Holy crap! It looks like some gutsy (or foolhardy) soul in the programming department took our tongue-in-cheek recommendation to air this bloodbath of a music video literally, and it is somehow slipped right by the standards department and onto the airwaves on last Saturday's show. The clip features a man who accidentally runs over a little girl, then buries her to cover-up his heinous deed. But the young-un's soul doesn't rest and she lashes out "Evil Dead" style to murder the manslaughterer in a tangle of bloody vines and vomited intestines. If you've got a strong stomach click "more" to watch Wretched's "A Preservation of Immortality."

We've loved these guys since we first heard their 2006 EP One by One, the Wicked Fall -- probably because we've always loved thrash and have always dug Warbringer's biggest influences, Exodus and Slayer. Click more to watch the video for "Sever Reality," which comes from their new album, Waking Into Nightmares, which was produced by Exodus guitarist Gary Holt. The clip was shot by Dave Brodsky, who has directed more cool videos than you can shake a B.C. Rich at. Read more...

These dudes have been through the ringer since they first hit the airwaves with the single "Bodies" in 2001. The single was crucified after 911, their original singer died, they've been through two other vocalists, struggled through label hassles and endured multiple incidents of theft. But all the while, Drowning Pool have hung in there to rock the rafters. The band has just released their new video "Shame," which is featured on their recent greatest hits collection Lowest Common Denominator and originally appeared on the 2007 album Full Circle. Click "more" if you think you can take the shame. 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...

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...

On Saturday, "Headbangers Ball" will debut the new Amon Amarth video "Guardians of Asgaard." The clip features a cameo by Entombed's L.G. Petrov and comes from the band's seventh album Twilight of the Thunder God. This week's "Headbangers" will air at 2 a.m. on MTV2. Click "more" to watch the video now. Read more...

Cincinnati Christian metal band Corpus Christi premiered their new video, "Fight For Your King" on the last episode of "Headbangers Ball" on Saturday night on MTV2. Click "more" now to see the online premiere. Read more...

Here's the new video from As I Lay Dying, "I Never Wanted."

"We've talked about doing a video for I Never Wanted for quite some time now," says guitarist Phil Sgrosso. "Most videos that we've done have been for more fast and aggressive songs that have the usual AILD sound to it but we wanted to mix things up and have a slower (but still heavy!) video that would be made up of footage from our new DVD, 'This Is Who We Are.'" Read more...

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Having shot a couple dozen or so videos, Slipknot have become masters of the art -- so much so that percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan has co-directed the last two of the band's clips with Paul Brown. The latest, "Sulfur," is visually stunning, creepy and conceptual in a way the Iowa band have never been before. Click "more" to read Crahan's description of the video and to watch the Internet premiere. See it again on Saturday on "Headbangers Ball," which airs from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...

In the Shirley Bassey song "Diamonds Are Forever," which was the theme track for the 1971 James Bond movie of the same name, the British chanteuse croons, "Diamonds are forever/They are all I need to please me/They can stimulate and tease me/They won't leave in the night."

Experience has taught Bassey to seek possession over passion and that diamonds have enough value to heal her torn heart. By contrast, the Bring Me the Horizon song "Diamonds Aren't Forever," from the British metalcore's 2008 sophomore record Suicide Season implies that nothing has value since life is but ephemeral. "Throw diamonds in the sky/We'll stay gold forever/I can promise you one thing/ Death will take us all/ I can promise you one thing/ You will die alone/ We're all going to hell, we may as well go out in style."

Clearly Bring Me the Horizon have impact, but if you ask us, Bassey has more panache, and the film intro to "Diamonds are Forever" is pretty damn hot. The again, the video for "Diamonds Aren't Forever" is killer too, in a totally different way. Check it out now, and see it again on Saturday's "Headbangers Ball," which airs from 2 to 3 a.m. on MTV2.
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