Music Video for "All Nightmare Long"

The newish music video for Metallica's song "All Nightmare Long" has generated some major buzz across the horror community online. I find it worth reposting here for its rather creative cross-genre bits of darkness bridging the gaps between weird horror, sci-fi, alternative history, and zombie apocalypses. The video tells the unusual story of the downfall of the United States at the hands of Soviet experiments with a reanimating spore originally uncovered after the Tunguska event. Re-animating? Yes, it seems there is even a hint of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West and his disastrous results at trying to revive dead tissue in the rock group's video.

If you're not a fan of Metallica's style, then it's likely still worth your time to turn the volume down and substitute your own song while letting the footage role. The musicians have definitely struck many pleasant notes of the strange and hip with this video. Alternate history, conspiratorial chemtrails, communist nostalgia, and zombies: what's not to like?




-Grim Blogger