What senses might those be? Well, when I’m not watching horror, sci-fi, action, or snuff, I have an appreciation for John Hughes-type of films. The sunny and perfectly manicured neighborhood and the clean-cut kids (even when slutting it up) in “Bulls in the Bronx” taps into the ’80s teen romance genre, which is always nice to get nostalgic about. As such, the video also has a theme, which is always better than shots of the band playing their instruments.

The second element of “Bulls in the Bronx” that I like has more to do with the song (shocker) than it does with the video (although the director, Drew Russ, was smart enough to incorporate it into the video). What I’m yammering on about is the song’s bridge, featuring a Spanish-inspired breakdown. This shows us that Pierce the Veil has a sense for songwriting in their post-hardcore subgenre that wasn’t generally as well developed in the hardcore subgenre.

“I really wanted to have a story people could relate to, as well as have a fun supernatural element to fit the bridge of the song,” Russ recently told MTV.com. “To me, this is such a standout song, and when the bridge hits, it almost transports the listener to another place. I really wanted to represent that on camera.”

The video for “Bulls In The Bronx” is the band’s third video from their widely popular album, Collide With The Sky, which has sold over 100,000 copies since release. Previous videos include “Hell Above” and “King for a Day,” which was also directed by Russ.

Excuse me now, while I go kill myself.

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It’s a great track with everything you’d expect from Chthonic: traditional-sounding incantation, frenetic riffage, tight song structure, chanting, and a message you can’t understand. It’s also apparent that expenses were put into its production.

Bú-Tik will hit the streets on May 29, 2013 (JP) and June 3, 2013 (EU, U.S., Asia).

Bú-Tik track listing:

1. “Arising Armament (Intro)”
2. “Supreme Pain for the Tyrant”
3. “Sail into the Sunset’s Fire”
4. “Next Republic”
5. “Rage of my Sword”
6. “Between Silence and Death”
7. “Resurrection Pyre”
8. “Set Fire to the Island”
9. “Defenders of Bu-tik Palace”
10. “Undying Rearmament (Outro)”

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Melvins

The Melvins are putting out an album of covers, titled Everybody Loves Sausages, and they’ve just started streaming “You’re My Best Friend,” originally by Queen. Queen is legendary, and despite my predilection toward metal, they’ve always been among my favorite bands.

Stream The Melvins’ cover of “You’re My Best Friend” at noisey.vice.com.

Before settling in to have a listen to The Melvins do this song, I was tepid; most Queen covers fail miserably, mostly because vocalists just can’t compete with the late Freddie Mercury. It’s usually best when they don’t, as Puscifer did on “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But the vocals on The Melvins’ cover, which features Caleb Benjamin of Tweak Bird, are great. The track also features the full Melvins lineup: Dale Crover, Buzz Osborne, Coady Willis, and Jarred Warren.

The Melvins didn’t go all-out gaming mode with “You’re My Best Friend,” but there is a distinctive 8-bit element to the track. I don’t think everyone will like it, but there is a certain appeal to it. At least it’s an original take on a mostly straight cover of a classic tune.

Everybody Loves Sausages is set for an April 30th release date via Ipecac. The 13-track album features guests Mark Arm, Jello Biafra, JG Thirlwell, and Scott Kelly on a wide variety of songs including Venom’s “Warhead,” Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home A Heartache,” and The Scientists’ “Set It On Fire.”

The complete track listing with original artist and guest player notation:
1. Warhead (Venom; Guest: Scott Kelly of Neurosis)
2. You’re My Best Friend (Queen; Guest: Caleb Benjamin of Tweak Bird)
3. Black Betty (Ram Jam)
4. Set It On Fire (The Scientists; Guest: Mark Arm)
5. Station To Station (David Bowie; Guest: JG Thirlwell)
6. Attitude (The Kinks: Guest: Clem Burke of Blondie)
7. Female Trouble (Divine, written by John Waters)
8. Carpe Diem (The Fugs)
9. Timothy Leary Lives (Pop-O-Pies)
10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music; Guests: Jello Biafra and Kevin Rutmanis)
11. Romance (Tales of Terror)
12. Art School (The Jam; Guest: Tom Hazelmeyer)
13. Heathen Earth (Throbbing Gristle)

The Melvins have also confirmed a June 1 performance on Scion Rock Fest in Memphis as well as a handful of U.S. dates in late May. The band will travel to Europe in April for a number of Melvins and Melvins Lite performances.

