Get me the tweet out of here! Everyone is tweeting all the damned time. I can't keep up. So here's a bunch of links I won't have time to twat to you.

i wrestled a BLAAAG once

Early Graves has a new dude in the band

All metal sources agree on one thing hypocrisy is stupid

The follow-up to Heavy Metal Baghdad

Some Dutch metal heads predicted our unemployment

When a new Decibel issue arrives, everyone wets themselves

If you live near Chi-town, you can catch the reunited Disembodied

Dimmu Blogger went off on shitty band names and interviewed Suffocation

Black Metal doc makers talk about the beauty of Norway

Stoners can't play House of Blues

10 Capt Beefheart guitar Commandments

Non-tweeted Faith No More news

Addiction is a health issue, says Sharon

Wolves in the Throne room say NO to future corporate sponsored events

Underoath admit to digging Joy Division

Arsis drummer back. Goaters debate the cause of the band's downfall: touring/shows versus drugs/money

Into The Studio

While getting snowed in can prevent you from getting to work, for Coalesce, they did some work

After Down finishes their summer tour dates, they'll be recording

Unexpect are expecting to hit the studio 4/14

Horse The Band about to make new music and evidently influence kids to cut their jeans into shorts too

Roadwhore

Mayhem is going to Mexico before their big North American tour and all these other bands are going on tour too: Big Business, Isis, Anal Cunt

NYHC

Who doesn't like dudes dressed in oversized costumes wrestling to the death? For 20 bucks you can watch some assholes beat each other up: KAIJU BIG BATTEL this Friday at The Warsaw in Brooklyn

Coming off a successful new album and on the verge of two seperate huge tours (with LAMB OF GOD and Mayhem Fest), GOD FORBID are parting ways with guitarist/clean vocalist DALLAS COYLE. A statement from guitarist DOC COYLE (Dallas' brother) reads:

"There have been a barrage of rumors and questions on whether or not Dallas has left God Forbid. It's true that Dallas has left the band. It's taken us a few days to confirm this definitely, and figure out what we were going to do considering the fact that we are starting a very important tour with Lamb of God this week.

"I don't want to go into the hairy details, but all I can say is that there was a mutual disagreement between Dallas and I, and the disagreement became angry on both sides, and he decided to sit out the tour the day we were supposed to leave. We later learned he did not want to tour anymore at all. Everyone in the band, including myself, was upset and shocked. For me, it's a lot tougher because he's my brother and I have a very close bond with him. We've done everything together our whole lives, so it's difficult to deal with emotionally but I understand he has bigger responsibilities at home to care for. I wish he would've handled it in a different way, but I am not angry at him for leaving if he is unhappy with our situation. I really hope he finds success and happiness in his future pursuits.

"In the meantime, we've recruited ex-DARKEST HOUR shredder KRIS NORRIS to fill in for the tour. We are currently doing a few warm-up shows as a four-piece to meet the Lamb of God tour in Phoenix, Arizona on April 2. Kris will be there for the start of the LOG tour though. I've been friends with Kris for years, and have an immense amount of respect for his playing. I look forward to playing with him, and I'm sure he will knock it out the park! Byron and I will pick up the slack with the vocals as much as we can.

"Thanks for everyone's continued support, and we'll see you on the road!"

Wow. Doesn't sound like an early April Fools joke.

New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, Crimson Management and The Syndicate are proud to announce the Second Annual Metal Insider Summit on April 17, 2009. The Metal Insider Summit is an interactive, educational conference consisting of two panels where fans and the metal music industry can engage, share ideas and help further the scene. The Metal Insider Summit will give fans an opportunity to meet key members in the business and gain valuable insight on how to start their own careers. It will also give labels, managers, agents, endorsers, publishers, media promoters, bands and more the chance to interact with the people who buy their albums, tickets and merchandise.

Admission is free with an RSVP at MetalInsider.net and a ticket to New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, or appropriate proof of purchase. Those unable to attend will be able to partake and contribute with exclusive coverage at MetalInsider.net, MetalSucks.net and MetalInjection.net in the days following the event. (more…)

Metal Injection's resident hardcore bro Sean Gresens aka Spleen_Latifa just so happened to attend last Saturday's CONVERGE show at Club Europa in Brooklyn, NY. CONVERGE happened to play 2 new live songs. Sean just so happened to have a camera and taped the whole thing for all you junkies to see. Do you see how much Sean loves you? Over the next few days, we will be uploading the band's entire set from that night. We have already posted 4 songs online. Above, you will find the first (untitled) new song the band played. Jacob Bannon and crew played a second new song, which we uploaded here. We also posted Plagues and No Heroes so far. Come back throughout the week as we post the rest of the band's set from the show!

