Cleveland metallers Alternate Reality have released an ambitious new music video for their latest single, “Project Wormhole.”  The video was filmed over a five-year period and features over 150 actors drawn from several historical reenactment groups as well as Ohio’s haunted house and film communities.

Alternate Reality is the infamous lawyer-fronted metal band known for producing 2011’s viral video sensation, “The King That Never Was,” which has been declared one of the greatest metal videos of all time and also voted the No. 1 worst video of 2011 by Yahoo! Music.  In 2015, the band’s “King” video snagged a spot on VH1’s Top 10 list for “Awesomely Terrible Heavy Metal Videos,” alongside such artists as KISS, Rush, and Judas Priest. It also has been named a No. 1 video in the “The Merciless Book of Metal Lists” (available in paperback on Amazon).

The band’s latest video was once again directed, edited, and produced by Alternate Reality frontman, Steve Delchin.  It spotlights a rare version of the famous DMC DeLorean sports car from the 1980s “Back to the Future” film trilogy that transports the band members back into time.  “The heavy metal scene has so many great genres and themes, and I wanted to explore all of them in a single video,” says Delchin.  “Project Wormhole features prehistoric characters, Egyptians, Roman gladiators, Viking, Medieval warriors, pirates, Civil War soldiers, and even zombies.  Thanks to everyone who devoted their time and talents to our unique production.”

“Project Wormhole” includes scenes from an elaborate full-day video shoot in Cleveland’s Public Square featuring over 100 zombie extras.  The spectacle attracted a large group of onlookers and even caught the attention of Cleveland’s NBC TV affiliate WKYC Channel 3, which covered the band’s video shoot on its nightly newscast.