Woah! This may be the heaviest song pack ever to be released on Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Next week, you will be able to download killer tracks from the likes of Behemoth, Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, God Forbid, Job for a Cowboy, Marilyn Manson, Slayer, and Whitechapel. You read that correctly! Cannibal Corpse is now in Rock Band! So is JFAC and Whitechapel. WHAT? Full tracklisting below. Mayhem Fest of course starts on July 7th. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, enter our giveaway!

Behemoth "Conquer All"
Black Dahlia Murder "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"
Cannibal Corpse "Hammer Smashed Face"
God Forbid "Empire of the Gun"
Job for a Cowboy "Embedded"
Marilyn Manson "Disposable Teens"
Slayer "Black Magic"
Whitechapel "This Is Exile"

Tomorrow night, we will present a very special 4th of July Eve Edition of the METAL INJECTION LIVECAST. One of the segments on the show will be Sexual Jeopardy. What is Sexual Jeopardy? No, it's not what Michael Jackson found himself in after sucking off a 12-year-old. It's like the game show Jeopardy, except all the questions are about names for various filthy sex acts. So I guess it sorta is Michael Jackson-related after all. The first time we played this game, it became our most listened to show. We expect you fucks to break that record when we present Sexual Jeopardy part 2 LIVE tomorrow night at 10pm Eastern / 9pm Central right here!

Metal Injection LiveCast Quickie: Sexual Jeopardy [23:14m]

 

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Continuing our coverage of Pagan Fest 2009, we present a goofy interview with the pirate thrashers known as SWASHBUCKLE. These guys were pretty good sports with me giving them shit about being "pirates" based out of New Jersey and had some great responses to my "hard-hitting" journalistic inquiries. Check out the interview below. We also posted two live clips of the band here and here. So grab your goblets and let's get to partying!

In the late 80's Anthrax was already a house hold name for head bangers across our nation. These thrash giants have seen it all since, and still remain to be one of today's most notable thrash metal bands ever. However if it's one thing that can be said about early Anthrax no matter what line up you prefer, it's that the NYC quintet brought the fun that was clearly missing from your normal heavy acts of it's time.

Going back to 1985 this music video for "Madhouse" off their 2nd LP "Spreading the Disease" was actually banned from MTV completely, who believed the video to be degrading towards mentally ill patients. The LP itself features the then, new vocalist Joey Belladona who replaced original front man Neil Turbin, and new bassist Frank Bello, who took over for Danny Lilker (now of SOD/Brutal Truth fame).

When Noa heard that MOONSORROW was touring the States she nearly wet her pants! Moonsorrow, is one of Noa's favorite bands so of course she had to interview them, mainly vocalist Ville Sorvali. Watch as Noa is completely swooned by the Finn! During the interview Ville discusses being on Pagan Fest, the band's new album Firestorm, the preservation of Heathen culture, Finnish funerals and Mel Gibson. We have also uploaded two live clips here and here of the band for you to enjoy. This is just the beginning of our Pagan Fest coverage as we have live footage from all the bands coming in the next few days.

This week on the Dead Zone, your host Deadspout presents a special edition of the show focusing on the current Conquer and Curse tour which features ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, GOATWHORE, DAATH, SWWAATS and RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER. Here is the playlist:

Goatwhore - Apocalyptic Havoc
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes of God
Daath - Self-Corruption Manifesto
Daath - Sharpen The Blades
Absu - 13 Globes
Abysmal Dawn - Twilight's Fallen
Abysmal Dawn - State of Mind
SWWAATS - Agenda
SWWAATS - Cattle
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Friends In The Mountain, Ghouls In The Valley
Abigail Williams - Acolytes
Abigail Williams - The World Beyond

The Dead Zone - Conquer and Curse EP 84 [1:00:35m]

 

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We here at Metal Injection know times are tough. But we also know that you absolutely NEED to see Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder, Killswitch Engage and all the other awesome bands who are playing this summer's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. That's why, in these troubled economic times, Metal Injection is hooking up one lucky winner for EACH tour date with a pair of tickets to see the biggest tour of the summer! Are you stoked? We are stoked!

How do you enter? All you have to do is leave a comment copying and pasting the exact tour date you want to go to from the itinerary below (after the jump) and include one sentence with something silly on why you should win. We don't want a life story here, just one sentence, and we know you're broke, so come up with something better! Who is your hook up? Metal Fucking Injection! Tour dates after the jump… (more…)

Shadows Fall might bring the metal. They might bring some core too. But, Brian Fair says on tour he mostly brings the classics and instrumental rock to soothe his moshed out soul. After an interview with roving reporter Justina Villanueva, Brian Fair (the dreaded scream machine) discussed what he puts to his ears when he's not on stage or in a recording booth.

Metallica, Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets probably the most perfect record. That one stands the test of time. The first time I heard Metallica was Kill Em All, but Master Of Puppets–by that point I had already been a fan. That was the perfect record. It had the fast crazy song to open it, the 8-minute epic next, by the end there is the half ballad. They were the masters of the half ballad. Sanitarium and One and all those types of songs. And they also had slow dirge-y songs, like Things They Should Not Be. They had everything. They had everything that I liked about metal in one record. It's like goddammit–that's the record that you wanted to write. But, its like shit, they already did it. You can throw [Master Of Puppets] on today and it sounds just as fresh. Some metal records you can hear in history why they are awesome, but now you might be like, eh that didn't really survive. But, that record is always going to survive.
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ALICE IN CHAINS finally released their first single today in nearly 14 years, "A Looking In View" and as my good friend Axl Rosenberg put it "Cantrell and company have silenced the naysayers who said it couldn’t be done without Layne Staley, and schooled every Godsmack, every Hurt, every band that’s basically ripped AIC off in the years since their initial demise." Amen! You can download a free MP3 (in exchange for your email address) at Alice In Chains' official website. Consider me interested in hearing new Alice In Chains!