Synchronized stage moves
Synchronized stage moves are hilarious. I can just imagine Amon Amarth rehearsing circle headbanging in unison. “I’ll stand here. You stand over there. No, dummy, we do it counterclockwise!” The result? The “Runes to My Memory” video. The synchronized guitar flip at 0:58 in Attack Attack!’s “Stick Stickly” video has become legendary. Judas Priest’s “Hot Rockin'” video, aside from being literally flamingly homoerotic, has unusually fast synchronized guitar waving at 2:40. When Cephalic Carnage play “Black Metal Sabbath” live, they often do slow synchronized guitar waving that evokes a rotating lawn sprinkler. I saw this once and literally doubled over laughing.
Chimaira have perhaps the cheesiest synchronized stage moves ever. Their song “Severed” seems to be a showcase for choreographed shenanigans. This first video, which I would guess comes from the band’s nu-metal years, features synchronized jumps. They occur at 0:42, 1:17, 2:03, and 2:14.
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2kwCV-lFVQ4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0
A second video features synchronized violent guitar waving at 0:51.
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/eLbBQ1nywug&hl=en&fs=1&
At some point, the band must have had a conversation like this:
Member 1: Um, I think we should drop the jumps from “Severed.”
Member 2: Yeah, we’ve been doing them for two years now.
Member 3: No way, man, it looks cool when we all do them together.
Member 4: Wait, how about this instead? [Waves guitar back and forth]
Members 1-3: Whoa.
[Members 2-4 spend next half hour practicing waving guitars in unison.]
