Marty Friedman's album Inferno came out in 2014, and if you haven't heard it yet, you really should. It's a great guitar record with vocals from guests here and there, as well as boatloads of killer riffs. Two years later, we get to see what Friedman had in mind for the song "Meat Hook," featuring Sweden's Shining's saxophonist Jørgen Munkeby.
Here's how Friedman described the video to Billboard.
"'Meat Hook' was one of the few times that a guitar riff shot a vivid image into my mind as I was writing it. That's pretty rare, so I kept that concept of the image I had in mind when it came time to make a video. It was the image of all these massive slabs of meat on hooks, kind of like in the movie Rocky … No idea why the image came to me. Maybe it's because the actual guitar riff is quite aggressive, and when you play it you really feel the stamina of your muscles going at full throttle. If a guitar riff could be physical or 'animalistic,' the main riff in 'Meat Hook' could be described that way."
Even if you're not into the video, but haven't heard the song yet, stick around.
