OK so forgive me for some shameles promotion of a band some friends are in. However, I'm a big fan of the film Serenity/TV series Firefly and, like I said, also know the guys from a rather good Progressive Metal band called Threshold. OK, stop sniggering. I know it's a genre more comfortably in the likes of Classic Rock, Kerrang!! or Metal Bludgeon magazine or whatever, but the guys in Threshold actually make some great, intelligent music which values melody and taste over widdling at a gazillion miles an hour like most bands in the genre...

ANYWAY.... I came across this on YouTube. A "music video" constructed from excerpts of the film with a track from Threshold's latest album as the soundtrack. And it's not half bad either, if you ask me (as a slightly biased fan of both the film and the band). It's been done by some web/graphic design bod from the States.

Anyway, here it is...

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See what you think. If you should happen to like it, there's more about Threshold here... http://www.thresh.net/ Threshold's new album, Dead Reckoning, also features a rather good cover of Muse's Supermassive Black Hole on the "Special Limited Edition" version. Check it out!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Reckoning-Limited-Threshold/dp/B000NA7FFU/r...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravages-Time-Best-Threshold/dp/B000VO8O12/ref=sr...

Shameless plug over. It is an interesting phenomenon with the advent of YouTube that there's the urge for people to display, what is effectively, their own noodling on the laptop to the world. Some, like this, seem to be quite well done. What I'll never get is these teenagers who video themselves mining along to a pop song - hairbrush microphone in hand - and then post the damn thing on the internet. Madness. when I was their age my Mum would have dismissed the whole thing with a scathing, "Ignore him, he's just attention seeking".