6 perfect songs for your deployment video that aren’t overused

Eric Milzarski
Jan 28, 2019 6:38 PM PST
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6 perfect songs for your deployment video that aren’t overused

SUMMARY

Troops make overly-hardcore videos during their deployments to showcase the badassery of military life. Absolutely nothing wrong with that — we all do it. The thing is, whenever we push the footage over to combat camera to make it into a video fo…

Troops make overly-hardcore videos during their deployments to showcase the badassery of military life. Absolutely nothing wrong with that — we all do it. The thing is, whenever we push the footage over to combat camera to make it into a video for YouTube, we always choose the same songs, over and over again.


We get it, you stacked bodies, so you want to make the song about how grunt you and your boys were to the tune of "Bodies" by Drowning Pool. Great song! It's just way too overused considering the millions of other songs there are to chose from.

Choosing a great song for an awesome video requires a few things: A high-octane feel, a decent length (preferably over four minutes), a meaning behind the song, and it has to be something that hasn't been used in every other deployment video.

Very related: 8 awful songs that make your combat camera troops want to die

6. Tool - "Vicarious"

Did you and your platoon not get the chance to step outside the wire, but you still want to pretend like you're hard as f*ck? As if you guys needed to watch the whole world die from a good, safe distance? We've got the perfect for the POGs who want to pretend they're badasses.

Plus, the song is too good for anyone to realize you sat on the FOB the entire deployment.

5. Johnny Cash - "The Man Comes Around"

Having a fellow veteran's song play over your footage is kind of a no-brainer.

The song is about the end of the world told from the perspective of the pale horseman, Death. Very apt for every platoon who nicknames themselves "The Reapers."

Related: Why Johnny Cash was the first Westerner to learn Stalin was dead

4. Megadeth - "Hangar 18"

There aren't hardcore Air Force or Aviation songs to chose from? Bullsh*t.

You probably weren't experimenting on aliens, but the song can also be applied to badass airmen or MI troops. You know, just without foreign life forms in inventory.

3. Metallica - "Seek and Destroy"

Everyone always opts for a song off of "Ride the Lightning" or the "Black Album." People tend to sleep on the album that kicked off Metallica's career.

"Seek and Destroy" makes for one hell of a "hooah" video because it's literally what grunts do.

2. The Animals - "The House of the Rising Sun"

Let's be real: this song is basically singing about the struggles every troop faces. A sh*tty upbringing, plenty of alcohol, and thriving in a life of "sin and misery."

There're a few versions, so take your pick. The Five Finger Death Punch version may be hardcore, but The Animals' version is, well, a masterpiece.

1. Pantera - "Cemetery Gates"

Tonally, a lot of the deployment videos are all over the place. It starts off with something high-octane, like "Click, Click, Boom" by Saliva for the convoy helmet videos, then settles into something slow and sweet, like "Crossroad" by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, for the memorial piece for our fallen brothers.

"Cemetery Gates" has you covered if you want to go for something awesome for combat footage and somber for the fallen. It's over seven minutes long, so can fit everything in.

*Bonus* Alice in Chains - "Rooster"

This song is literally about the 101st Airborne Division. And it gets a soft-pass for the number of times it's been used in some 101st "hooah" videos. But the song is about them, so the real question is... why hasn't this become over-used yet?

Also Read: Why 'Rooster' was the greatest song to honor a father's service

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