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This is the first edit of the Raising Sand video I shot before Christmas. The video was shot over 2 days with no budget. Luzahan and Caroline are the 2 girls doing the dirty action scenes and they were just fantastic on the day. Caroline is no stranger to the music scene after she represented the UK in the Eurovision song contest in the band Scooch. It was great fun making the vid and looking forward to starting a new project. Off on tour with Maiden next week.

‘Hammer Pics Revisited: Avenged Sevenfold
terrybezer / News, Top Posts / 28/01/2009 18:47pm
Go back into the ‘Hammer archives with our Avenged Sevenfold ‘Sin City’ shoot and another batch of Avenged pics featuring sexy ladies!

Metal Hammer goes back to December 2005 to revisit our Avenged Sevenfold ‘Sin City’ shoot.

Talking about the concept behind the shoot, Metal Hammer’s Art Editor James Isaacs says: “At the time of this cover shoot for A7X, the Frank Miller film ‘Sin City’ was flying high around the world and it was the poster from the movie that inspired us to recreate that shot, using Avenged as our anti-heroes. We couldn’t get the band to the UK so we flew snapper John McMurtrie to Atlanta and told him to round up some guns and baseball bats…as you do. Luckily, the band had their own! He used the same lighting and composition from the film and even shot the buildings for the background. It was then given to our Photoshop mentalist Chris Stocker who added the rain and did the final tweaks.”

“We wanted to show A7X as a gang, the dangerous new guys on the scene. I think we got it just right, as it’s still probably the most popular and talked about Metal Hammer cover of the past 10 years!”

The other is in Hungary’s leading photo title ‘digitalis foto’. They got in touch with me over a year ago and I had forgotten all about it until I received a copy through the post today. It looks good but I have no idea whether it is a good read? Anyone fluent in Hungarian out there?

Busy busy editing a music video I shot before christmas using Final Cut Pro. The band is Raising Sand and the song is Dirty weekend. I loved the song before I began this project. Having listened to the same chorus 900 times I am starting to crave sitting in a quiet room for a week or two. I still love the song though. Below is a still from the shoot just before we made a bit of a mess!

The Answer in New Jersey on the AC/DC tour.