Video Kiddos 2020 #6: Pig Destroyer "The Cavalry"

The awkwardness of the "quarantine music video" or "zoom movie" does not normally comply with an aesthetic that's easy on the eyes. Everything basically looks like the poorly advised "Hollywood centrist-liberals singing Imagine" video.

We got deeply upset after catching a few seconds of a Sesame Street segment where Bert and Ernie communicate over a simulated Zoom chat -- staring directly into two cameras pointing directly at the center of their cushy faces. We felt especially hurt by the very possibiity of Sesame Street latching themselves to a trend of massive commercial brands co-opting 2020's bizarre circumstances in sad attempts to capitalize. We respect that responsible children's educational television might find themselves in a tough position right now, and it's not exactly the easiest decision when the show's current creators are determining how to interpret larger world events.

Death-metal videos rest on the extreme opposite end of this spectrum, and arguably have an equally rickety tightrope to confront. Again, it's not like we caught every video from 2020, but Pig Destroyer might have handled this better than anyone else -- equally as absurd and ridiculous as any of their other videos from the past 20 years or so. We salute these guys.