On Tuesday, Headbangers Blog will premiere the new In This Moment video for "Beautiful Tragedy." The clip was directed by Robert Hall (Josh Todd) and shot in Santa Clarita, California this spring.

"We are very excited about the upcoming release of our video for ‘Beautiful Tragedy,’" says guitarist Chris Howarth. "This is the only the second video we've ever made and we spent a lot more time and money on it. We shot on location in the mountains after a recent forest fire so the whole set is very dark and creepy, with burnt out trees, scorched earth and lots of smoke and ash. While the last video for ‘Prayers’ primarily relied on live performance footage, this clip combines that with some dark, fairy tale type storyline, which is pretty cool."

In This Moment's debut album, Beautiful Tragedy, came out March 20.

Until Tuesday, here's "Prayers":

And now, here's the final installment of Howarth's guest blog from Europe:

Day 18: Tilburg, Netherlands
We were really excited to get to this venue. It’s the first day of the Life of Agony tour and we were told the best fried chicken in the world was right next door. We arrived at about 1 p.m. , everyone is ready to get off the bus, its hot and we all are starving The majority of the men in DevilDriver and In This Moment decided after finding out the fried chicken place wasn’t open yet, that we were finding a McDonald's, and we weren’t waiting for anyone ([our singer] Maria [Brink] hated me for half the day for leaving her). After we ate, we moved into our dressing room and got our gear situated. Today we are also meeting up with our new tour mates, Drowning Pool and crew, and Life Of Agony and crew. So there is a whole new group of people we will be with for the next week. After a late soundcheck, we rushed to get ready for a pre-show photoshoot with Cindy Frey. Cindy was really fast and the pictures she took looked great! The show itself was very odd. The crowd was really withdrawn, but we still made new fans so it was a good show. After we played, I took a shower and met up with our friend Rudde [Jolie, a guitarist] from Within Temptation. Tilburg is his home town and he came to the show and showed us around the neighborhood a bit. He's a really great guy and it’s a really neat city. Also, we finally got to eat our fried chicken; it was good but the "best in the world" tag might be pushing it. The bus call was at 12:30 a.m. and we depart for Arhus, Denmark.

Day 19: Arhus, Denmark
We arrive at the venue at 1 p.m. again (our driver Jurgen is pretty good. Crazy, but good). Arhus is a really nice city and we jump off the bus starving again. [Drummer] Jeff [Fabb], [Tour manager Jenny Blue] Miller and I decide we are gonna go find food and after a short walk we find a falafel type place. The food is good so we eat and go back to the venue to get the gear sorted out again (this is an every day thing); we love doing this! As it turns out LOA, and Drowning Pool are very cool people and we get along with everyone on this tour. Tonight's show was amazing. The crowd really responded to us. We had a blast up there and everyone played great! Jeff stage dove during DevilDriver set, and the kids pretty much dropped him. It was funny as hell, but he totally redeemed himself during the LOA set and did a precision dive, with an extra kick for flair. Its 1 a.m. here, the show is over, there are a lot of drunk people on the bus tonight, I am tired and the bunk sounds good right now.

Day 20: Copenhagen, Denmark
Woke up at the venue in Copenhagen sweating my ass off. It felt like 100 degrees on the upper level of the bus. The venue is a huge place, with a huge stage. It looks like the show tonight's gonna be fun. We are coming to the end of our run with DevilDriver and it's sad. We have become such good friends with them and the crew. We will miss everyone. We are at the point that we are counting down the days now. Only four more shows left!!! DevilDriver are also counting the days. It's funny, our show schedule has the phrase "there’s no place like home" penciled in at the bottom. Life of Agony has been blowing me away every night since we started playing with them. They are such a good band. [Singer] Keith Caputo has been giving us a special shout out every night from the stage. We love them! The show tonight turned out good again. It was packed out and we did well on CD sales. I showered right after the show and hung out on the bus with Dez just chillin'. Eventually, everyone got on the bus and started watching movies, except for a few hardcore partiers. Bus call is 3 a.m. and we head for Hamburg Germany. Static-X is on the show in Hamburg, so we get to meet our Ozzfest mates.

Day 21: Hamburg Germany
I woke up at a German truck stop and had to jump through a few hoops to find a bathroom. No one understands me -- ha, ha. We got to the venue about an hour later and just kept on sleeping. I woke up to Jenny (again) telling me we are loading. This is my life: load, play, load, play, load. It never ends, but I am so grateful. It beats public storage any day. This is a great venue, so the show looks like it will be a good one. Every venue we have played on this tour has been totally pro. We are so thankful to DevilDriver and LOA for taking us out with them.

