The Horror! The Horror!

Fans and collectors often accept the fact that multi-generation copies are the best you can find of some things. So when you find rare stuff in good quality, it is really a treat. There's a lot of fun kitschy stuff on here I didn't think you could find in good quality like Alice Cooper on the "Muppet Show," and Kiss on the "Paul Lynde Halloween Special."

If you like metal as heavy, film editor Mike Juliano put together his own videos out of sicko horror films with "death metal" soundtracks. You get the heaviest music imaginable from bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Mortician and Impetigo playing to the nastiest scenes from Dead Alive, Mortuary and The Wizard of Gore.

Speaking of heavy and sick, there's some footage from Slayer as well. Like Metallica, in Slayer's club days they were also outcasts in hair-sprayed L.A. One live clip is age restricted (it probably includes the singer's stage rap about performing oral sex on a corpse). There is also what appears to be cell phone footage of a Slayer mosh pit, which looks like something straight out of Dante's inferno (I survived a Slayer pit back in the 1980s and they were even bigger and gnarlier than what you'll see here).

There are also clips from Venom, the legendary New Wave of British Heavy Metal band who were big influences on both Metallica and Slayer. Venom couldn't play their instruments that well, but they were heavy, and they laid the groundwork for the whole speed /thrash/death metal scene to come. As you can see by the smog layer of dry ice and blasting pyrotechnics, Venom's live show was like "Spinal Tap" meets Studio 54 in hell (check out their videos for "Witching Hour" and "Bloodlust" to see what I mean). The uploader of one Venom clip wrote: "No need to explain Venom. If I have to, you neither deserve to live or watch this video." Got that?