Massachusetts’ metal champions, THE ACACIA STRAIN, have launched the brand new video for the track, “The Hills Have Eyes,” exclusively at Myspace. The video was filmed by director David Brodsky:

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FOUR YEAR STRONG’s video for “It Must Really Suck to Be Four Year Strong Right Now” is this week’s iTunes free music video of the week. The song comes off the Massachusetts outfit’s Enemy of the World album.

Fans can download the video for free on iTunes here:  http://bit.ly/9eEhlb

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Massachusetts’ THE ACACIA STRAIN have premiered the fourth video documenting the odd occurrences since they finished recording their new album, Wormwood, out July 20 on Prosthetic Records. This time around, it’s announced guitarist D.L. is missing and several potential sightings on different continents are discussed. Watch it below:

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Massachusetts metal mavens, THE ACACIA STRAIN have unveiled the third video covering the time period and the odd occurrences since they finished recording their new album, “Wormwood,” out July 20 on Prosthetic Records. In this episode, viewers are brought up to speed on drummer Kevin Boutot’s odd legal and penal predicament drummer.

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Fast-rising doom rock trio BLACK PYRAMID has premiered its new music video for the song “Mirror Messiah”.  The powerful, straightforward clip was lensed at Massachusetts’ Valley Homegrown and features an audio mix courtesy of Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth).

The “Mirror Messiah” video drops hot on the heels of BLACK PYRAMID’s recent US tour dates in support of its much talked about full length debut Black Pyramid (MeteorCity Records).  Check out the video now:

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Massachusetts’ titans, THE ACACIA STRAIN have launched the third video blog documenting the recording of their new album. In this one, we discover what really goes on in the studio, and what singer Vincent Bennett’s rigorous daily regimen consists of. Bennett demonstrates he’s the hardest working vocalist in music today. The band recently entered Planet Z Studios with producer Zeuss to record the follow up to 2008’s, Continent. The album will be released later in 2010 by Prosthetic Records. Check out the video:

Don’t forget, the band has a live webcam in the studio daily between 12pm and 2pm EST over at:  www.livestream.com/theacaciastrain.Catch THE ACACIA STRAIN on the Cool Tour 2010 this summer.

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Massachusetts’ metal mammoths, THE ACACIA STRAIN have unleashed the first snippets of music from their, as of yet, untitled new record, in the second installment of their ongoing studio video blog series. The band recently entered Planet Z Studios with producer Zeuss to record the follow up to 2008’s, Continent. The album will be released later in 2010 by Prosthetic Records.

• The Acacia Strain Celebrate ‘Cool Tour 2010‘ with Video Studio Update
• As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me Headline the ‘Cool Tour 2010‘

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Blackened-thrash overlords, SKELETONWITCH, will play two free Scion shows this week; Wednesday the 10th in Atlanta and Thursday the 11th in Los Angeles. The Ohio titans will appear at both shows with Massachusetts’ DOOMRIDERS, who feature members of Converge and Cave In. The shows are all ages and free, but you must RSVP to attend. [...]

ALL THAT REMAINS have just premiered the video for “Forever In Your Hands” on Noisecreep.com.  The footage was filmed at this year’s Mayhem Festival and was directed by David Brodsky. Look out for cameos from members of bands like Killswitch Engage and God Forbid.

“Forever In Your Hands” comes off the Massachusetts outfit’s latest album, Overcome.

ARSIS, Virginia’s melodic/technical death metal band, has revealed the artwork by Mark Riddick for their upcoming Starve For The Devil album, set to be released in North America on February 9th, 2010.

Artwork and track listing for the North American jewel case version of Starve For The Devil:

1. Forced To Rock
2. A March For The Sick
3. From Soulless To Shattered (Art In Dying)
4. Beyond Forlorn
5. The Ten Of Swords
6. Closer To Cold
7. Sick Perfection
8. Half Past Corpse O’Clock
9. Escape Artist
10. Sable Rising

Music for Starve For The Devil was recorded with producer Zeuss (Municipal Waste, Agnostic Front, Hatebreed) at Planet Z Studios in Massachusetts.