HIMSA's "Sleezevil" video to debut this weekend on MTV2!

HIMSA's brand new music video for "Sleezevil," from the Prosthetic Records release Hail Horror, will make its television debut this Saturday, Feb. 18, on a 60-minute edition of MTV2's "Headbangers Ball." Directed by Derek Dale, who also handled the "Rain To The Sound of Panic" video from Himsa's critically-acclaimed 'Courting Tragedy And Disaster' album, the "Sleezevil" footage was shot over Halloween weekend in downtown Los Angeles and promises to show fans and newcomers alike another side of the band, reflecting HIMSA's dark sense of humor. Mixing scantily clad nurses, mad doctors, and mosh pits, the "Sleezevil" video recalls the glory days of tongue-in-cheek 80s metal videos, while combining modern-day heavy metal intensity and credibility. Photos from the shoot can be seen here.

"It was fun," guitarist Sammi Curr says of the video shoot. "We just came off the Danzig tour, so we were really tired, but Derek [Dale] is an awesome guy. He offers really good input, he pretty much saw what we were talking about for an idea, and talked about treatment for it. There were no translation problems between the idea and the result....it even came out better."

"I originally came up with the idea during Courting Tragedy & Disaster, but it was too funny at the time, not serious enough," Curr continued. "It got vetoed back in the day, but when we were talking about an idea for new video, Derek [Harn, bassist] suggested the old video idea. The band has changed so much, that we don't necessarily have to do the dramatic stuff...we don't care about that shit anymore."

Currently headlining club shows, HIMSA will meet up with Prosthetic labelmates The Acacia Strain to be part of Darkest Hour's "Undoing Ruin 2006" tour, beginning Feb. 17 in New York. Never a band to stay off the road, HIMSA will also return to Europe in April and May shortly after completing its current round of US dates. The extensive touring currently planned is all to support 'Hail Horror,' a record that was labeled as one of Decibel magazine's most anticipated albums of 2006 and touted as "one of the most refreshing albums to surface in a while...a bilious, marauding antidote to the sickly sweet metalcore norm" by Kerrang magazine.

HIMSA on tour
(with Ringworm, The Banner, Demiricous)
2/15 Detroit, MI - Alvins
2/16 Buffalo, NY - The Buffalo Icon

(with The Acacia Strain, Darkest Hour, A Life Once Lost, Dead To Fall)
2/17 Latham, NY - Saratoga Winners
2/18 New York, NY - The Knitting Factory
2/19 Poughkeepsie, NY - The Loft - The Chance
2/20 Centereach, NY - Centereach VFW
2/21 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
2/23 Baltimore, MD - Otto Bar
2/24 Richmond, VA - Alley Katz
2/25 Wilmington, NC - Soapbox Laundro-Lounge
2/26 Jacksonville, FL - Thee Imperial
2/27 St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
2/28 Orlando, FL - Backbooth
3/01 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
3/02 Nashville, TN - Exit / IN
3/03 Little Rock, AR - Vino's
3/05 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
3/06 Houston, TX - Engine Room
3/07 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
3/08 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
3/09 Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse
3/10 San Diego, CA - Epicenter
3/11 Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse
3/12 West Hollywood, CA - Whisky A Go-Go
3/14 San Luis Obisbo, CA - Downtown Brew
3/15 Fresno, CA - The Belmont
3/16 San Francisco, CA - The Pound
3/17 Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk
3/18 Portland, OR - Rock N Roll Pizza
3/19 Seattle, WA - Showbox
3/20 Boise, ID - The Venue
3/22 Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
3/23 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
3/24 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl
3/25 West Dundee, IL - Clearwater Theatre
3/26 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
3/27 Pekin, IL - Planet X Rollerworld
3/28 Indianapolis, IN - Emerson Theatre
3/29 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theatre
3/30 Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Downunder
3/31 Asbury Park, NJ - Club Deep
4/01 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

(with Manntis, Full Blown Chaos, The Classic Struggle)
4/03 Lexington, KY - Downtown Arts Center
4/05 Wichita, KS - Headway Skatepark
4/06 Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep
4/07 Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theatre
4/08 Salt Lake City, UT - Avalon Theater

(European tour with Death By Stereo, The Banner)
4/27 Sneek, Holland - Het Bolwerk
4/28 Munster, Germany - Skaters Palace
4/29 Gestel, Belgium - Groezrock Fest
4/30 Arnhem, Holland - Hardcore Meeting
5/01 Koln, Germany - Underground
5/02 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow
5/04 Linkoping, Sweden - Skylten
5/05 Copenhagen, Denmark - The Rock
5/06 Berlin, Germany - Knack
5/07 Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
5/08 Schweinfurt, Germany - Alter Stattbahnhof (with F.V.K., Betrayed)
5/09 Munchen, Germany - Backstage
5/10 Wien, Austria - Szene
5/11 Bologna, Italy - Estragon
5/12 Bassano del Grappa, Italy - Lagabbia
5/13 Wil, Switzerland - Remise (with Raised Fist, Bridge To Solace)
5/14 Trier, Germany - Exhaus
5/15 London, UK - Underworld
5/16 Bournemouth, UK - Operahouse
5/17 Leeds, UK - Joseph's Well
5/18 Manchester, UK - Music Box
5/20 Sheffield, UK - The Corporation