The Slants - How the Wicked Live music video teaser trailer

The a teaser clip for the upcoming music video of "How the Wicked Live," from The Slants third album "Pageantry." The music video also pays tribute to the iconic Japanese novel/movie/manga, "Battle Royale" The BR collars were graciously provided by goddessboutique.net

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ABOUT THE SLANTS:
It's rare for a band to be headlining shows with 5,000-15,000 fans in attendance and internationally touring in their first year as a band. What originated as a side project for Simon Young (of The Stivs) in 2007 proved to be one of the most energetic and contagious movements of music in our time. Incase you haven't heard, The Slants are the first and only all Asian synth-pop band in the North America and they have been melting faces off all over the globe.

Kicking off the band's career at a tiny dive bar in Portland, OR, The Slants soon found themselves on tour and in demand worldwide performing at music halls, colleges, and anime conventions. Within months, they released their debut album "Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts" winning multiple awards from the likes of Willamette Week, Rockwired, AsiaXpress, and the Portland Music Awards. Since that first iconic show in 2007, The Slants have been cited as the "Hardest Working Asian American Band" (slanteyefortheroundeye.com), toured North America ten times, rejected a million dollar recording contract, were the first and only Asian band to be a Fender Music artist, and according to U.S Congress, the first rock band to play inside a state library.

The Willamette Week, summarizes The Slants' history perfectly: "It's a great story: All-Asian synthcore troupe lands anime festival, achieves instantaneous notoriety from overpacked fireball-laden maelstrom, inspires John Woo and Dragon Ball Z fans toward aggro electro and—just months after its first practice—books gigs across the globe. As shadow-warriory as the Slants' rise has been, it's still all about the tunes, and the band's debut—floor-filling synth pop bristling with all the menace and grandeur of its oft name-checked cultural icons—is propulsive, cinematic and impossible to ignore."

By the end of 2008, the band had been featured in over 1,200 magazines, radio stations, websites, and television shows for their self-proclaimed "Chinatown Dance Rock," including a feature on NPR's "All Things Considered" that blasted across 700 FM stations across the country for months.

The following year, The Slants headlined a SXSW showcase (other acts at the festival included Katy Perry, Metallica, and Devo), launched several more tours spanning North America, and released a dance remix album entitled "Slants! Slants! Revolution," while donating 100% of the proceeds to benefit cancer research affecting Asian American women.

2010 saw the release of The Slants' third album, "Pageantry." Pageantry featured a number of local icons including Cory Gray (The Decemberists), Krista Herring, Mic Crenshaw, and Gabe Kniffin (Silversafe). The harder hitting, guitar driven songs still featured The Slants' signature dance rock flavor and again, massive touring throughout the country continued.

The Slants have shared the stage with acts such as Apl.de.Ap (Black Eyed Peas), Vampire Weekend, Girl Talk, Girugamesh, M.O.V.E and Boom Boom Satellites.

The band is currently touring nationwide while working on their fourth release.

For more information visit:
www.theslants.com
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[winnlamp]

YOUR MUSIC IS FUCKING LAME. SO OUT OF DATE JUST LIKE ROTTEN MILK ON YOUR FRIDGE.

[SlantsVideos]

@winnlamp Thank you

[Dugger1997]

Haha, this is hilarious. Was this filmed in Portland?

[SlantsVideos]

@Dugger1997 - It was about 6-7 hours outside of PDX

[Dugger1997]

@SlantsVideos What city or town?

[SlantsVideos]

@Dugger1997 - Secret location...kind of. It was in the middle of nowhere, there's no town there. Just abandoned buildings and half-demolished factories

[JennyLyric]

ummm i <3 u guys!

[johnnybeane]

Cool dudes!!

[GigaRagnaSlave]

This is going to be so awesome! I cannot wait to see the final project, love the Battle Royal theme you guys got going:)