Five Finger Death Punch have become one of the most dominate forces in heavy metal in recent years. Their two-part album, The Wrong Side of Heaven And The Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1 and 2 debuted at Billboard album chart # 2 and featured two #1 hit singles on Rock Radio (“Lift Me Up” and “Battle Born”) and have combined sales of close to 600,000 units as of March 2014. Today the band debut the video for their current single “The House Of The Rising Sun” on VEVO. Watch the video below:
The vivid music video was filmed in the high deserts of Nevada, directed by the band’s guitarist Zoltan Bathory in conjunction with Thought Pirates Film’s Brian Neal, while Steve Darnell of the famous Welder Up Garage built the cars and handled the set design. Zoltan explains, “This video was an experiment, the initial step toward something we always wanted to do, which is to make a full-length Death Punch movie somewhere down the line. We jumped into this knowing that we’d shoot more footage than we could possibly fit in one music video. We went out there with two helicopters, two gyrocopters, twenty something crazy cars, a big cast and an arsenal of cameras. We ended up with so much amazing material, the hardest task was to compress it down into a 3 minutes video, so we made an extended version with a long intro and we are making an even longer ‘directors cut’ as we speak.
The classic folk song has been come legendary over the years covered by countless musicians, most notably The Animals and Bob Dylan. Five Finger Death Punch are one of the many metal bands which have deviled into their own rendition of the the tune. Giving it a unique hard-rock vibe the band also added some signature time switches to brand their own name on the song. When asked about their take on the song Zoltan added “The song’s lyrics are about gambling and drinking and we wanted to recreate those gun swinging outlaw poker scenes familiar from classic western movies, however I just couldn’t see us riding horses in the video so we shifted eras and went for a Mad Max-like post apocalyptic vibe with the cars and the bikes we ride anyway. We didn’t want any performance footage; the plan was to make the song sort of a soundtrack to a short story.”
The video begins with a remix version of “You” which bleeds into an interesting story-line as the song begins. Extremely well produced and thoughtout “House Of The Rising Sun” could be one of Five Finger Death Punch’s best music videos to date.
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