The answer to yesterday's Indecipherable Logo of the Day is b) Nokturnal Mortum

On a dark, misty night in 1994, ex members of Ukrainian band Suppuration united to record a side project under the name Noctural Mortum. After the release of the "Twilightfall" demo, they changed the spelling of their name and by the end of the year they had recorded the "Black Clouds over Slavonic Lands" demo. A final demo, "Lunar Poetry," followed the next year. Then various lineup shifts took place before the band released their first full-length Pagan folk/black metal album, Goat Horns, which came out in 1997. An EP followed before Nokturnal Mortum recorded their signature album, To The Gates of Blasphemous Fire. The two full-lengths were released in North America on The End records in 1998 and 1999 respectively. The band's new album, NeChrist came out shortly after.

As the new Millennium arrived, Nokturnal Mortum lay low for a while, though in 2003 they issued the new four-song EP The Taste of Victory and released their 1995 demo Twilightfall on CD.

Nokturnal Mortum's most recent album was 2005's Weltanschauung.

So far this year, the lords of the underworld have vomited forth some impressive black metal offerings by Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Marduk and Immortal, to name a few. But one of the most vibrant, entrancing and experimental discs, Sigh's Hangman's Hymn will sadly fall under the radar of all but the most comprehensive black metal enthusiasts. And that's a frickin' crime.

Japanese quintet, Sigh, are endlessly creative and refuse to adhere to the parameters of their peers. Since their emergence in 1993 with Scorn Defeat, they've dressed their adventurous songs with jazz twists, psychedelic interludes and orchestral flourishes, using a wide variety of instruments, including violins, horns, bells, keyboards, choirs.

Hangman's Hymn is even more adventurous, forsaking elements of jazz and psychedelia and presenting the entire album like a majestic black metal opera. The album is divided into three "acts" that representing elements of greed on earth, torture in hell, and the solemnity of death, and frontman Mirai Kawashima says his primary influences were classical composers including Wagner, Weber, Mozart and Beethoven.

"Good opera is so emotional and powerful," Kawashima tells MTVnews.com's Metal File. "And that's what I was inspired by. A lot of black-metal bands use keyboards and strings for embellishments. But the keyboard parts and orchestration on Hangman's Hymn are not embellishments. They are as important to the songs as the guitars, bass and drums. So even though it's very metal, you can say it's pretty much classical music as well."

Just because Sigh draw heavily from classical music doesn't mean they lack the rage of some of their less creative peers. Hangman's Hymn is fast and brutal, intertwining orchestrating into a web of contempt that could burn a hole through the side of Underoath's tour bus.

"I hate 99 percent of the people on this earth," Kawashima tells Metal File. "I hate weak people who have to cling to fairy tales like religion, and I hate greedy people that have nothing more than making money in their head. I just want all of them to die."

For the complete interview with Sigh and all of this week's metal news, check out this week's edition of MTVnews.com's Metal File.

We've seen chicks, foxes, studs, heifers and other beasts banging their heads to Slayer, but this is a first:

The premiere heavy metal ballet company, Ballet Deviare, is holding auditions on June 30 from 1 to 4 p.m.

According to a news bulletin, the company is looking for "technical dancers with a dark aesthetic." In additions, the dancers must "have the ability to pick up non-traditional choreography."

Dancers with performance experience who are interested in auditioning should send a resume and current photo right away to info@balletdeviare.org. Those who will be auditioned will be emailed the location and time.

Here are the company's requirements: Female dancers must bring ponte shoes; non-U.S. citizens must have Green Cards; those who audition must provide a resume, photo and a $10 application fee.

Dancers chosen for Ballet Deviare will receive only performance pay.

We're guessing this heavy metal dancer shouldn't bother applying:

Heavy Metal Dancer

Add to My Profile | More VideosBallet Deviare was co-founded in 2003 by Artistic Director Laura Karalewski and Executive Director Andrew Carpenter. The company's productions in and around New York have included works by Opeth, My Dying Bride, Arsis and Swallow the Sun.

For a while the forces for light were gumming up our servers and making it impossible to post blasphemous photos and symbols on the site, but once again, the dark has prevailed and now we can once again bring you the Indecipherable Logo of the Day.

While this would look pretty cool hanging on a door or decorating a shield or a tombstone, it's one of the most illegible band logos we've ever seen. There are snakes, inverted crosses and swirly-swirls, but nothing that looks the least bit like a letter from the English alphabet. So, unless you're into super-extreme underground stuff, good luck:

Here are your choices:

a) Ectoplasmic Tree b) Nokturnal Mortum c) Nile d) Entrails of Satan

The answer and a brief bio coming tomorrow!

