It so happened that high-quality clips with meaning are mostly shot by rock performers, trying to tell a story in them.
They rarely meet banality, like rappers (half-naked girls, money, cars, and other show-offs), and some works were shot at the level of good short films.
10. Rammstein - Rosenrot
The Germans each clip is worthy of attention, but this one has the most interesting plot. The story tells of a group of monks who come to a small settlement where locals warmly welcome them, giving them shelter and a place at the table.
A wedding is being prepared in the village, but despite this, the bride is actively building eyes for one of the monks. As a result, the couple marries, and the girl seeks her own and seduces the clergyman, persuading him to kill her husband, whom she does not love.
Blinded by love and jealousy, a monk (played by Til Lindemann) kills an opponent, but a freshly baked widow decides to deceive him as well. She calls the neighbors and hangs all the dogs on him, for which he is burned alive at the stake.
9. Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong side of heaven
The musicians of the band Five Finger Death Punch are well-known patriots and have several songs and videos on the military theme, but the Wrong side of heaven is definitely the best.
The clip is dedicated to the life of veterans who, after the army, are no longer needed by the country and society, especially if they returned with disabilities or have mental disorders.
The statistics of former soldiers who have become homeless, well-shot footage of a military operation and a piercing demonstration of the pain of the military - all this can cause a tear in anyone.
8. Limp Bizkit - Boiler
The surreal bad trip from Limp Bizkit is hard to describe in words, as everyone will understand what is shown in it in their own way. Strange, but this video work is not as popular as the other clips of the group, although it is shot much better.
Android robots, explosions, the sudden transformation of the footage into animation - it looks amazing, especially for the beginning of the zero, when it was shot.
7. Dimmu Borgir - The Serpentine Offering
The clip tells about the times of the Crusades, when monks literally forced Christianity on the Gentiles.
One of the crusaders, a young monk, seeing the horrors that his brothers do (burning imaginary witches at the stake), tears off the cross and renounces the faith.
With the help of an ancient pagan rite, he gains enormous power and calls the horsemen of the Apocalypse, who easily deal with cruel Christians.
The video series leaves open the question of which is worse: unwanted faith or otherworldly demons?
6. KORN - Thoughtless
At first, the plot may seem painfully banal, but the main thing is to watch it to the end.
A young guy, a student in high school, has no friends and constantly suffers humiliation from peers, hating himself and the whole world.
Gradually, the anger accumulated in him becomes so strong that demons wake up inside, and not in a figurative, but in the most direct sense.
The denouement takes place at the prom, where yesterday the outcast comes in the company of a charming demoness and spoils the holiday for everyone.
The plot is worthy of a youth horror, all the more the main role is played by Aaron Paul - that same Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad.
5. Biopsyhoz - Pepel
Two soldiers dressed in Nazi Germany uniform are leading a guy and a girl to be shot. The guy is killed first and reloaded guns to execute the girl, but she suddenly begins to dance.
Holding her hands to the sky, she moves fascinatingly, as if performing a ritual, and even the executioners put down their weapons, fascinated by the sight. And then ... What happens afterwards is better to see on your own.
Of particular note is the message at the end of the video urging you not to listen to politicians calling for war. It is doubly pleasant that such a high-quality video and song belong to the Russian team.
4. Metallica - Frantic
A young man rushes at high speed in his car and, not paying attention to the red light, gets into an accident.
The car takes off into the air and begins to roll over, and the driver’s life sweeps before his eyes. Suddenly, he clearly understands that he spent it in vain: alcohol, cigarettes, food, sleep, casual relationships for one night, drinking in the company of foolish friends - that’s all he can remember.
The clip makes you think that the watch is ticking, and the life of many people is meaningless.
3. Disturbed - The Light
The piercing story of a fireman who, during another call, falls under the collapse of the building. His companions save him and pull him out of the fire, but now he has to learn to walk again and hide his burned-out face under the hood.
He loses his job, people on the street get scared when they see him, and he begins to depend more and more on antidepressants.
Fortunately, next to him is a girl who loves him for who he is, not paying attention to scars and mental anguish. Love can cure the fact that medicine is powerless.
2. Pain - Shut Your Mouth
This song is considered the main hit of the group, and the video for it was a real sensation at the time of release.
A man wakes up in his bed at the sound of an annoying alarm clock and goes to the kitchen to drink milk, when suddenly the house is illuminated by a strange light from outside, and a guest from another planet appears on the threshold.
Next, we are shown how a man tries to tell the government about the humanoid, but they advise him to shut his mouth and not talk nonsense, refusing to believe.
But the ending is generally “nice”: the alien remains to live in the house and becomes a friend of the earthling.
1. Moby feat. The Void Pacific Choir - Are You Lost in the World Like Me?
Finish the clip, showing us the dependence of modern man on gadgets. The video sequence is completely drawn, but the cartoon makes it only better.
The protagonist does not understand why those around are so blind and insensitive: when they see a fire, they take a selfie against the background, shoot a video, and when a marginal person sticks to the girl, they stumble on the gadget screen and pretend that they don’t notice.
If you look carefully, someone may well recognize themselves immersed in the virtual world at the moment when something important happens in the real world.