Melvins Lite Tour Dates:
Apr. 23 Tourcoing, France Le Grand Mix
Apr. 24 Brussels, Belgium VK* Concerts
Apr. 25 Haarlem, Netherlands Patronaat
Apr. 26 Cologne, Germany Burgerhaus Stollwerck
Apr. 27 Luxembourg Kulturfabrik
Apr. 28 Schorndorf, Germany Club Manufaktur
Apr. 29 Geneva, Switzerland L’Usine
Apr. 30 Livorno, Italy The Cage
May 1 Milan, Italy Bloom
May 2 Munich, Germany Hansa 39
May 3 Prague, Czech Republic Matrix
May 4 Wroclaw, Poland Asymmetry Festival
May 5 Leipzig, Germany UT Connewitz

Melvins Tour Dates:

May 7 & 8 Berlin, Germany Festsaal Kreuzberg
May 10 & 11 Paris, France Trabendo
May 13 & 14 Vienna, Austria Arena Wien
May 16 & 17 Zurich, Switzerland Rote Fabrik
May 19 & 20 London, UK Electric Brixton
May 25 Baltimore, MD Maryland Deathfest
May 27 Millvale, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre
May 28 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
May 29 Cincinnati OH The Ballroom at the Taft Theatre
June 1 Memphis, TN Scion Rock Fest

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Finnish heavy metal act, Amorphis, also known as the masters of melancholic dark metal, have just released the official lyric video for “Hopeless Days.” Now you can enjoy this track with a couple of fine pints of Huvila X-Porter. “Hopeless Days” is the first single taken off the band’s next release, Circle, and the exclusive CD-single is now available at Nuclear Blast.

This is the band’s 11th full-length studio album, which has been in the works since August of last year, and just over a month ago it was announced that Circle is slated for April 19th in Europe and April 30th in North America.

Pekka Kainulainen once again wrote the lyrics for Circle, and the summary of the concept/story of the album can be read right below:

“The protagonist has been dealt a bad hand at birth. He’s always felt himself an outsider with strong potential to become marginalized. Through an accident, after a crisis, he finds a connection with his inner powers. A guide is sent to him, from some other time and place. He gets a chance to take hold of his own life and change his destiny. From the past of Carelian, Finland, he finds his own spiritual tribe and the power to turn the course of his doomed life. This is a story of survival.”

Frontman, Tomi Joutsen, said the following about the album’s title:

“Circle represents integrity. Back in the days, when there was something special to talk about, wise men used to sit in circle. Not everyone was invited to join them. But in this story, the protagonist was invited among the wise men’s circle.”

Check it out, and don’t forget to leave your thoughts about “Hopeless Days” in the comments section below.

As I Lay Dying preceded the release of their sixth full-length studio album, Awakened, with a highly successful run on 2012′s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival where the band rotated between the side and main stages. Just before Awakened dropped via Metal Blade Records on September 25th, the band released their first production video for the album for the track “A Greater Foundation.” Fans instantly took to the Internet to express their love of the new song and to discuss the relevance of the lyrics.

As I Lay Dying & The Devil Wears Prada Tour Dates:

w/ For Today, The Color Morale

02/28 Los Angeles, CA – Club Nokia
03/01 San Diego, CA – SOMA
03/02 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
03/03 El Paso, TX – Tricky Falls
03/05 Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street
03/06 San Antonio, TX – Backstage Live **
03/07 Dallas, TX – House of Blues **

w/ For Today, The Chariot

03/08 Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Events Center
03/09 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
03/10 Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre
03/12 Nashville, TN – Rocketown
03/13 Charlotte, NC – Amos Southend
03/14 Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
03/15 Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
03/16 Silver Springs, VA – The Fillmore
03/17 Hartford, CT – Webster Theatre
03/19 Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock
03/20 Long Island, NY – Paramount Theater
03/21 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
03/22 Buffalo, NY – Infinity
03/23 Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
03/24 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
03/25 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
03/27 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
03/28 Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
03/29 Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Club
03/30 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
04/01 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
04/02 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
04/03 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
04/04 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
** No For Today

Any video that begins with a disclaimer that states “The following video contains violence…” is something that we’re going to get excited about. And “Premeditated” comes with violence, bloody violence. It’s a torture type of violence that starts out with body parts being hacked up and tossed into a bucket. Then we get a man, lead singer Landon Tewers, strapped in a chair with a towel over his head (no waterboarding in this video, sorry), waiting to have extreme pain inflicted upon him. Fingers being cut off with dirty instruments, torso cutting, scalps being hacked into, etc. Yeah, it’s a bloody mess.

The song is about getting revenge on a rapist, which is something we can get behind. I mean, we would all (hopefully) feel inclined to exact revenge on a perpetrator if they harmed one of our loved ones. Whether we would act on our feelings or not is an entirely different topic.

