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All good things must come to an end, and so we bring you the final clip from our five-part series with Type O Negative. Here, the band talks about its new album, Dead Again, and how, during its creation, the album was a labor of frustration, but that in the end, it blossomed into a heavy and textural disc that resounded with its own identity. As the bandmembers explain, Dead Again is the result of six months of intensive jamming and stands as one of Type O's most honest and visceral bodies of work.

But enough of our yappin'.:

As threatened, here's the new video from Blessthefall, "Guys Like You Make Us Look Bad."

The Phoenix, Arizona Christian metalcore band will be tearing it up on the Warped Tour all summer long. Their next gig is July 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dates run through August 25 in Los Angeles.

Now, here's the video:

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Well, this one isn't exactly indecipherable, but if you don't already know the band you might have a hard time figuring out what the letters stand for. Here are your options:

a) Fall ov Serafim b) Fallout Boy Outrageously Suck c) Fiends of Satan d) Fate of Saturn

For their first ever tour in 1990, Type O Negative crammed into a van and hit the road with the Exploited and Biohazard. As frontman Peter Steele explained in a prior installment of "5 Days of Type O Negative," he had short hair at the time because he was on the verge of becoming a cop, then changed his mind and decided to take a stab at being a rock star instead. Had he known then what he knows now, he might be in a squad car right now writing tickets to motorists with double parked cars. Steele's absend from the fourth episode of "5 Days of Type O Negative," but his bandmates ably explain what the early days were like:

In Part 3 of our five-day video series with Type O Negative, the band talks about the lack of Brooklyn metal bands, and how, if it wasn't for them, Biohazard and Lamours, Brooklyn might never have had a heavy metal scene.

Arizona Christian metalcore band Blessthefall will premiere their new video for "Guys Like You Make Us Look Bad" on Friday right here on Headbangersblog.com.

The track comes from the band's new album His Last Walk, which was released on April 10. Blessthefall are currently walking on water on the Warped Tour, where they'll remain until August 25 in Los Angeles.

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It was meant to be family getaway with the kids at a Massachusetts zoo -- a chance to escape the voluble torrents of heavy metal and the malicious winds of evil for the day. But the devil was not to be denied.

While taking snapshots of caged monkeys, hungry llamas and giant mating turtles, this vision from beyond the black swam before our camera lens, and the sunshiny afternoon turned to the terror of darkest night. 

The Beast threatened to turn the place into a pile of smoldering ash unless we succumbed to his vilest wishes and paid him homage on Headbangersblog.com on July 4 instead of grilling hot dogs and cutting slices of apple pie. So, before we leave to catch the fireworks, we present:

Heavy Metal's 5 Best Uses of the Goat:

1: Floatin' the Goat: Otherwise known as flashing the devil horns or the goat horns. Although Gene Simmons claims he invented the salute by accident, Ronnie James Dio insists he was the first to use the sign as a heavy metal gesture. Although, to truly represent a symbol of evil, as Megadeth's Dave Mustaine once told us, the thumb should not be wrapped around the front of the middle two digits. Instead, it should be extended along with the middle fingers to form a point that represents the animal's snout.

2: Venom's "Welcome to Hell": The cover art of the band's 1981 album depicted a goat's face inside the star of a pentagram. The evil album pre-dated black metal, but it would be Venom's 1982 record Black Metal that coined the term.

3: Slayer's "Reign in Blood": In addition to defining the very pinnacle of thrash metal, this 1986 offering featured some sick cover art -- a procession through a river of flames led by a goat hoisted high on a throne. Decapitated heads on sticks merely add to the gruesome effect.

4: Bathory's cover art for self-titled debut: The white goat's head on black background is a viciously simple and effective image. The same adjectives could be used to describe the primitive 1984 album, which is widely regarded as extremely influential on the first wave of Norwegian black metal bands, including Mayhem, Darkthrone and Emperor.

5: The tattoo of a goat's head on the bicep of Behemoth frontman Nergal: Maybe it's not the biggest or more wicked looking tattoo of a goat, but few characters in modern death/black metal seem so in tune with the teachings of the devil's scholars or as likely to bring those ideas to mainstream metal fans as Nergal. The best thing to come from Poland since pierogies.

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Music by Napalm Death, Brutal Truth, A.C., Sore Throat and O.L.D. are being featured in an award-winning multi-media art exhibition in Madrid, Spain.

The exhibit at the La Casa Encendida gallery is called "Ruidos, Silencios y la Transgresion Mordaz De Fluxus al Techno-Noise ("Noises, Silences and the Biting Transgression From Fluxus to Techno-Noise"), and according to the promotional literature, it "portrays a creative link between artists belonging to the Fluxus group and their fascination with out-there music."

We're guessing they got a grant from the dudes at the Earache label or something, because their choices for noise all come from the company that anchored grindcore in the late '80s: "Scum" by Napalm Death (pictured above), "Everyone Should be Killed" by A.C., "Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses" by Brutal Truth, "Disgrace to the Corpse of Sid" by Sore Throat and "Old Lady Drivers" by O.L.D.

"The artists involved claim to express rejection of traditional values and pursue an interest in noise within their work, particularly forming a connection between noise and transgression," reports Blabbermouth.net. "With this in mind, soundbites from some of Earache's most grinding releases prove fitting to express the artists' ideas and visions."

The exhibit will remain on display until September 9. Napalm Death's "Mass Appeal Madness" video will be on display here until Hell freezes over: 

In part two of our five-day series with Type O Negative, frontman Peter Steele talks about the first time the band played live. The gig was at the legendary Lamours club in Brooklyn in 1990 and the crowd wasn't overly enthused, setting the stage for a lengthy career of doom and gloom that's changed the eyeliner-streaked face of goth metal.

And now, 17 years in, Type O Negative are still piercing throats with their dramatic, dynamic, volume-packed rock. The band's latest album, Dead Again, came out March 13, and it's as good as anything the band has done in almost a decade. Check it out. Now, here's Steele:

We teased it on Friday and we're sure you've been losing sleep waiting for us to post the damn thing. Here it is! The exclusive premiere of In This Moment's new 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.

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