MACHINE HEAD: Watch 'Now I Lay Thee Down' Unedited And Uncensored

October 16, 2007

The "uncensored" and "unedited" five-and-a-half-minute version of MACHINE HEAD's video for the song "Now I Lay Thee Down" has been posted on the band's official web site. It can also be viewed below.

The clip was shot in February and additional footage was filmed in August. Mike Sloat directed, working in various locations around San Francisco, but mostly in and around the Regency Center, a theater built in 1909. According to Roadrunner Records, "All of the backdrops of the play are original to the theater, close to 100 years old and include ornate images of hell, forest, and more.

As for the plot, the band's label says, "the video is a play about a past time in which a strange and grotesque man, who is shunned by society and outcast, decides that he wants to know what it's like to die. He asks his lover, the only person who cares for him, to take his life. Reluctantly, she does. But then she becomes so distraught and miserable about losing her only love that she decides she must take her own life as well to be with him forever. The play ends with the two lovers together again, at last in the afterlife. The curtain drops and the entire cast bows to the audience."

According to Headbanger's Blog, the final gig of MACHINE HEAD and ARCH ENEMY's co-headlining tour with with special guests THROWDOWN and SANCTITY at the Avalon in Los Angeles on Saturday (October 13) was attended by SLAYER guitarist Kerry King, ex-STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and DARK ANGEL drummer Gene Hoglan, FEAR FACTORY guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera, BLEEDING THROUGH keyboardist Marta, ex-EIGHTEEN VISIONS bassist Mick Morris, ex-KITTIE guitarist Lisa Marx and Bam Margera.

MACHINE HEAD closed its set with its first-ever single "Davidian". The song featured ANTHRAX's Scott Ian on guitar, and back-up vocals by ARCH ENEMY growler Angela Gossow, BLEEDING THROUGH singer Brandan Schieppati and members of SANCTITY. During the song, THROWDOWN vocalist Dave Peters and drummer Ben Dussaut hopped onstage and dove into the crowd, and MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel also demonstrated his stagediving prowess.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of MACHINE HEAD's October 13, 2007 performance at the Avalon in Los Angeles:

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