Released April 20, 2004 Label Disembodied Release date 20 April 2004 | Length 52:16 Artist Buckethead Producer Dan Monti | |
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The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
(2004) Enter the Chicken
(2005) Genres Heavy metal, Experimental rock, Avant-garde metal, Progressive metal Similar Buckethead albums, Experimental rock albums | ||
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell is the thirteenth studio album by American guitarist Buckethead. It was released on April 20, 2004 via Disembodied Records. The album contains seventeen songs, and is considered by fans to be Buckethead's heaviest offering to date. The album includes the song "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment", one of the few Buckethead songs for which a music video has been made.
Contents
Buckethead descent of the damned
Spokes for the Wheel of Torment
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" is the second song from the album and one of a few that have a music video (the other were "The Ballad of Buckethead" from the album Monsters and Robots, "We Are One" from Buckethead's 2005 album Enter the Chicken, "Pyrrhic Victory" by Thanatopsis, and "Viva Voltron", for the animated series Voltron).
Music Video
The music video was directed by Syd Garon and Eric Henry featuring additional artwork by longtime Buckethead collaborator Bryan "Frankenseuss" Theiss. The video is based on the famous triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Last Judgement, the Paradise and Hell, and The Temptation of St. Anthony.
The music video starts showing a place that looks like hell where Buckethead has a lute and is carried by a flying beast which releases him. Buckethead ends in the hands of the "Prince of Hell" from the The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
Buckethead gets eaten by the creature and his head, the lute and the two arms fall, getting themselves stuck on a tree where Buckethead starts to play a part of the song. While he plays, a lot of people getting killed are shown in several ways and a bird is picking body parts. Then the "Tree Man" from the same triptych is shown and the camera changes to the upper part of the triptych where all is on fire.
Buckethead keeps playing and when the song finishes the screen goes black and the credits appear showing the triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch. After the credits the camera pulls to show the credits were on a circular shape. During this time, parts of the song "Traveling Morgue" from the same album are played. The screen goes black again and the words "Beware, Beware, God Sees" appear.
The clip was shown at some film festivals around the world, such as the Sydney Film Festival, amongst others.
The music video has been officially made available in 2006, as part of the Anxious Animation DVD release as well as Buckethead's own video compilation Secret Recipe.
Credits
Performers
Production
Songs
1Descent of the Damned3:07
2Spokes for the Wheel of Torment2:17
3Arc of the Pendulum2:32