First video is "Story Of Our Lives" track number three off of "Man's Myth (Vol. 1)" of the Man's Myth Mutant double album from 2005.
Man's Myth (Vol. 1) cover
Mutant Vol. 2 cover
Story Of Our Lives music video
The video begins with two doctors talking to Madrox and Monoxide. The duo doesn't have face paint at first but rather the left half of Madrox is horribly disfigured and the right side of Monoxide is the same. This serves as a reference to the "Freekshow" album cover which shows Madrox and Monoxide sewn together.
And the Twiztid angel
The duo is shaking violently as the doctors speak to them with malicious intent in their voices and eyes. "We can help you" "we can make it better" Twiztid simply keeps shaking not saying a word. The music cuts on there is things being said in a newscast fashion about cops beating people and laughing about it. Then they start rapping Monoxide starts and continues until the chorus. It's switching between them rapping in the half and half disfigurmant makeup in an operating room of sorts, to them rapping in a hall way in red and black face paint with a group of people behind them most notably Blaze Ya Dead Homie and ABK. The chorus kicks in-
"This is the story of our lives
Come and take a look in my eyes
Keep it real and tell me no lies
We've been waiting for you"
During the chorus it switches back and forth from disfigurement to face paint. They are in one of several areas as it switches continually. The primary areas during the chorus and the rest of the song all together is the hall way, the operating room, and in front of large TV's with historical events playing on it. In addition to transitioning between all these areas rapidly during the chorus it has clips of Madrox and Monoxide in booths being electricuted. The electrocution plus the war footage on the big TV immediately maks me think of soviet sleeper agent styled hypnotisim and electro shock therapy used on the mentally ill long ago. From there Madrox starts rapping then Monoxide takes over again then it go's back to the chorus. To end it has Madrox rapping alone just as Monoxide had done in the first part of the song ending with the chorus repeated til it fades. Althoughout the video there is a man in a robot looking suit dancing along side a man in a gorrilla looking suit that has a diver mask in place of the head with a strange face inside. In addition to the men in costume there are several women in skimpy outfits with nice looking bodies dancing seductively but the camera only shows their bodies for a while before revealing a disfigured pig like face.
Second music video is "Hahahahahaha" by Twiztid off of "W.I.C.K.E.D." released in 2008 track four. The name of the album is an acronym, W.I.C.K.E.D. stands for Wish I Could Kill Ever Day.
W.I.C.K.E.D. album cover
HAHAHAHAHAHA music video
Now this music video is like a horror movie just like that of the entire album but this gives you the visual. The video is so good you don't even need to listen to the song to have your wig blown back but believe me you want the full experience. The video starts with random shots of a humble home and the only thing that stands out to me is the religious pamphlets on a table. It goes to a shot of an alarm clock that reads 7:59, it changes to 8:00 and the alarm goes off. Monoxide knocks it onto to the floor thus breaking it and slowly gets up. He is clearly wearing a wig and has his goatee shortened to make him look more presentable as necessary for his role in the video. He gets dressed up in a button up and tie and grooms his hair (wig). He grabs a bible and the pamphlets and heads outside to the snow. At this point it's pretty easy to tell that Monoxide is portraying one of those people that go door to door spreading the word of Jesus. The first house he goes to turns him down but the second house welcomes him in, a young black woman. It immediately cuts to a scene of Monoxide in what is presumably her bedroom with her but they are both soaked in blood she is missing a leg and he's the only one alive. He's smoking a cigarette and its showing clips of him on different parts of the bed smoking his cigarette. The last shot of him with the girl is of him leaning over her dead bodies mouthing the words "I'm gonna fuck you". The next shot is of an elderly woman letting him inside her house and it quickly cuts to him and her sitting on her couch with her dead and covered in cuts. He's busy cleaning and sharpening his knife (which just so happens to belong to the same knife set I have at home-fun fact) then putting it back into his hollowed out bible. Then it goes to the chorus where both Monoxide and Madrox can be seen in a pitch black room with a swinging overhead light as our only means of seeing the two rappers. They are both in their normal face paint but are wearing all black suits with a white tie as was customary during the W.I.C.K.E.D. era. Monoxide is first to sing the chorus.
"I'm laughing like a lunatic,
I'm laughing like a lunatic.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,
I'm laughing like a lunatic,
I'm laughing like a lunatic!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,...
I'm laughing like a lunatic!...
I'm laughing like a lunatic!"
