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Now that Randy Blythe has been acquitted of all charges, the Lamb of God machine is rolling out in full force. The band has already announced a ridiculous tour package with Decapitated, Terror and The Acacia Strain and today they have confirmed a slew of European dates:

After a pretty uneventful slate of releases last week – can we all agree in the age of Spotify and Youtube that live albums and re-releases just aren't much of a sell anymore? – the labels are coming strong this week, particularly if you dig your metal on the brutal side.

With Halloween only a few months away, it was imminent that GWAR would return from Planet Scumdogia to take over North America once again. They will be heading out with Devildriver, who promise that this will be their last US tour for over a year, as they will be finishing the writing and recording of [...]

Woods of Ypres was one of my favorite underground doom metal bands. The loss of mainman David Gold, who was killed in a car accident last December, was a truly devastating one for the doom and black metal communities. As a tribute (and farewell), Steph LeDrew is curating A Heart Of Gold: Tribute To Woods of Ypres.

When I read the announcement for the Shockwave Festival, I was pretty excited about the number of awesome supporting bands. The bad news is that four of the them have dropped off the bill for reasons unknown. Fear Factory posted an updated tour flyer for the festival, which doesn't feature either Dirge Within or Forged [...]

Four Metal Injection approved acts are hitting the road together this summer for a killer tour. First, we have The Contortionist, who are set to put out a new album, Intrinsic on Good Fight/E1 on July 17th (exclusive studio diaries here). We don't need to tell you about Jeff Loomis, and we've already showed you [...]

Summer seems ripe for touring, and there will be plenty of it. When it comes to metal tours, we already have Mayhem Festival, Summer Slaughter, Trespass America, and now a Shockwave tour. The tour will feature Fear Factory and Voivod co-headlining, along with Cattle Decapitation, Misery Index, Revocation, Havok, Dirge Within, Last Chance To Reason, [...]

Watch interviews and music videos from all the bands playing this year's Summer Slaughter! Finally! Finally! Finally! The promoters of the Summer Slaughter tour teased that today is the day they will be releasing dates. I know I'm pretty pumped to know when the stellar lineup of Cannibal Corpse, Between The Buried and Me, The [...]

If you asked me to think up three bands who would tour together, I wouldn't necessarily come up with Volbeat, Hellyeah and Iced Earth, but when I stop and think about it for a few minutes, I can totally see some drunk Hellyeah fans literally shouting out hell yeah to some Iced Earth tunes, should [...]

Clutch, I really enjoy your live show, but if you think I'm ever going to attend a HELLYEAH show, you sirs, are wrong! But, I am sure other junkies feel differently. The two bands announced a co-headlining tour for this Spring. Hellyeah will be out supporting their upcoming release, Band Of Brothers, out June 5th [...]

We had so much fun doing it last year, we're back for round two. All this month, we will be covering black metal here on Metal Injection with articles on essential black metal listening, some awesome lists and some killer videos. While we put the finishing touches on some of the content, let's take a [...]

Whitechapel might be laying low right now, but come March, these guys are heading back on the road for the cleverly titled "Recorruptour" which will also feature Miss May I, After The Burial, Plot For You,, Structures and Within The Ruins. It all kicks off on March 10th in Memphis, TN. Here is the full [...]

Noregs Vaapen is an artistic conundrum. On the one hand it is a towering confluence of masterful riffs and composition, immensely satisfying in its synthesis of the sinister and celebratory. On the other hand, Taake mastermind Hoest attempts to ply a particular cognitive dissonance. Lyrically, Noregs Vaapen is a paean to cult Norwegian nationalism, hailing [...]

Symphony X and Iced Earth are both celebrating the releases of new albums, Iconoclast and Dystopia respectively. So they decided why not team up for a mega tour with mega-high pitched vocals (amIright?). Both bands will be hitting the road together early next year, and are bringing re-thrash masters Warbringer with them for a pretty [...]

The God Damn Tour is only a month away and I can't wait for things to kick off. Clearly, neither can the headliners, as The Acacia Strain frontman Vincent Bennett posted this video to give you a friendly remind to come hang. The band will be going out with Terror, Stray From The Path and [...]