As I Lay Dying's "Nothing Left" and "The Sound Of Truth"

As I Lay Dying's latest album "An Ocean Between Us" is their most successful album to date. 12 songs of pure Metalcore sounds (and a little bit Melodic Death Metal scents in it), heavy guitar workings of Nick Hipa and Phil Sgrosso are awesome in this album and as always vocals and drums are so uinque. band welcomed Josh Gilbert as a new bass player, who replaced by Clint Norris.

AILD released their very single for this record, "Within Destruction" as a digital single, downloadable through their record lable, Metalblade. and then they released the 2nd single "Nothing Left" and then "The Sound of Truth". Brian Thompson was the director for both of the music videos of those singles. music videos of "Nothing Left" and "the Sound of Truth" are based on a single story that ends in "Nothing Left" and continued to "The Sound of Truth". if you want to know more about the story of the music videos check their web pages at Wikipedia.

But here is something that I want to tell you about the music videos. Brian Thompson, as a director, did his job so well. he used a very simple story (with a simple surprise ending) but he made such a great atmosphere and some stunning dark images with this simple story. so many hardcore / metalcore fans were starring in these two music videos as a follower of the dictator, screaming and yelling, seems ready to do some heavy moshing and hardcore dancing ! the powerful wave of raging is one of the biggest points in these music videos. Both of these music videos remind you of the great masterpiece "The Battleship Potemkin" by "Sergei Eisenstein" (or the silent russian movies like it). Music plays through the videos but it seems you can't hear any sounds from the music videos and you're just watching a silent movie.


"Nothing Left" and "the Sound Of Truth" are enhanced with so much computer generated scenes, but still it didn't hurt the face of the music videos. I remember the beautiful scenes, just like when that infected girl works in a small dark workroom, or when she is stripped her cloths and stands in front of those raging followers (in Nothing Left) and the beautiful final sequence when the old dictator is arrested and confesses in front of the raging people and that big flames fire (in The Sound Of truth).

Costume designing, make-ups, acting and directing are so amazing through these two videos and of course AILD's performance is so powerful as always (but the drummer Jordan Mancino didn't do his amazing windmill headbanging, what he did in their previous music videos!! ;) ).

Watch Nothing Left here
Watch The Sounf Of Truth here