check it out. we’re having a video-chop contest. send ‘em in and we’ll post them right here.

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click here to see our video for ‘this night,’ directed by Chris Luccy at Mere Mortal Films.

right click here to download a compressed quicktime of this vid.

take the file home, chop it up with your favorite footage. maybe, like, your friends playing cops with ketchup for blood, or maybe something you like off of a DVD of The Shield, or maybe The Simpsons, or a zombie movie.

make your own video, send it to us, and if we like it we’ll post it right here, even give you a fat credit. fame awaits at the blacklabworld channel on youtube.

the best video gets a signed poster from the ’98 tour, free cd’s, plus extra special unkowns.

you can do it.
put your back into it.

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sweet! we have our first submission. this one comes courtesy of Megan “I love Ronnie” and it’s badass.

this one is also excellent, by Nick Kerekes.

if you don’t feel like waiting for these things to load (30-60 mbs) then head on over to our youtube channel.

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‘this night,’ black lab’s single for their third album, passion leaves a trace featured here in the new promo for season six of The Shield

click to hear a 90 second preview of black lab’s “this night.” click to buy an immediate, full-length, 192k mp3 download of “this night” for 99 cents, via blacklabworld.com’s secure shopping cart. click to receive a free, immediate, full-length mp3 download of “this night” when you order black lab’s new album, passion leaves a trace, for $12. you’ll get the mp3 now and the album will be in the mail to you within 72 hours.

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paul durham and black lab announce the release of their third album, featuring ‘this night’ from the shield’sseason 6 promo.

five years in the making, passion leaves a trace finds the band returning to the experimental roots of their critically acclaimed geffen debut, your body above me. passion bristles with deeply personal epics, carved out of driving rock & roll, lush electronics and savage desire.

using the incandescent riffs and soaring vocals that hooked fans in the first place, passion mixes walls of guitar with unexpected moments of synthesizer, breakbeat, & emotional breakdown. the majesty of ‘mine again,’ the jet-black remorse of ‘this night,’ the loss of ‘weightless,’ the driving blast of ‘the real you,’ the ache of ‘ghost in your mind,’ the schizophrenia of ‘pictures of people,’ and the slow trip of ‘the window’ – all come together in this portrait of total obsession.

tracks from this self-produced album can be heard on FX’s promo for season 6 of “ the shield,” in CBS’s “numb3rs,” “ABC’s “ 6 degrees,” and films the benchwarmers & lovewrecked.

click LISTEN to hear seven 90-second samples from the album. click BUY CD to order using credit card or paypal. click DOWNLOAD and you’ll get an email after checkout offering you either hi-resolution 192k mp3 or iTunes-Plus-grade 256k aac, as well as 2 bonus tracks and CD art.

Preview CD Now Listen to 90-second samples of songs                            Order this CD Now & receive an mp3 of ‘this night’

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see the promo for season six of ‘the shield,’ featuring ‘this night,’
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lyrics:

there are things I have done
there’s a place I have gone
there’s a beast and I let it run
now it’s running my way

there are things I regret
that you can’t forgive, you can’t forget
there’s a gift that you sent
you sent it my way

so take this night
wrap it around me like a sheet
I know I’m not forgiven
but I need a place to sleep
take this night
and lay me down on the street
I know I’m not forgiven
but I hope that I’ll be given
some peace

there’s a game that I played
there are rules I had to break
there’s mistakes that I made
but I made them my way

so take this night
wrap it around me like a sheet
I know I’m not forgiven
but I need a place to sleep
take this night
and lay me down on the street
I know I’m not forgiven
but I hope that I’ll be given
some peace…
some peace