Official Assault besties The Swellers rock “Fire Away” on the Motion City Soundtrack tour.

Paramore, our secret favorite band, debut the video for their new single “The Only Exception.” Yes, it’s hot.

Incredible Chicago soulsters JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound totally dominate “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.”

Dark hearts melt all across America.

Alkaline Trio has released the video to their latest single off of their new album of the same name, This Addiction. Check out the video, or better yet, enter our contest to win two tickets to their SOLD OUT show in Chicago

A not-so-new video from the UK heavy metal band Architects. It’s got just shy of half a million views so it’s no mistake that this face-melting hard rock video caught the attention of the team over here at Assault HQ.

Las Vegas Rockers Adelita’s Way are headed out on their new tour in 2010 with Theory of a Deadman. The tour is in support of their self-titled, major label debut Virgin Records. As for the Assault team I’m not sure we’ll be able to make it to the show here in Chi-town as it’s on a school night, but for those of you mainsteam rock fans, you may want to check it out.

Fireworks have released a new video for “Detroit,” which appears their 2009 full-length debut, All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion

A few weeks ago we bloggy mcblogstered a video from one of our Chicago favorites The Fold that was shot on their iPhone 3GS parodying pop punk to the tune of Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The USA.” As you may have heard on AbsolutePunk, The Fold are now being sued.

Our newest friends over at DyingScene have posted about a new video from A Wilhelm Scream for their hit song Australias that was just posted on Hurley.com. According to the band, “There will be more live songs added to the Hurley site thru the weekend, so be sure to keep checking back!”

Iconic Finnish rockers HIM have just released a new video for “Heartkiller,” the first single off their upcoming album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice.

Just caught wind of this band from Jamey of Hatebreed on Twitter. Thy Will Be Done “Earth’s Final Embrace” video from their debut album, “Was And Is To Come”. The band is releasing their follow up to ‘Was And Is To Come’, “In Ancient Of Days” on June 30th, 2009 via Stillborn Records.

One of the first hardcore heavy metal bands I ever became a die-hard fan of has just released their newest video featuring front man Corey Taylor. If you’ve never heard of Slipknot, punch yourself in the face.

Rise Against released their video for Savior awhile ago, but they had such good feedback they decided to release a performance only version of the video.

From time to time I am delighted with an “epic as fuck” music video that reminds me of the good old days when… well, when bands actually made cool, hip videos with totally sweet dance moves. This video is precisely that, and now I’m punching myself in the face for not going to see Chromeo when the funk duo was in town this October. God damn Halloween parties.

Ever since the first time I saw Thrice live at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago when I was 16 I knew they’d be big. It’s been awhile since I connected as much with them (musically) on anything they’ve released, but I remain a loyal fan nonetheless.

Drawing inspiration from first person self-viewing cameras, Your Demise has stumbled upon one of the most interesting thrasher metal videos I’ve ever seen.

Just when you thought Fall Out Boy was done making records (as indicated on their Wikipedia page, but has since been removed.) they’ve released a new single, and this video. Check it out.

It’s been awhile since I’ve found some heavy metal worth enjoying, let alone a quality music video to accompany said heavy death metal. Dagoba, “The Things Within” is a badass music video. Check it out.

It’s not too often that I get to plug bands before most people find out about them simply because there aren’t that many that are pluggable, but I think I may have found one that’s plugworthy…