10 Best Rock Music Videos Of The 2010s
The most recent full decade had a lot to offer fans of great rock music videos.
As the 2000s ended and pop punk and nu metal's popularity faded with them, rock music found itself in quite an interesting position going into the new decade.
Streaming had completely flipped the script on the musical landscape and the genre now found itself with both a larger audience than ever before and no real foothold in mainstream culture.
However, if we all know one thing to be true, it's that rock music never dies and neither do its music videos.
As technology advanced and budgets grew, rock bands started making more and more elaborate and well-produced videos to go along with their songs. New bands burst onto the scene, old ones rose from the dead, and they all brought special new short films for us all to obsess over.
These videos are all great in their own way.
Some are masterpieces of filmmaking, pushing the boundaries on what is impossible within the length of a song.
Some are deeply personal affairs, adding an extra layer of emotional depth to the tracks they accompany.
And some, well, some are three-and-a-half minutes of a guy dancing in a hotel lobby.
Spoilers.
10. Square Hammer - Ghost
One of the many great rock bands to come from Scandinavia over the years, Ghost caught everyone's attention with their eye-catching facepaint and eccentric cast of musicians.
It also helps that their music absolutely slaps.
With such blatant creativity on show, it's no surprise that the lads from Ghost have come up with some excellent music videos over the years. The one we've gone for also happens to be for one of their best songs - 2016's Square Hammer.
The video is in the style of a classic 20s horror movie and that theme continues throughout. Papa Emeritus III (because of course that's his name) is the star of a newly-produced "moving picture", and bathes in the adoration of his public.
The whole thing is a beautiful homage to the early days of cinema and to the gaudy, campy horror tropes that the band embody so well.
It looks absolutely beautiful, as the video is bathed in this glorious green tint. Basically, Ghost absolutely smashed it out of the park with this one, as they do every time.
Also, as we said, it helps that the tune is a banger.