Flick Friday - Between the Buried and Me, Lair of the Minotaur, Keep of Kalessin

by crustcake gerf (NYC)

The folks at MetalInjection just posted some interview and performance footage from last November's Saints and Sinners festival, including this great feature on Between the Buried and Me.

Between the Buried and Me - Interview and Live Footage:



Buy: Between the Buried and Me - Colors [Amazon]

Lair of the Minotaur have really upped the ante with their very NSFW new video for "War Metal Battle Master." MetalSucks' Vince Neilstein sums it up:

I mean for fuck’s sake, the video features men in armor pulverizing each other with enormous swords and other assorted medieval weaponry, blood spewing from decapitated torsos, and naked chicks eating flesh off of severed legs and dead bodies.

Lair of the Minotaur - "War Metal Battle Master" (NSFW):



Download: Lair of the Minotaur - "Horde of Undead Vengeance" [MP3]
Buy: Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master [Amazon]

We love Black Metal (the fake commercial kind, anyway-- we leave the legit stuff to Black Metal Jim) and in our opinion corpse paint really adds to the, um, 'evilness' of the whole live experience. But the intro sequence to this video for Keep of Kalessin's "Crown of the Kings" ruins the magick (see what we did there?) a bit. It's like watching a warrior suit up for battle; suddenly he starts to put on eyeliner? Maybe that should be done off camera? We'd rather just assume the band was so evil that they actually wake up with black eye sockets. But hey, Keep of Kalessin recently got added to the Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir tour, so they must be doing something right in the makeup department.

Keep of Kalessin - "Crown of the Kings":



Buy: Keep of Kalessin - Armada [Amazon]

This clip has been floating around for a bit, but it's amusing enough to post here for those of you who may have missed it. It's just too bad it's air, and not actually death metal that gets this little pup all riled up. Thanks to NiNjASLiCE for this one!

Death Metal Puppy:



Any of you metalheads know what song that is? First person to email crustcakecontests@gmail.com with the correct answer gets a copy of The Sword's brand new hunk o' metal, Gods of the Earth.