To promote the 2007 Wacken Open Air Festival, Oidium Publishing has issued the third annual "Wacken - "Metal Dream Girls Calendar."

The 14 page calendar features sexy Wacken Fans chosen from over 2,000 entries submitted to a 2006 Internet-based contest at www.metaldreamgirls.de. The winners were invited to attend Wacken 2006, where their photos were taken for the calendar.

If you're wondering why someone would want to buy a calendar halfway through the year, you deserve a smack in the face with a copy of Maxim. Dude, these are hot chicks!! What more reason do you need?? Oh yeah, and the Calendar starts in September 2007 and runs through August 2008, so it can easily be used as a reference device, if you so choose.

For information on how too order your Metal Dream Girls Calendar, email oidium@jan-oidium.com.

This year's Wacken Open Air Festival takes place August 2 through 4 and will include performances by: The Black Dahlia Murder, Napalm Death, 1349, All That Remains, Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved, Possessed, Municipal Waste, Immortal, Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Iced Earth, Destruction, Cthonic, Cannibal Corpse, Blind Guardian, Amorphis and many others.

For a taste of Wacken, here's the promotional trailer for last year's festival:
Wacken Trailer 2006

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These are hazardous times for wannabe '80s thrash metal icons, actual '80s thrash metal players and their kids.

First, all eyes are on Death Angel frontman Mark Osegueda, who tore his eyeball when he fell forward onto the metal pole of a mic stand in a vocal booth while recording with his new band All Time Highs, Osegueda passed out from the pain and was rushed to the emergency room where doctors treated the damaged eye. After a brief recovery in the Idaho mountains, he is expected to regain full vision -- which means the band won't have to change its name to As EYE Lay Dying. Still, All Time Highs were forced to cancel Sunday night’s show in Oakland, but plan to return to the stage on July 6 in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Sepultura guitarist Andre Killer was just recovering from the painful muscle virus of Dengue, which he contracted from a mosquito bite in Brazil when his 20-month old son Enzo swallowed a coin-shaped TV remote control battery and had to undergo surgery. The toddler remained in the hospital for a week before returning home.

Finally, Finnish thrash metal cellist quartet, Apocalyptica, had to cancel a July 15 date in Helsinki opening for Metallica because member Perttu Kivalaakso somehow injured his finger in the U.S. during a photo session. Doctors have ordered him not to play with the group for three months while his damaged digit heals.

Here are two live videos of Velvet Revolver's Rock Am Ring 2007 set shot for European TV. The first clip features "She Builds Quick Machines" and "Set Me Free" and the second features a cover of Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" and Guns N' Roses' "My Brownstone."Velvet Revolver's second album, Libertad, comes out July 3 and can be streamed in its entirety here. Now, enjoy the vids!

How many times do we have to tell you people?? Bang of the Week has got nothing to do with Tera Patrick!! It's just our way of letting artists spread the love by plugging other band's videos. This week we've got Arizona extreme metal buzz band Job For a Cowboy guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju giving props to French experimental death metal outfit Gojira's video for "To Sirius."

"I like the Gojira video because houmies love houmies," Bhadriraju said in a pretty unhelpful manner. Then the sly guitarist took the opportunity for some free self -promotion:

"Just checking in to say what's up!?," he began. "We're back on tour and ready for the road. We've spent the last month at home gearing up for the fun-filled summer! At home, I finally got to hit up the Xbox 360 and rage with some 'Gears of War!' I don't really do much on my down time besides hang out and rage and hang out some more.

"I recently -- well not so recently, more so like several months ago -- saw the Deftones in my time off. Their emotional, powerful show stunned the audience. I enjoy catching some good shows during my time off. I never get a chance to chillax and enjoy an awesome concert.

"Anyone into Gojira or Mastodon?," he asked, finally getting back to the point of this whole thing. "They've been getting good airtime on my iPod recently. I still have yet to see either of them live but am anticipating it! Those two are the bands that I'd love to tour with right now. All their records are killer! Another band that I am hopefully going tour with is the Used -- psych!!! Actually, I want to tour with the Darkest Hour guys. We played a few shows with them and they're awesome! Everybody stay chillaxed and come hang out with us on Sounds of The Underground this summer."

It looks like the chillaxed guitarist will get one of his wishes, anyway. This fall, Job For a Cowboy are scheduled to hit the road with Behemoth and Gojira.

Now, here's Gojira's "To Sirius":