Late last week, the organizers of the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL announced the finalized lineup. In an effort to get the word out on smaller, up-and-coming bands, the festival has added a 3rd stage of lesser known acts. Our hetero life-mates over at MetalSucks provide a comprehensive guide to all these acts worth checking out. Here is the full lineup: (more…)

As a visionary for NILE, KARL SANDERS re-imagined death metal as hymns of the sphinx, anthems for the pharaoh, the cover art of Powerslave depicted over blast beats. After perfecting that niche on In Their Darkened Shrines, Nile plateaued by making solid albums that were about as distinguishable from each other as MOTORHEAD songs. But what better chance to branch out, take a few risks and pull of some stunts that wouldn't make it to your main band than a solo album? (more…)

On this week's edition of the Livecast, we had a discussion about which Slayer record is the best. Immediately, everybody agreed that Reign In Blood is the obvious choice and without question is definitely the band's peak. If you don't agree, you're wrong. With that said, which album do you think is second best album:

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God bless the inventor of the "Shuffle" button on music players. Late last week, I was having the shittiest day, and had my music on random and Deadwater Drowning's "Bliss From a Dead Embrace" came on and I was reminded of how much this band kicked fucking ass.

Bread out of the early 2000's Massachusetts metalcore scene, these guys basically the blueprint for every current deathcore band out today. The only release the band has is a 2004 self-titled EP, and it is 21 minutes of sheer relentlessness. Some familiar names fills the ranks: the infamous Nate Johnson handling vocal duties (who went onto play with THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD and PREMONITIONS OF WAR) and on guitar Johnny Fay (of THE RED CHORD fame) and Seth Coleman (who then joined THE ACACIA STRAIN). Sometimes it's the bands that only release one blip of music that get the most notoriety because they never had a chance to fuck it up. This is definitely one of those bands. If you enjoy heavy music, I urge you to pick up their self titled EP. This track will surely convince you:

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Last House On The Left – Liath Loinneach
Sylosis - Slowly Consumed
Coldworker – Symptoms of Sickness
Origin - The Beyond Within
Decrepit Birth – Reflection of Emotions
Cataract - Snake Skin
Hate Eternal – Thus Salvation
Hate Eternal – Nailed To Obscurity
Immolation - Wolf Among The Flock
The Analyst – The Black Gate
Cannibal Corpse – Priests of Sodom
Oceano – Fractured Frames, Scattered Flesh
Bloodbath – Devouring The Flesh

www.myspace.com/deadspout

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Our (sort-of) bi-weekly video podcast, The FiX is back with an all-new edition featuring some of the best videos that are not getting airplay anywhere else. For example, did you know BOTCH made a video? We just found out too (thanks to our MUYA reporter Justina Villanueva. We also play videos from MERCYFUL FATE, PARIA, RAINTIME, ANTIGAMA and TYR. Click here to stream the FiX right now or if you'd like to download the hi-res version, click here. You can also subscribe to the FiX on iTunes.

Every time the editors of Metal Inquisition come back to us with a brand new edition of their weekly recap — tr00 & False — we regret our decision to let them do so more and more. They don't give a fuck who they offend and their opinions are sometimes (usually) completely different than the public consensus. Here is their take on some of this week's stories. Please note the opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of Metal Injection

Tr00

Brutal Truth are touring again
When I was 14 or 15, I used to call Kevin Sharp and just talk to him. I would ask him all kinds of stupid questions and clearly had no ability to detect what surely must have been a complete lack of interest in talking to some 9th grader for an hour on a Saturday afternoon. In retrospect that was probably really fucking annoying and weird, so thanks for putting up with me Kevin! I just hope they play "Perpetual Conversion" because that song jams.

Dimebag Darrel bio in the works
I fucking love Pantera. There's nothing I like to do better than take off my shirt and sing "Mouth For War" in the mirror. Or grab people on the street by the collar and scream, "High noon, your doom!!" But as sad as I am to lose Dime, you have to admit… it was kind of cool that someone killed him because he thought Damageplan sucked!! I mean, it's like something I would say when I was drunk, only somebody actually did it. Now if someone would spray Hell Yeah with a fire extinguisher full of AIDS.

Kid Rock teams up with Dale Jr
Fuck yes! A few months ago I was floored when I saw Kid Rock's "American Warrior" video before a movie, probably some romantic comedy with Paul Rudd. Anyway, this song fucking jams, I love Kid Rock. The best thing about him is how he let Whoopie Goldberg play drums for him in that song "American Badass" that Metallica sampled. I love that song, especially the thrash part! I don't know why people get all nostalgic about 80s hardcore when there are much more contemporary artists like Kid Rock that thrash just as hard, only with much better production and with tons of strippers in the audience.

