The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
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| Studio album by Buckethead | ||||||||||
| Released | April 20, 2004 | |||||||||
| Genre | Experimental metal | |||||||||
| Length | 52:16 | |||||||||
| Label | Disembodied | |||||||||
| Producer | Dan Monti | |||||||||
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| "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" | ||||
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| Song by Buckethead from the album The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell | ||||
| Released | April 20, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | John Merrick Recorder | |||
| Genre | Alternative metal, experimental metal | |||
| Length | 2:17 | |||
| Label | Disembodied | |||
| Writer(s) | Buckethead, Dan Monti | |||
| Producer(s) | Dan Monti | |||
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The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell is the thirteenth studio album by American guitarist Buckethead. It was released on April 20, 2004 via Disembodied Records. The album contains seventeen songs, and is considered by fans to be Buckethead's heaviest offering to date. The album includes the song "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment", one of the few Buckethead songs for which a music video has been made.
Many of the song titles include references to elements of Dante's Inferno.
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" is the second song from the album and one of a few that have a music video (the other were "The Ballad of Buckethead" from the album Monsters and Robots, "We Are One" from Buckethead's 2005 album Enter the Chicken, "Pyrrhic Victory" by Thanatopsis, and "Viva Voltron", for the animated series Voltron).
The music video was directed by Syd Garon and Eric Henry featuring additional artwork by longtime Buckethead collaborator Bryan "Frankenseuss" Theiss. The video is based on the famous triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Last Judgement, the Paradise and Hell, and The Temptation of St. Anthony.
The music video starts showing a place that looks like hell where Buckethead has a lute and is carried by a flying beast which releases him. Buckethead ends in the hands of the "Prince of Hell" from the The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
Buckethead gets eaten by the creature and his head, the lute and the two arms fall, getting themselves stuck on a tree where Buckethead starts to play a part of the song. While he plays, a lot of people getting killed are shown in several ways and a bird is picking body parts. Then the "Tree Man" from the same triptych is shown and the camera changes to the upper part of the triptych where all is on fire.
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