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 Before seeing the video, I had heard the song "Firefight", and I was pleasantly surprised. Yes, once again the group sounds like they continued their studies under Children of Bodom university, but the song takes on a life of it's own and has a unique feel to it that the previous album seriously lacked. Thoughts of the band Destroy Destroy Destroy fluttered around in my skull, and still kind of do, but nowhere near as bad as one might expect. But, it was a pleasant surprise to see that a video was made, especially one of this caliber. The word firefight can mean various things, but the definition clearly being used by the band for this song is "A firefight between two combating groups with firearms is called a battle". The video itself follows that concept nicely. Of course, the video has the general footage of the band performing in front of a crowd, but the whole concept appears to be Blackguard being the dominant force in this world, though it's unclear if that's in an underground movement against the status quo kind of story, while another force stands to oppose Blackguard. There's some CG footage of missiles being launched and someone that appears to be flying with someone watching news of the band performing. Eventually, a hooded supervillain clad in black is seen rising into the air, as mentioned, and oddly looks like WWE's Paul Bearer, just thinner, attacking the city, but no one seems to care because Blackguard is playing! Except for the guy sitting at his tv watching the madness while smoking and looking like the definition of comic book renegade cool. Sadly, as a huge super hero fan myself (with a large comic book collection I still add to to this day, mostly Marvel Comics related, stemming back twenty years) I felt, even for a music video, it wasn't really mapped out enough. You have the obligatory badass watching the world go to hell with Blackguard on stage. You have the thin Paul Bearer antagonist setting fire to the town literally out of nowhere. Missiles are flying before this...why? Were they attacking this man in a black cloak? And what was with the airplanes that seemed to go nowhere and just literally appear on the screen for no reason. There's no real conclusion outside of a gun shot to a tv screen either. It's an interesting, stylish video that plays out into today's concepts of super heroes and super villains, and it held my interest, both as a metal fan and a nerd, but no conclusion. Perhaps in another video? But, chances are good, it won't happen. Oh well. Either way, the video is good, and I did enjoy it for what it was. It also got me pumped to check out the promotional version the label sent me for review even quicker then I had intended to, so perhaps a review for this release will be made available earlier then I planned. It's worth checking out if you're a fan, and if you have yet to see it, you can watch it below and try to figure out exactly what is going on in the video. But, there's one perplexing question that makes no sense and makes me cry absolute bullshit to this story: The world is under rule by Blackguard in this video, but who the hell would rise up against them or any metal band leading the world?
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