Good on The Plot In You for bringing this to everyone’s attention. So, I have to ask you, Yellers, is physically harming someone for the purposes of revenge ever justified? Leave your comments below.

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The video was directed by Mike King and stars Maynard James Keenan and the tripped-out, lipstick-plastered comedian Dina Martina. The video clearly pays respect to Queen and also includes vintage movie clips. It’s an odd piece that looks like it walked off the set of MTV’s Liquid Television. It’ll make you feel uncomfortable, and it’ll make you laugh (air guitar on a spatula, massive camel toe).

Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Bad Religion released their latest effort, True North, last month and they’ve finally made the video for the title track available. The video features a boy in his room, which is adorned with posters of punk legends like Youth of Today, Circle Jerks, T.S.O.L., Dead Kennedys, Descendents, and more. In a way, the video reminds me of a video from The Replacements, “Bastards of Young.”

I like the video for “True North” and what it’s trying to do, as guitarist and songwriter Brett Gurewitz offers,

“True North in many ways is Bad Religion getting back to where we’re from. The video tries to capture what that looked like for us and a thousand other kids; maybe even some kids today.”

What I don’t like is the “punk” kid looks like a mall punk and also a bit too much like Justin Beiber. But, I can’t fault the video for that.

Bad Religion will be heading out on tour to perform in support of their new album True North starting this March.

Bad Religion Tour Dates:

3/8/2013 OC Fair & Event Center Costa Mesa CA
3/9/2013 Soma San Diego CA
3/12/2013 Backstage Live San Antonio TX
3/13/2013 House of Blues Houston TX
3/14/2013 House of Blues Dallas TX
3/16/2013 The Ritz Ybor Tampa FL
3/17/2013 House of Blues- Orlando Orlando FL
3/19/2013 The Masquerade Atlanta GA
3/20/2013 War Memorial Auditorium Nashville TN
3/22/2013 9:30 Club Washington DC
3/23/2013 The Wellmont Theatre Montclair NJ
3/24/2013 Electric Factory Philadelphia PA
3/26/2013 Terminal 5 New York NY
3/28/2013 House of Blues Boston MA
3/29/2013 State Theatre Portland ME
3/30/2013 Metropolis Montreal QC
3/31/2013 Kool Haus Toronto ON
4/2/2013 St. Andrews Hall Detroit MI
4/4/2013 Newport Music Hall Columbus OH
4/5/2013 Congress Theatre Chicago IL
4/6/2013 Pops Nightclub Sauget IL
4/8/2013 Granada Theater Lawrence KS
4/10/2013 The Fillmore Denver CO
4/11/2013 In The Venue Salt Lake City UT
4/13/2013 Vogue Theater Vancouver BC
4/14/2013 Roseland Theater Portland OR
4/15/2013 Showbox SoDo Seattle WA
4/18/2013 Hollywood Palladium Hollywood CA
4/20/2013 TBD Phoenix AZ
5/26/2013 Punk Rock Bowling Las Vegas NV

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It’s a graphic video, one that has a censored version (included above because the censor tag is a bit humorous) and an uncut version (below). I get that we don’t want to teach children how to use drug paraphernalia, but is cooking a spoon really more censor-worthy than someone tearing their flesh off?

Fresh off their European trek with Vader, Aborted has now announced a Japanese tour with System Divide, Devour the Martyr, and Empire. See below for all upcoming tour dates:

Aborted Japanese tour 2013 with System Divide, Devour the Martyr, and Empire

Feb. 14–Tokyo, Japan @ Wildside
Feb. 15–Osaka Shi, Japan @ PANGEA
Feb. 16–Fukuoka, Japan @ Early Believers
Feb. 17–Shizuoka, Japan @ Sunash
Feb. 18–Sendai, Japan @ Flying Son

ABORTED – Expurgation (UNCENSORED) from Century Media Records on Vimeo.

“Expurgation Euphoria” lyrics:
“As time passes by you inhale your last breath
With every shot you march one step closer to your death
Just a leprous mongrel digging his own grave
And paving his way through a pile of misery
Atrocity of man, symbol of decay
Intricate solution, sepsis sets in

With every shot and every high your end seeps in
The euphoria you seek marks your atrophy
Iodine reaps and marks your destiny
With an artificial high your skin bleaks,
Insert the needle, again and again

Expurgating abscess, hemoglobic decay
A rotten mess, you finally became
Expurgation euphoria, until the bitter end”

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Please post a comment and let us know what you think of the track. And once you’ve finished vomiting, go ahead and remember what the original was like below.

Slayer – “Angel of Death”

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