Chosen by Monk
It’s only a few short hours until we celebrate our favourite night of the year here at ÜRHQ, and what better way to kick off the festivities with a fright-filled gorefest presented in glorious #HorrorVision and fuelled by a punk metal soundtrack? No, we can’t think of one either…
The brainchild of Municipal Waste guitarists Ryan Waste and Nick Poulos, BAT gives the pair an outlet for their mutual fascination for the darker side of their otherwise fun-filled personae, as well as explore the dirtier side of the speed metal genre. And there is no better exposition of this mutual twinned love than this (in)glorious homage to the age of the “video nasty”, as Ryan explained:
I grew up watching horror movies at a young age, and just like with heavy metal, I became obsessed, delving deeper into the obscure.
In the early 80s, ÜK starch conservative Mary Whitehouse spearheaded a campaign against certain films she deemed unsuitable for viewing at home and coined the term “video nasties”. There was an initial list of 72 “obscene” films on VHS, so of course I had to hunt them down and watch all of them in reverse protest.
I inserted 20 “video nasty” movie titles in the lyrics for ‘Horror Vision’ as a tribute to anti-censorship.
In the music video, we highlight those films plus many more in the horror realm. I called upon fellow fright enthusiast Jim Stramel for his editing skills once again to create this onslaught of terror. We made sure that Mary Whitehouse not only rolls in her grave, but rocks her stiff bones down to hell with this video clip.
- ‘Horror Vision’ is taken from the album ‘Under The Crooked Claw‘, which was released via Nuclear Blast in May.