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...