The first video from the upcoming Static-X album, Cult of Static, is kind of about a Chevy Corvette Stingray, but it's more specifically about the driver of the car, ex-adult film actress Tera Wray, who married Static-X frontman Wayne Static last year and stars in the video. According to Wayne, "Stingwray" is a heavy metal love song that encapsulates the danger, excitement and passion of their relationship. Click "more" to watch the video and catch it again on "Headbangers Ball," which airs Saturday from 2 to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...
On Saturday's edition of "Headbangers Ball," we've got the worldwide on-air debut of the new Today is the Day video "Free at Last." Click "more" to see it first right here and read comments by frontman Steve Austin. Read more...
If you've been waiting a while for Charlotte, North Carolina progressive metalcore band A Hero a Fake to come to your home town, you're gonna have to wait a little longer. Four of the guys are still in college and don't graduate until May, at which point they plan to hit the road with a vengeance.
However, being full-time students hasn't stopped them from spending a lot of their spare moments on the band. Their debut album, Volatile, came out in October 2008, and they even found time to shoot a video for the song "I Know I." Click more to watch it and catch it on the big screen Saturday night on "Headbangers Ball," which airs between 2 and 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...
In a mere four days, Canadian metalcore band Arise and Ruin will release their second album, Night Storms Hailfire, a pulverizing slab of volume and aggression that the group describe thusly: "Imagine if Hatebreed and Integrity got into a brawl with Slayer and Entombed in the middle of a show that Motorhead and Venom were playing." We couldn't have said it better ourselves... Well, maybe we could, but it's late and we're tired. Click "more" to watch the video of "Forever Damned" and catch it again on Saturday night's "Headbangers Ball," which runs from 2 to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...
If you love good German thrash, World of Warcraft, "Conan the Barbarian" or other random acts of senseless violence, you owe it to yourself to check out the new video by Kreator, "Hordes of Chaos." See it on the big screen tomorrow night between 2 and 3 a.m. on MTV2's "Headbangers Ball." Click "more" to watch the clip. Read more...
For the rest of the month, Baltimore, Maryland death metal/grindcore pugilists Misery Index will be wrapping up their North American tour with Black Dahlia Murder and Soilent Green, then they'll head over to Europe for a tour with Hate Eternal, Aeon and See You Next Tuesday which launches January 9 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Before they head off, we'd like to toast their continued success by premiering their new video for "Traitors." The clip was directed by Dave Brodsky of MyGoodEye in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and rips like a pantleg snagged on a rusty nail. Forgive our crappy simile and click "more" to watch the vid and read the band's comments. Read more...
At a time when fans and critics and putting together their year end top ten lists, Testament pop up with a video for "More Than Meets the Eye" to remind us all not to forget their latest album, The Formation of Damnation, which came out early this year. Even if it's a calculated move, it's a relevant one. In the wake of new albums by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Meshuggah and Unearth, to name but a few, it's easy for a record that came out in April to slip between the cracks. And slip, it should not.
The Formation of Damnation is not only the first studio album of new material by Testament in nine years, and a disc that reunites almost all of the band's powerhouse lineup for the first time since 1994, it's also a multifaceted, dynamic powder keg that puts the group back on the map in the middle of a serious thrash metal renaissance. Click more to watch the video and read comments by singer Chuck Billy, guitarist Eric Peterson and producer Kevin J. Custer (Kingdom of Sorrow, Beneath the Massacre) of Toaster in the Tub. Read more...
Funny, they don't look black metal. There's not a nailed armband or heavy-duty shinguard to be seen, none of the members are wearing corpse paint and the singer's got short friggin' hair! Still, with all their image flaws, Abigail Williams delivered one of the finest black metal albums of 2008, In The Shadow of a Thousand Suns, and their first video for the disc, "Into the Ashes," is pretty cool as well. Click "more" to watch the vid and see its on-air debut on this week's Headbangers Ball, which airs on Saturday from 2 to 3 a.m. Read more...
On Halloween, Tampa death metal veterans Six Feet Under weren't wearing black ski masks and smashing windows of all the old folks in their neighborhood. They were onstage tearing through old favorites and treating fans to some songs from their new album Death Rituals. During the show, they shot a new video for the song "Seed of Filth."
"This is one of our favorite songs from the album, one we' are just really stoked on," says frontman Chris Barnes. "Once again, we worked with director Mario D. Framingheddu, who has directed our videos for 'Ghosts of the Undead' and 'Doomsday.' We're really proud of this video and how it came out."
Click "more" to watch "Seed of Filth." And come back tomorrow to check out our podcast interview with Barnes. Read more...
The sparks fly on Abysmal Dawn's new video for "Programmed to Consume" -- literally.
There's a construction worker in the background of a warehouse set sliding a whirring buzzsaw up and down a steel beam while the band delivers a sturdy barrage of death metal, frontman Charles Elliott scowling and screaming his way to oblivion. There are electric eyes, whose irises open and shut menacingly, displaying the Abysmal ones on TV monitors.
Then there's that drain pipe dripping, then spewing black fluid onto the ground. Maybe that's why the guys look so pissed. These days plumbers charge $100 just to step in the door before they even flash their ludicrous repair estimates before your face. And since you're already $100 in the hole, nine times out of ten you'll give them the job rather fork out another estimate payment to another plumber.
A word of advice to the steelworker: If you keep sawing at that beam, all the teeth on the saw are gonna fly off and you'll have a harder time intimidating the plumber into lowering his fee.
To be honest, we're not completely sure what director Gary Smithson (High on Fire, Goatwhore) was after with all the imagery -- probably something about the oppressiveness of Big Brother and greedy plumbers. Click "more" to read Elliott's play-by-play comments about the shoot, then watch the video, which will debut on-air on Saturday's "Headbangers Ball," which runs from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. on MTV2. Read more...
