Congratulations to Pelican, whose new video "Lost in the Headlines" has been voted back by readers for next week's episode of "Headbangers Ball." You guys also weighed in strongly for Norma Jean and Opeth, but in the end Pelican emerged victorious. And despite our strong endorsement of Blind Myself's "Lost in Time," the clip garnered not a single vote.

Click "more" to watch "Lost in the Headlights" and to vote for the Best Videos of 2008. Read more...

photo by Ryan Russell

If you say the name of Pelican's new video real fast it sounds like "Lost in the Head Lice." Fortunately, they make special shampoos that can kill those nasty little bloodsucking bugs and the eggs they lay in your scalp.

Anyway, here's what guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec has to say about the new video, which was directed by Kenneth Thomas.

Ken had done a fantastic job with footage on our "After the Ceiling Cracked" DVD. Incidentally, he also looks like Clark Kent, so you want to just trust the guy. Although the narrative flow from our "Dead Between The Walls" video continues loosely on this new one, Ken's vision here was more focused on adapting texture and environment to the song's flow.

Ken and [drummer] Larry [Herweg] worked hard to find fitting locations, and eventually we settled on a rooftop in desolate downtown Los Angeles, as well as Switzer Falls in Angeles National Forest. We're immensely pleased with the results, and we'd like to thank all those who worked hard to adapt visuals to the journey. Thanks to Ken, Stephen Broasch (who took amazing still photos that were incorporated toward the end of the song), Juan Perez and his lovely hound, J Bennett, Sera, and the extended volunteer crew.

Click "more" to watch the video for "Lost in the Head Lice," errr, "Lights." Read more...

We encourage bands on tour overseas to forget about rockin' for little while and take in their surroundings. However, we don't advise said bands to leave their gear in the van while they're sightseeing. Maybe it would have been better to offer such words of wisdom last week -- before the dudes in Pelican had everything they owned stolen from a van in Italy.

The bandmembers found themselves with a half hour to spare before they had to head to their venue in Rome, so they parked the van and spent 20 glorious minutes walking around the Coliseum. When they returned, they discovered they had been robbed on a major street in broad daylight. (click "more" to read about the robbery, hear Pelican's plea for help and watch a couple of the group's cool videos. Read more...

The correct answer to yesterday's Indecipherable Logo of the Day is:

f) Lesbian

Why would four dudes from Seattle call themselves Lesbian? "Because its name evokes pure, sexually charged freedom -- and that's what rock is all about." That comes from the band's own press release, not us, so you know it's got to be true.

The group's debut album, Power Hor, is an amalgam of various incendiary styles, including psychedelic, doom, thrash, black, progressive and classic metal, and the four lengthy songs on the disc stomp and lumber like a brontosaurus leveling a lesbian gym.

"Fans of bands like Neurosis, Emperor, Skullflower, Boris, Pelican, Sleep and Isis now have a band that amazingly sounds like a hybrid of all of those legendary groups." Again, that's the publicist's words, not ours. We simply cannot find words to describe this synapse-frazzling, genre-defying thunderstorm of broken glass, bile and beer.

Stream the whole record here and judge for yourself.