For the reason that creation of MTV, bands and artists have let their creativity run wild with song movies. We’ve observed band performances and excursion photos, lofty brief movies and trippy artwork items – but, regardless of how inventive a band can get, there’s handiest such a lot they are able to do with their very own individuals. So, every now and then, well known artists bust out their telephone e-book and make a couple of calls to enlist well-known faces. Right here, Hammer has compiled the ten easiest song movies cameos through huge steel stars.
Lemmy Kilmister in Foo Combatants – White Limo (2011)
Probably the most steel songs within the Foo Combatants back-catalogue deserved one in every of their maximum steel movies. So, they were given Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister using a white limousine across the town at excessive velocity whilst smoking, working over pedestrians and flirting with Dave Grohl’s spouse. It’s, unsurprisingly, steel as fuck.
Lars Ulrich, Randy Blythe, Rob Halford, and so on. in Corey Taylor – CMFT Will have to Be Stopped (2020)
When Slipknot and Stone Bitter’s Corey Taylor went solo, he employed a military of buddies from around the trade to create one in every of steel’s maximum star-studded movies. From old-school legends like Judas Priest and Metallica to fashionable heroes Halestorm and Babymetal, it looks as if all of the scene got here out to play.
Ozzy Osbourne in Yungblud – The Funeral (2022)
Yungblud has a penchant for the gloomy and gothic, however The Prince Of Darkness’ look in The Funeral was once nonetheless a shocker. The one other thing sudden was once Ozzy Osbourne and spouse/supervisor Sharon working the alt-rocker over, then making peace with it as a result of he’s “only a few fucking poser”.
Jonathan Davis (plus Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and so on.) in Limp Bizkit – Damage Stuff (2000)
Need evidence of Limp Bizkit’s mainstream stature across the flip of the millennium? Glance no additional than Damage Stuff. Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem rock up on digital camera all the way through the sub-three-minute clip, whilst steel’s represented through Korn singer Jonathan Davis. In spite of his penchant for feuds, Fred Durst had some high-profile buddies.
Dave Grohl in Tenacious D – Tribute (2001)
Tenacious D went all out at the make-up after they discovered their satan. Then again, no quantity of purple frame paint and “whippy tail” may disguise the tattoos and tomfoolery of Foo Combatants frontman and metalhead supremo, Dave Grohl, who places in an excellent efficiency because the Tribute’s “glossy demon”.
Myrkur in Lonely Island feat. Michael Bolton – Jack Sparrow (2011)
This one’s extra a cameo in hindsight. Sooner than she changed into the folks/black steel songstress Myrkur, Amalie Bruun confirmed up in comedy rappers Lonely Island’s Jack Sparrow video, enjoying the Jenny to Michael Bolton’s Forrest Gump (simply move with it). It’s a bona fide pause-the-video second for modern day metalheads.
Tom Araya in Suicidal Dispositions – Institutionalized (1984)
Tom Araya has some of the recognisable voices in heavy steel historical past. The again of his head despite the fact that, now not such a lot. So there’s an excellent chance that you simply neglected this one: Mike Muir brushes previous the Slayer legend in an alleyway and, after that, he’s vanished into the night time.
Zack De L. a. Rocha in Run The Jewels – Ooh L. a. L. a. (2020)
Rage Towards The Device’s Zack De L. a. Rocha has nearly transform an honorary member of Run The Jewels over time. So, it was once no wonder to look him pound the pavement with the rap duo all the way through Ooh L. a. L. a.. That they’re strolling via a rise up handiest makes the casting extra very best.
Joe Duplantier in Device Head – Aesthetics Of Hate (2007)
In 2007, Gojira’s momentum was once beginning to steamroll after the cult hit From Mars To Sirius. So, you’ll believe some metalheads hit pause when Device Head’s Aesthetics Of Hate got here onto their TV units and singer/guitarist Joe Duplantier was once status proper in the back of an incensed Robb Flynn.