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Devin Townsend releases some new music or something
Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad fanboys are some of the most annoying of all them, rivaling Mike Patton dickriders. He looks like some kind of goblin, heaving and straining to play his guitar like he's a troll slaving away in the pits of Mordor to forge a fucking sword or something, balding mullet flapping with every swing of his pickaxe. I never understood what was so great about SYL, although perhaps it's because I mostly remember Devin for his years with Steve Vai. Can someone fill me in? I have a feeling it's the same thing that explains why Dream Theater, World of Warcraft, and Magic The Gathering are popular.

Chicago Powerfest exists
Ugh, I can only imagine what a wretched sausage fest this fucking fest is going to be. I've never heard of any of these bands except for Soil (aren't they ex-Oppressor?), but I don't need to. I'm sure that if there are any chicks there, they'll have long-ass Mormon hair, fat arms, and giant bush- all squeezed into some outfit from Torrid with lots of green and purple velvet in it. All the dudes there will be more interested in jizzing over some dude's sweep picking than trying to get in a girl's pants anyway. Look, I understand the need to escape from reality from time to time, but enough with the fucking castle rock and fretboard masturbation already. At least some of the better bands in this genre like Blind Guardian play with gauntlets on, which is metal as fuck. And didn't Iced Earth have an entire album about the Red Baron?!? I don't know if it's the pilot or the frozen pizzas, either way it's fucking rad.

Metal Injection indulges drum nerds with Sick Drummer contest
Look, I'll admit that I've spent more than a few hours on Youtube watching drum videos from Sikfuk, Decrepit Birth, Origin, and Dave Weckl, but the last thing the world needs is to encourage more young men to stay in their bedroom and play drums. Especially this kind of drumming, which is guaranteed not to get you laid or get you the attention of anyone other than males with beards, beer bellies, and social anxiety. If you are a parent, please don't let your kid play drums. You are dooming him to a life of involuntary abstinence (how's that for a Dumt reference??). Please don't do this to him! Encourage him to play sports, drink alcohol, and wear American Eagle clothes. Everybody reading this knows what a sad, lonely life it is to be a metal fan, and the saddest, loneliest of all of us are the drummers. Shame on Metal Injection for participating!!

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PREVIOUS GAME
Last time's game must have been really easy, because out of 84 entries, only two were incorrect. So we picked four correct answers at random, and a big congratulations goes out to MI junkies TaronKeim, Projectjx, moon)blood and Dezzeldriver. They will each be recieving a Best of Obituary CD released by Roadrunner Records

THIS WEEK'S GAME
This week, we made it a bit more difficult. 5 people who answer correctly will be randomly chosen to win a copy of DEVILDRIVER's The Last Kind Words. All you have to do is properly guess who it is in the image below. Leave a comment if you think you know the answer.

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The 14th edition of the METAL INJECTION LIVECAST begins with a discussion about shitstains on toilets and then moves onto SLAYER's discography. A heated debate breaks out judging which SLAYER record was better, Seasons In The Abyss or South of Heaven. Also, we give away a night with Noa, discuss Darren's circumcision (I don't know why either) and perform an all new Bastardpiece Theater. Here is this week's music playlist:

METALLICA – Leper Messiah
JEFF LOOMIS – Shouting Fire At A Funeral
GENGHIS TRON – Laser Bitch
TERA MELOS – Party With Tina
AFFLICTIED – Astray
AT THE GATES – Legion
GLASS CASKET – Genesis

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GOJIRA may get all the credit as the French buzz band of the moment, but when you want to talk about shredtastic and relentless bands, lest ye forget about GOROD. MI junkie keepitwolfson tipped us off that our French buddies have just posted a new mp3 on their MySpace page. The track is called Disavow Your God, clocks in at 5:03 and doesn't let up for a second.

Seriously, stop reading this, click this link and go have your mind blown. And, if that isn't enough, we have some video footage to keep you occupied until their new CD, Process Of A New Decline comes out (expected by the Summer).

So if Decibel's latest cover story isn't enough to get your grindcore hard-on all rattled up [pun not intended], BRUTAL MOTHER FUCKING TRUTH have announced their North American Tour dates and another reason to hit up Maryland Deathfest. Until they are a destroying a venue near you, you can watch this rehearsal footage.

