On the September 15 edition of Headbangers Ball we'll be playing some awesome stuff including the new video by Heaven and Hell for "The Mob Rules" and the Trivium video for "To The Rats." If you can't wait to see the Trivium vid, here it is for your viewing pleasure.:

The answer to yesterday's Indecipherable Logo of the Day is a) Thornafire.

The band hails from Santiago, Chile and plays blasphemous, semi-melodic death metal powered by complex riffs, minor key atmospheres and abundant blast beats.

Thornafire formed in 1995 when frontman César Acuña got together with guitarists David Liempi and Víctor Mac-Namara, bassist Alexis Muñoz and drummer Víctor Vergara (drums).

A year later, the band recorded the two-song demo "Granded for all Somberness." The  disc helped Thornafire build a solid reputation in the Chilean death metal scene, then, after undergoing several lineup changes, the band released the six-song EP MCD Mortus Tenebrae Surrectus.

To support the EP, Thornafire spent 2003 touring vigorously throughout Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. They released another demo, Sin and Flesh Devotion, in 2004 before starting work on their first full-length album, Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation, which came out earlier this year.

With all the craziness going on between Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, and Tommy Lee and Mötley Crüe, we almost forgot that Motley bassist Nikki Sixx has a new addiction -- talking to everyone who'll listen to him about the evils of hard drugs. In our final installment of Sixx's guest blog series, the rocker comes clean about how taking a firm stance against everything he once embraced has been a high point of his life. Remember kids, just say blow, errrr, no.

For me personally, to be the first rock artist on Capitol Hill to share his story and help raise awareness about one of America’s biggest problems, which, in reality, is also a global epidemic, is a highlight of my career and life.

I don’t know if any of you saw that USA Today reported in September last year that drugs and alcohol now affect one in five Americans. Read more...

In response to recent reports that Tommy Lee has quit Motley Crue, the drummer has issued the following statement: "I am a founding member of Motley Crue. Based on internal band issues aired publicly, my future with the band is uncertain. I have tried to meet with my bandmates repeatedly without success but have informed them that I'm not walking away from my band of 25 years. It troubles me that the current legal issues which were filed by the corporations against my personal manager are separating us and causing more dysfunction. I hope we can work this out amongst ourselves." Read more...

Get out your thinking caps, cuz it's time once again for the Indecipherable Logo of the Day. We're especially partial to the symmetry and razor-like edges in this band logo. It's kind of classy the way the letters all angle upward and meet in a tent-style peak. And if you look closely at in the middle of the top, you can see what looks like the head of the reaper -- or maybe that's just us envisioning our own doom. We've been coughing all day and our head is throbbing like it did after the last Motorhead show we saw.

Feel sorry for us, dammit! Here are your choices:

a) Thornafire b) Onornariel c) Jaundice 1 d) Entombed e) Pornafire

There's a look and style to South Korean films that conveys a sense of beauty and tension lacking from other Asian movies, whether they're horror, drama or action titles. "The City Of Violence" (Dragon Dynasty/Genius) by Seung-Wan Ryoo ("Arahan," "Crying Fist") is no exception. Comparable to Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 1" or one of Takashi Miike's mob movies, "The City of Violence is an unflinching revenge story about the interactions between a pack of former childhood friends; one has become a gang leader, another a common thug and a third a police officer in another city.

The story heats up when a fourth ex-friend, a former mob boss turned legit, is stabbed to death after taking on a pack of young punks. The remaining characters reunite at his funeral, but the story doesn't resemble "The Big Chill" for long. Pretty soon, the hero cop realizes something's fishy and the deeper he and his common thug pal delve into the mystery, the uglier and more violent it becomes. Along the way, the investigation reveals a tangle of unethical loan sharking, opportunism, hatred and revenge, all of which is really just an excuse for some top notch martial arts scenes in which fists, feet, sticks, knives and swords all prove equally lethal.

In the end, the two main character, driven by their unbridled fury, sacrifice pretty much everything -- their friends, families and wellbeing -- in the pursuit of revenge. While Roo's choreographed fight scenes are amazing, the cinematography is incredible as well; throughout the film the camera is almost as mobile and acrobatic as the fighters. But the success of "The City of Violence" lies in Roo's ability to keep the viewer's hearts racing without an abundance of explosions or gun battles. Even if the plot of "Acts of Death" isn't terribly original or unpredictable the execution will make you completely forget you've seen this kind of stuff before until after the final credits roll. Read more...

Some addition information has surfaced about the attack early Monday morning that left Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds hospitalized with a severe head injury and a broken nose. According to a story on MTVnews.com, it looks like Hinds provoked the attacker. Read more...

Since we're driven by metal and fascinated with tattoos, we figured it was high time to reach out to heavy metal tattoo genius Paul Booth and ask him to toss us a guest blog. Well, it turns out Booth is as prolific with a pen as he is with a tattoo needle. He sent us numerous anecdotes about his misadventures with metal legends, all of which are well worth the ink (get it, ink?) they're printed on. So, we decided to give Booth a weekly outlet for tattoo tales that'll continue until he runs out of stories or suffers repetitive stress injury from writing and can no longer tattoo rock stars. Here's the first edition of Paul Booth's Thrashin' Ink.

I met Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera at a tattoo convention out in either Arizona or California. I can’t recall which, but I remember the meeting clear as day. Igor had a mutual friend introduce us because he felt weird coming up and approaching me. The funny thing was I was a huge Sepultura fan and, had I known he was there, I probably would’ve bugged the s--- out of him. Read more...

photo by Bob Gruen
A decade after the surviving members of Led Zeppelin played together at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert, singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bassist John Paul Jones will reunite again with the late John Bonham's son, Jason, on drums on November 26 for a one-off concert to honor late Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun.

"During the Zeppelin years, Ahmet Ertegun was a major foundation of solidarity and accord," Plant said in a statement. "For us he was Atlantic Records and remained a close friend and conspirator — this performance stands alone as our tribute to the work and the life of our long-standing friend." Read more...

Two days after the August 28 release of their new album Lead Sails Paper Anchor, Atreyu filmed a show at Soma in San Diego, California. It's unclear whether the footage will be used for an upcoming DVD or special, but the band said in a statement, "We don't film shows often and every time we have it's been a blast." Read more...