In the midst of the chorus shows clips of Monoxide being invited it another house. The man has piano wire wrapped around and pulled into his throat and Monoxide is eating a bowl of cereal that I imagine the man had out for himself before being killed. Next it shows a newspaper the newspaper is moved to reveal another dead woman with a scalpal like blade stuck in her head. The chorus is over and it starts showing Monoxides final killing just as Madrox begins to rap. Monoxide is drowning a man in a bathtub and it cuts between the killing and the bathtub empty of water with severed limbs in it before it starts showing Madrox's character. Just as Monoxide had embodied a character with it's own distinctive look Madrox also has a costume to embody a character of their own creation. The biggest Madrox ever was was during the W.I.C.K.E.D. era but he is still wearing a fat suit for this video, it doesn't make him significantly bigger but its still enough to know he's wearing one. He also has a fake beard, as his beard looks very different in reality and can be seen in the chorus when they aren't dressed up, and a wig. He is also wearing a fanel jacket and all together looks very different than Monoxide's clean cut persona. When we first see Madrox he is washing his hand and looking in the mirror. Next he is opening the his front door to see a delivery man with a package for him who he promptly invites in. It switches to a set of basement stairs with hands reaching out (this isn't revilant to the video just the song so it isn't legitimate) then to Madrox pulling the delivery mans bodily through his kitchen and down to the basement leaving a trail of blood along the way. Now in his basement he is looking through his tools pulling out a knife at first then a hacksaw which he uses to then cut the man's head off. Next it shows Madrox standing in the parking lot of a mall but then switches back to him in his basement putting the severed head into a box and sloppily wrapping it up with tape. Another person is at his door this time a pizza man, he rings the door bell and Madrox quickly looks up still in his basement having just finished wrapping up the severed head. He answers the door and again invites the man in, next Madrox is in on a recliner eating the pizza and watching television with the man in another recliner disemboweled. He is laughing and pointing at the TV while talking to the dead man. It cuts to the chorus with a few quick clips of Madrox eating pizza. The chorus ends and the final scene ensues with the song over. A man is walking up to Madrox's character's house, the door opens and there Madrox is with a smile creasing his face at the sight of another victim at his door step. The camera turns to the man on his door step and it just so happens to be Monoxide's character who in turn has a smile creasing his face as well. The door shuts and the camera slowly zooms out til the end of the video leaving the mystery of what transpired after the two killer's worlds collided. What happened when a killer that gets himself invited into homes met a killer that invites people into his home?
The third and final music video is from a more recent Twiztid release "A New Nightmare" that was not with Twiztid's long time label Psychopathic Records but rather released independently until the recent creation of their own record label "Majik Ninja Entertainment". This song is "Sick man" track number five on "A New Nightmare"
A New Nightmare album cover
Sick Man music video
This song features long time friend Blaze Ya Dead Homie and the video itself features appearances by Kane Hodder known widely for his portrayal of Jason Vorhees in four of the Friday the 13th movies and Said Haig who played Captian Spaulding in the cult classic Rob Zombie movie House of 1000 corpses and the sequel The Devil's Rejects. The video starts with Madrox at the bar Monoxide in what looks like deep contemplation smoking a blunt possible mulling over suicide by the looks of it and Blaze pulling into the parking lot of a convenience store. Madrox is taking shots of what appears to be expensive alcohol with a friend before he heads off to his car. Monoxide is having a blunt looking rather somber before grabbing his car keys and also heading off to his car. Blaze is inside the store picking up some Newport menthols and a forty ounce before heading off to his truck. It starts raining where Madrox is at just as Kane Hodder, wearing coveralls and dead body looking makeup covering half his face, grabs him from behind bangs his head off his own car and drags him away. Next he grabs Monoxide from behind by the throat with rope from Monoxide's backseat. For his last victim Blaze Ya Dead Homie he plays possum as though he was hit by Blaze's truck and seriously injured leading Blaze out of his truck to be kidnapped. One by one it shows clips of Kane bringing them into his basement in three different intervals, bags on heads and ape around wrists. All throughout the video there are clips of Sid Haig playing chess with himself, symbolic depending on your view of such, to me it coincides with the men's capture, torture, and deaths. Now that they've been capture Kane now starts torturing them one by one, and I keep saying that because I don't think the three men see each other at all during and its even possible they've assumed the roles of men that don't know each other. After a gruesome torture scene all three men are dead and the song has ended. Kane makes a phone call to Sid only saying "Its done" Sid is pleased and knocks over the king on his chess set right before it cuts to all three bodies and Kane in Sid's office. Like I said before the chess set seemed to embody the lives of the men. I want you to be sure to pay attention to this last part where Sid is talking to the dead bodies so I'm not devulging too much. Sid says "I just wanna let you know what I'm about to give you is priceless" he then cuts his hand and drips a white liquid onto the faces of the dead men. Now my first interpretation was that this video was going to serve as an origins for the "Triple Threat", the Triple Threat is what Twiztid and Blaze call themselves when they rap together, now that Twiztid has their own label with Blaze as their first addition to the roster it seems more than likely that they will follow in the steps of their long time label Psychopathic Records and create groups among their roster just as ICP, Twiztid, and Blaze formed the Psychopathic Records supergroup "Dark Lotus" (even now after Twiztid and Blaze's depature) amongst other combinations of artists on the label to create new entities. Over all this is a great song and another movie like music video just like "HAHAHAHAHAHA".
That should wrap it up I suppose
Peace -(insert fake alias here)
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