04/04 – Tempe, AZ – The Sets (w/ CREMATORIUM)
04/05 – San Marcos, CA – The Jumping Turtle (w/ CREMATORIUM)
04/07 – Los Angeles, CA – The Knitting Factory (shhhh … it's a secret)
04/08 – San Francisco, CA – The DNA Lounge (w/ IMPALED)
04/23 – Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
04/24 – Toronto, ON – Wreck Room
04/25 – Pittsburg, PA – 31st St Pub
04/26 – Cleveland, OH – Peabody's
05/01 – Montreal, QC – Underworld
05/02 – Quebec City, QC – L'Anti
05/03 – Ottawa, ON – Maverick's
05/07 – Syracuse, NY – The Lost Horizon
05/09 – Allentown, PA – The Sterling Hotel
05/11 – Danbury, CT – Bill Baloney's
05/17 – Brooklyn, NY – Europa (Auditory Assault Festival)
05/23 – Baltimore, MD – Sonar (Maryland Deathfest)
05/30 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013 (Neurotic Deathfest)
06/21 – Clisson, France – Hellfest

What the fuck is a free country if a person can't fornicate with an inanimate object in peace?! Doesn't Michigan realize that he could have done something way worse, like get laid off and then get laid and slayed by some idiot who just gave Cannibal Corpse fans a bad name. But hey, life in the States could be worse. At least you won't find any of these in America. And, your day will get even better if you spend the rest of it reading all these links and avoid Thirsty Thursday.

TOUR RECAPS

Mikael Akerfeldt "NEEDS" an album called Menu. Help him out, fuckers.

Deathcore dudes can't wait to tour with Aborted.

Kreator wants to thank everyone who saw them on their European tour for celebrating violence with them

REUNIONS AND COMEBACKS

Award winners plan on staying together

I couldn't believe it. But, its totally true. maudlin of the Well (and Kayo Dot too) returns thanks to their fans

America's biggest freak is bringing a circus to London

Check out Daath in front of a green screen

Tom Araya says expect the new album to be like, uh, Slayer. For now, those thrash dudes will be releasing a 7" vinyl on Record Store Day

I know a reporter in Atlantic City that either just pissed, came or did both on himself because KISS is back.

Is this tour title a joke?

ALL ABOUT SHOWS

Even if you live in the middle of nowhere, you still might be able to see God Forbid

Some tool will be on tour again soon.

Seventeen people were arrested at a metal show in PA. That's it?!

A metal dude reviews a moshcore show for what it really is

Samael are craving to play their new songs

If you life in Seattle and <3 grind, go see Pig Destroyer

Propaghandi added more tour dates

Nobody in Detroit likes Metallica after their SXSW stunt. And, the world will like them even less after bringing back Newsted.

AIRWAVES

A "Dramatic Roar" captivates on VH1

Once again metal's tolerable creep teaches an interesting lesson on something, well, metal

Next Rotten Sound album will focus on the meaning of stupidity

OTHER NEWS

Another magazine bit the dust

We've picked at METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich a lot on this website (whether it's bonding with dudes in bathroom stalls, illegally downloading his own record or just sucking as a drummer) but for once we actually agree with the man. Shocking, right? In a recent interview with the LA Times, Lars was asked if METALLICA even needs a major label anymore, to which he said:

"Without offending any of the good people from the record company in the room, no. Let's cut to the chase. . . . The primary — not the only, but the primary — function of a record label is to act as a bank. When you're fortunate enough to be successful and so on, you don't need to rely on record companies as the banks. . . .

"We're doing a bunch of shows with Trent [Reznor, NINE INCH NAILS] this summer in Europe. I look forward to sitting down and talking to him about what's on his radar."

What else can be said? When the man is right, he's right. All a label does is lend you money to spend on shit. It's all about the band's hard work and dedication. But, before this turns into a Lars LoveFest, Blabbermouth has a video of the interview and if you watch him saying the quote it comes off way more ackward, and thus hilarious.

Spring is here, and so is the new episode of Issue Oriented!

Ronen talks to Propagandhi's Chris Hannah and Todd Kowalski about using sarcasm to promote social justice, the humanity of personal compromise, the power of community and much more. Propagandhi are currently supporting the release of their new full-length, Supporting Caste.

Then Ronen talks to Mike Hale (In The Red, Gunmoll, solo artist) about personal tribulation, following dreams, and his current musical efforts. Mike is currently supporting a number of recent releases including In The Red's Volume 2 and his solo release Lives Like Mine.

PLUS A NEW ON-AIR SEGMENT! We’re also excited to announce the addition of Justin Brannan to the the Issue Oriented bullpen. You might know Justin from bands like Most Precious Blood orIndecision, but he is a man of many talents, one of which includes radio. Justin has worked for The Howard Stern Show, WNEW 102.7 FM in NYC, Fuse TV and more. We’re stoked to welcome him to the show and know you’ll love what he brings to the table. Justin’s new segment, A Person Familiar With The Matter, debuts this episode. Jon Stewart = Jim Cramer? Hear for yourself.