The Metal Shakespeare Company: "To Bleed or Not to Bleed" (Hamlet III.i with V.i)

Music video for the Metal Shakespeare Company's take on Act III, scene i of Hamlet, the "to be or not to be" speech.

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Filmed at Lewis & Clark College and Greenwood Hills Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, by Ian Rasmussen. Edited by Matt Miadich. (c) 2009 the Metal Shakespeare Company

Category:

Music

Tags:

• msc
• shakespeare
• metal
• hamlet
• finger
• tapping
• fop
• renaissance
• skull
• yorrick
• cemetery
• grave
• yard
• crazy

[ajkpchee1]

the singer cannot hold a tune. if somebody in a band doesn't write completely original lyrics and can't play an instrument or sing, he's just a loser.

[metalshakespeare]

Sir, I'll have thee know I am am possession of and play at each performance the most metal guitar on earth, a Burns Flyte. It can been in myriad photographs on our myspace page.

Second, if I canst not a tune carry, than in good company I am for not a fortnight hath passed since the great scribes of Seattle Weekly didst mine voice compare to that of Sebastian Bach.

[EggSpinner42]

Do you guys have a CD out?

[metalshakespeare]

Indeed, sir! Thou may it find within the text of the video.

[borki4]

the keyboards got edited out?

Awesome song by the way. I can't believe you are disbanding, just when you finally got the bass player.

[metalshakespeare]

Disband! Gracious no. 'Tis merely the facebook group hath disbanded! The MSC soldiers on!

The song was recorded with our old, pre-bass player lineup--the bassline is played by the keys.

[PlanetofChaos]

METAL SHAKESPEARE!!!!!!! Thou has the BIGGEST BALLS OF THEM ALL!!!

[Shadowzgoth]

Definately one of a kind, so glad i came across them :) stay metal \m/ greets from England

[PrincessMiskrys]

The use of the ass' head is not part of Hamlet. "Ye olde stox" is essentially saying "You old stocks." I'd use something other than spray paint to write it if I were you. Considering the subject matter, I'm surprised you didn't include the bloody sword fight at the end, where Laertes and Hamlet end up killing each other and the Queen and King are poisoned. Throwing in Polonius getting stabbed by Hamlet behind the curtain in the Queen's bedroom wouldn't be a bad idea.

[Lif3lov3r]

I though that band is epic. After watching their vids... Damn theyre damn epic!

[joebstarsurfer]

when a history degree goes wrong lol out of tune aswell something of rotten "what a falling of there was ".

[Dacfu]

I cant believe I just found two of my favorite things blended together! This rocks. I just played hamlet, and I wish I had found this before the run ended

[LocoNativoz]

lol too awesome

[draximos]

These guys should come back to eugene and play at the WOW Hall. they have pretty epic fuckin stage performance, they came to entertain and did so thusly.

[jesus4eva9987]

i was lucky to see them at a small concert.. i was there for another band. this was just a bonus! they blew me away! they are hysterical! on that day it was shakespeares bday so they had a cake with 436 candels and burned them all! best thing ever! you guys are awesome!

[sonicdinosaur]

It doesn't get any more metal than this.

[agdarwin]

Umm....yeah.

[dobbe2]

Oh happy happy me! You guys seriously make me laugh! SERIOUSLY!