We can think of no better way to cap off our Halloween coverage than to slash into the latest DVD installment of "Horror Pain Gore Death." The fourth volume of the series features scenes from various gore movies, including "Opera," "Nekromantik 2" and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" edited to soundtracks by thrash and death metal bands including Massacre, Benediction, Forbidden, Nuclear Assault and Destruction. Click "more" to watch scenes from "Mad Butcher" atop Destruction's "Mad Butcher"; "Nightmare City" edited to "Nuclear Assault's "Radiation Sickness"; and "Deliria" alongside Num Skull's "Off With Your Head." Happy Halloween!!! Read more...
Impaled prepare for a night of trick or beating
To celebrate all things ghastly and ghoulish, we present Impaled's latest video for "G.O.R.E." The song comes from their 2007 album The Last Gasp. The Oakland, California band launches a tour of Canada on November 4 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Click "M.O.R.E." for "G.O.R.E." Read more...
Dave Mustaine is coming to prime time TV. No, the Megadeth frontman isn't getting his own reality show (but wouldn't that be great?!), one of the band's recent shows in San Diego, California is going to be broadcast on HDNet TV's "Concert Series" on November 2 at 8 p.m. EST, reports Blabbermouth.net.
The program, "Blood in the Water: Live in San Diego" features a set from the Cox Arena on the 2008 Gigantour tour. Click "more" to watch a preview of "Peace Sells." The concert will will be rebroadcast on Monday, November 3 at 2:30 a.m. EST. Read more...
Being Halloween and all, we found it appropriate to offer you the new video from The Haunted. "Moronic Colossus" was shot at this year's Wacken Open Air festival. "You might think releasing a live video as the first promo [for our new album Versus] would be odd," writes the band on its MySpace page. "But considering Versus was recorded live, we all felt that this was a pretty natural choice." Click more to watch the vid. Read more...
Last week, we debuted new live Machine Head videos for "Davidian" and "Aesthetics of Hate." Both are featured on the bonus DVD for the expanded edition of the band's last album, The Blackening. The disc also features a cover of Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name," which originally appeared on the tribute album, Maiden Heaven, which was included with a special edition of the British magazine Kerrang!. Click "more" to see a live video of the song. The clip was directed by Mike Sloat, who has filmed the band's clips for "Halo," "Now I Lay Thee Down" and "Aesthetics of Hate." Read more...
photo by Cody Smyth
Here's the last batch of clips from the "Headbangers Ball" roundtable discussion with Dee Snider, Riki Rachtman and Jamey Jasta. The event was hosted by Sirius programmer and personality Jose Mangin and covers all things metal. Watch the full roundtable on "Headbangers Ball" on Saturday on MTV2 at approximately 10:07. This week's show is a two-hour special that runs from 10 p.m. to midnight. And don't miss the premiere of Slipknot's "Dead Memories" video right here on HeadbangersBlog.com just after Midnight. Now click more to see the second batch of those roundtable clips: Read more...
The new Gojira album, The Way of all Flesh, is all about mortality and the lyrics are rife with messages of decay and destruction. It seems like some pretty nihilistic stuff. How strange, then, that when we invited frontman Joe Duplantier to write a guest blog, he submitted an essay about positive thinking. Clearly there's more to this man (and band) than meets the eye:
The way we think can affect ourselves and the world on a very profound way. It's obvious that positive thinking is a force that brings oneself forward and our intentions and ideas have an impact on life in general.
An example of negative thinking: "I am weak, ugly and it is not cool to hang out with me." If I think this way, I'll look worried and sad, my self-confidence disappears and after a while, this thought becomes reality. I'll be on my own...
An example of positive thinking: "I am strong, nice, and I'm good company for others." In that case, I project a good energy and image of myself. The simple fact is that such an attitude will bring confidence and a relaxing vibe that will communicate something positive and constructive. (click "more" to read the rest of Duplantier's self-help seminar and watch the Gojira's "Vacuity" video. Read more...
The French may hate American politics, and perhaps, Americans as a whole, but they love Metallica almost as much as they adore Jerry Lewis. Last night, the band performed on the French TV program "Taratata" on France 4, and not long after it ended, the Metalllica portion was broadcast across the Net.
Click "more" to watch the band play "Cyanide," "The Day that Never Comes" and "Enter Sandman," and to see a short documentary and interview that's only partially in French. Catch more from Metallica on "MTV Essential: Metallica," which premieres on Monday at 11 p.m. on MTV2 during our 20th anniversary of "Headbangers Ball" celebration. Now, back to France:
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For their new video, "Honey and Sulfphur," Cradle of Filth entered a 22-mile long cave in Chislehurst, South London and surrounded themselves with acrobats, stilt-walkers and tons of lit torches. The track comes from the band's upcoming album, Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder, which comes out October 28. Click "more" to see a preview of the vid: Read more...
With Halloween around the corner and all, it seems like a good time to introduce this low budget slasher music video by Connecticut melodic death metal band Autumns Eyes. We especially like the sped-up shots of the hot chick sadistically carving the crap out of a pumpkin. But what goes around comes around, and before long some caped, masked evildoers are chasing her through the woods with their own sharpened blades.
The song comes from the band's latest EP Surrender the Fire, which includes a cover of Dimmu Borgir's "Mourning Palace." Click "more" to enjoy the EP and video in their entirety. Read more...
