!

[tom once dead]

We recorded the song in 3 different places. The drums were done in a big open room at one of the guitards parents house. The vocals were done in a studio in the same building we filmed most of the clip in. And the guitars/bass were done at the guitards home studio. Instead of just micing my amp as and recording that signal I recorded the line signal then used a re-amp box to play it back through my amp and also through some software tones. I think there were 5 different tracks for the bass each with different eq settings/with pedals etc.

[osd]

Sounds really good, and I'm not even a big fan of the genre.

[Will006]

yeah the video quality is excellent

[tom once dead]

Bump for for video quality to budget rating.

[kringle77]

Not big on the video but thats a really good tune. It has a fresh sound to it. It's tough to make extreme metal stand out now. There are a lot of bands doing it. I usually just listen to Nile or Morbid Angel now.

[Shifty eyes]

This video is pretty amazing haha shared with MANY friends, cant wait for you too get bigger and come down to sydney id be there with a bunch of my mates =) is there a stream of your ep anywhere? *listening to the song now for the 50th time during school on our laptops lol*

[tom once dead]

Thanks!
You can steam and download the song off our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/CHOM/129008713806759 if you go to the band profile tab you should be able to download it from there.