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I am really stoked for this Metallica album and maybe it’s because I generally like everything these guys do, (full disclosure: I thought St. Anger was fucking rad…) but I will for sure be rushing out to buy this album when it comes out on the 12th.

For now I can listen to the leaks on YouTube, which I am happy to admit won’t compare to the album blaring on my car stereo when I get my hands on the son of a bitch. Below is the video for “The Day That Never Comes”. Unfortunately the first half is essentially a drawn out medi-vac scene, however it is finally salvaged by a convincing second half with Kirk shredding against a soldier deciding whether or not to shoot an Iraqi woman advancing at him.

Iraq war music videos are usually condescendingly melodramatic (Green Day anyone?) as this one is also guilty of, but at least this one’s got a happy ending… Wait this is a Metallica video, aren’t 18 wheelers supposed to crash through beds and shit? I digress…

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My appetite for better quality web video is growing by the day. Where I used to go to YouTube and easily entertain myself, I find it hard to sit through the terrible quality of its videos these days. Hence I have been on the hunt for compelling video content that isn’t sullied by cheap high compression rates. Through my search I have come to realize that no one is doing this better than Vimeo right now.

Not only do they deliver HD video content flawlessly (thanks to BitGravity) but they are attracting the best of the best who are shooting in HD. I predict we will soon notice the ubiquity of Vimeo embeds increasing steadily, as shooting in HD becomes a pre-requesite for video content. I have been recently addicted to HD streaming video, watching Hulu clips at night and during the day spending entirely too much time on the Vimeo HD Channel.

Chalk Drawing from Joel Endicott on Vimeo.

Above is the video that spurred this post, it’s a simple video shot by a father of his daughters playing with sidewalk chalk, complete with a Sufjan Stevens song to make it even more endearing. But it looks GREAT and that’s what makes this HD revolution so exciting, good quality content is fighting its way to the top, and that can only mean good things for online media.

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