Indeed, if you’re at work or if you have young’uns hovering about, then you might want to hold off on hitting play for the time being. Despite using clips from Umberto Lanzi’s 1980 cannibal film Eaten Alive! (Mangiati Vivi!) as well as Antonio Margheriti’s Cannibal Apocalypse, which also came out in 1980, the video for Gruesome‘s “Savage Land” truly belongs among the most explicit music videos. Yes, it has bodies being torn apart, entrails being pulled from bodies, prisoners being force fed human body parts, eyes being gouged out, and much more. Yeah, if you’re eating, you probably don’t want to watch this.
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Featuring members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation, and Derketa, Gruesome pays homage to death metal’s most celebrated founding American acts, Death. As such, their debut full-length, Savage Land, released earlier this week via Relapse Records, is a delightfully punishing display of late-’80s/early-’90s Florida-styled death metal that keeps the true sound and spirit of Chuck Schuldiner and Death alive.
About the video, guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey said:
The kind folks at Relapse put together a really cool clip video for the title track of the Gruesome album. The video perfectly captures the violence and gore of the tune and takes me back to the early days of my teens when I devoured gore flicks and the first three Death albums with equal enthusiasm. This video is definitely not safe for work and not for the squeamish. Enjoy!
Bon appetite!
Rock Hard \m/
