GRIM REAPER's 'Fear No Evil' Revisited In WEEZER Clip: Video Available
August 29, 2005WEEZER's video for the track "We Are All on Drugs", which is essentially a cleverly re-edited version of the "Fear No Evil" video by GRIM REAPER, the semi-popular '80s British heavy metal band fronted by powerhouse vocalist Steve Grimmett (later of ONSLAUGHT and LIONSHEART),has been posted online at this location.
According to MTV.com, the video features the leather-clad rockers storm the stronghold of an evil wolfman and liberate his human slaves with the power of REAPER guitarist Nick Bowcott's axe and pug-faced frontman Grimmett's pipes.
In a posting on Weezer.com, the band explained that the whole thing kind of started as a joke, and spiraled out of control from there.
"This video (let's call it 'We Are All on Drugs V1.0') is a cleverly re-edited version of the 'Fear No Evil' video by GRIM REAPER," the post reads. "The video was prepared as an experiment and was immediately embraced as funny and strange — not a bad match for WEEZER. Mucho thanks and props to GRIM REAPER for letting WEEZER use the footage."
The video is actually just "We Are All on Drugs" played over the REAPER clip, with a few edits made (WEEZER frontman Rivers Cuomo's vocals now pseudo-sync up with Grimmett's mouth and his guitar solo now matches up with Bowcott's, etc.).
The GRIM REAPER version of "Drugs" has only apparently been shown in "international" markets (i.e. the U.K. and Canada).
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