In 1993 my band Prong released a record called Cleansing. It featured a song called "Snap Your Fingers ,Snap Your Neck". Who knew that 16 years later I would still be breaking my back doing Prong, and busting my ass, literally, on a weird diet called the "Master Cleanse." Read more...

Here's a video you won't be seeing this week on "Headbangers Ball," or any other week for that matter. The band is Wretched and their label, Victory, calls their video for "A Preservation of Immortality," "The Bloodiest Music Video Ever." Clearly, they're biased, but we have to admit Wretched's clip is pretty horrifying, and not in that it's-so-wretched-it-makes-me-shiver kind of way. The video is about a dude who runs over a little girl, and instead of being irresponsible and reporting his crime, he does the sensible thing. He cleans off his car and buries her body. Of corpse (typo intended), no good deed goes unpunished and the poor dude gets attacked by vines in a bloodbath of a scene that "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi should probably contact his lawyers about. Click "more" to watch "A Preservation of Immortality." Read more...

Queensryche are currently in the middle of a tour for their new album American Soldier. On May 15 they played New York's Nokia Theater and rocked the crowd with a set of songs that spanned their entire career. Click "more" to watch some pretty decent video of "Walk in the Shadows" from the 1986 album Rage For Order. Read more...

We first heard Abattoir on the 1983 compilation album Metal Massacre IV, which also featured Trouble, Lizzy Borden and Zoetrope. So much did we like the band's screechy song "Screams From the Grave," that we scurried out to purchase the band's 1985 debut Vicious Attack when it came out. Sadly, the band's two follow-ups kind of blew, and in the late '80s Abattoir herded themselves to the slaughter house. So, imagine our surprise when we discovered the band recently reunited to play the Keep it True Festival XII in Germany on April 24. We certainly hope there's more to come. Click "more" to watch Abbatoir perform "The Only Safe Place/Bring on the Damned" and "Game of Death." at the show.
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photo by Joseph Cultice

A documentary film about the life of Ozzy Osbourne, "The Wreckage of My Past," is coming to theaters. The movie, which is scheduled for release some time in 2010, is being directed by Mike Piscitelli and was written and produced by Jordan Tappis. The executive producers for the film are Ozzy's son Jack Osbourne and wife and manager Sharon Osbourne, and the movie will be the first offering from Jack's production company, Jacko. Click "more" to watch a promotional clip.
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Peter Tägtgren is best known as the frontman for pioneering Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy, but he has also recorded some pretty cool electronic metal stuff with his other outfit Pain. The band has recently posted a video for "Monkey Business," a track from their latest album Cynic Paradise. The video was shot on March 23 and 24 at the Zenith in Paris. Click "more" for a little "Monkey Business." Read more...

While "Headbangers Ball" were on the West Coast the week of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards we hooked up with Lamb of God in Las Vegas for a good ol' southern style barbecue. The band, which is infamous for cookin' up some mighty tasty meats backstage at festivals like Ozzfest and Sounds of the Underground, were happy to fire up the grill and cook us some mean-ass lamb chops. Click "more" to watch the charcoal burn. Read more...

Metallica have posted a professionally shot video of a May 5 Hamburg, Germany performance of the ...And Justice For All track "Dyers Eve." Click "more" to watch it. Read more...

Baby-killer, daughter raper and overall potty mouth, Marilyn Manson, has released a video for the song "Arma-Goddamn-Motherf---in'-Geddon," the first single from his upcoming album The High End of Low. The video was directed by Delaney Bishop who has also worked with Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist and others. The new album is scheduled for release on May 26. Click "more" to watch the video, which was posted by the Brit rock mag NME. Read more...

Props to Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta for giving us the TV and online premieres of the new video by Thy Will Be Done, who are signed to his label, Stillborn. The clip will air on MTV2 on Saturday's "Headbangers Ball," which starts at 2 a.m. Click "more" to watch it now. Read more...