Otep have released their new music video–and most sexually explicit to date–for the single, “Apex Predator,” off their recently released final album, Hydra. Directed by PR Brown (Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Chevelle), “the Apex Predator video is uncut and uncensored!” frontwoman Otep Shamaya says. “It might even get banned in a few places for its sexual and violent content, but the message is important. Challenging phobias, hypocrisies and delighting the vices in your mind.” Watch it below and let us know what you think in the comments.
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In this week’s Album of the Week poll, you, the fans, voted Otep to the top spot, for their album Hydra. Check out the top five vote-getters below:
1. Otep – Hydra
2. Holy Grail – Ride the Void
3. Love and Death – Between Here & Lost
4. For All I Am – Skinwalker
5. Helloween – Straight Out of Hell
Stay tuned for this week’s poll, which will be live tomorrow on RevolverMag.com. Until then, you can check out Otep’s “Apex Predator” off Hydra below:
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With nearly 70,000 votes cast overall for our Album for the Week poll, you elected Finland’s HIM as the winners with their XX: Two Decades of Love Metal compilation. Check out the top five vote-getters below:
1. HIM – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal
2. Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon
3. Davey Suicide – Put Your Trust In Suicide EP
4. While She Sleeps – This Is the Six
5. Isis – Temporal
Stay tuned for this week’s poll, which will be live on RevolverMag.com Wednesday, November 14. Until then, you can check out HIM’s “Strange World” off XX: Two Decades of Love Metal below:
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It’s Tuesday–the day that music comes out–and this one sees shit from All That Remains, Geoff Tate, HIM, and more out in stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to pick up.
- All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win
- Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas
- Bane – The Acausal Fire
- Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye reissue
- Davey Suicide – Put Your Trust In Suicide EP
- Doomsday – Doomsday
- Doro – Raise Your Fist
- Dragged Into Sunlight – Widowmaker
- Geoff Tate – Kings & Thieves
- Graveyard – Lights Out
- HIM – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal
- Isis – Temporal
- Iwrestledabearonce – A Beary Scary Movie DVD
- Megadeth – Countdown To Extinction: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon
- The Seeking – Yours Forever
- Strife – Witness a Rebirth
- Tiamat – The Scarred People
- Underoath – Anthology 1999-2013
- While She Sleeps – This Is the Six
Since starting Otep in 2000 to rocking numerous Ozzfests to recently dropping the band’s new, fifth full-length, Atavist (Victory; which is reviewed here), striking, outspoken frontwoman Otep Shamaya has been as open about her lesbianism as she has about her left-wing politics. And when it comes to fantasizing about which five celebrities or historical figures she’d want to get freaky with, she’s not not at all shy there either.
Sappho
“Regarded as the 10th Muse and compared to Socrates, Sappho’s love for women and for words sends my iron soul soaring. Although few images of her remain, her mental gifts and poetic heart are the attraction. I would teach her haikus and write them all over her skin with my lips and tongue.”
Hatshepsut
“She ruled, not as queen, but as the fifth Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Under her rule, Egypt experienced unparalleled growth and prosperity. Intelligence, a cunning wit, and the courage to take on the ancient paradigms of sexism: Yummy. Annnnd she’s obviously into role-playing.”
Natalie Portman
“Beautiful? Sexy? Funny? Yes! Angry rapping on SNL? Be still my heart! But she has an incredibly diverse and impressive skill set: She wrote a paper in high school on the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen, graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology, was [futureusgallerypolitically active lawyer] Alan Dershowitz’s research assistant, and was a guest lecturer at Columbia for a course in terrorism and counter terrorism. She also speaks Hebrew and has studied French, Japanese, German, and Arabic. She can V my Vendetta any time.”
Megan Fox
“The eyes, the lips, the legs—oh my! Indeed, she’s amazing. But it’s the tattoo on her back—‘We will all laugh at gilded butterflies,’ from Shakespeare’s play King Lear—that sets me on fire.”
Joan of Arc
“Because leading the resistance against the invading English empire and seeing angels and hearing Saints and seeing burning swords from heaven is incredibly sexy.”