Music Video Review - Bears Killing Bears - Too Familiar

http://vimeo.com/24005350  <<----- The video :) 

 

                                                                     ^---- The Band :) 

Up and coming talent will be another aspect to the ‘daveygreviews’ blog, and with that announcement, I bring you the first music video release from Leeds based rock outfit, ‘Bears Killing Bears’.

Once again, as a purist, I believe a live music video should be included in a bands portfolio as early as possible. It should capture their spirit, realize their drive and show fans what to expect from a live performance. Given the abundance of early potential that ‘Bears’ have, the first music video would be a delicate and difficult operation. The spirit of the band would mean a video that gets right amongst them in full flow. This video has achieved all of the above.

Bears managed to enrol the senior photographer of Whitelines Snowboard Magazine, Dan Medhurst, who shoots the band playing in their Hyde-Park-student-house-basement. It begins with said basement, barely lit, and full of the bands fans, a tribal-like gathering of their disciples whos faces are painted white with skull-like black eyes. It’s eerie, hardcore and brilliant. Medhurst puts himself dead centre and follows the proceedings as if he himself were moshing as hard as every one else in the room. A great idea to capture Bear’s spirit.

The video is a four-minute onslaught that is hard to take your eyes away from, particularly with the lead singer Andy Harley who has the charisma and voice that will set this band apart from others. The fact the band share the skull-like face paint symbolise the band are as much fans of the music they create as every-one else in that cramped basement. The oneness between band and fan is evident.

The prospect that Bear’s could be the best thing to happen to this brand of British Metal since ‘Gallows’ is all to obvious now, and the luck seems to be on their side with Dan Medhurst on board. (A glimpse of a Gallows t-shirt clad fan in the ‘Too Familiar’ video represents a wealth of potential fans yet to discover Bears Killing Bears).

In producing Bear’s first video, Medhurst achieves his objectives and the viewer will be enticed to delve deeper into Bear’s brand of metal. It will be interesting to see where Bears Killing Bears can go creatively with their music video offerings in the future, but for now, the musical offerings provide ample satisfaction. A full review of their first EP is on the way. 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bears-Killing-Bears/260275548987 <----more bears music on ere.