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The road from guitar god to second rate Ted Nugentesque celebrity troll is a long and winding one. No one knows this more than Dave Mustaine.

Yesterday, we learned that Death The All, the Chuck Shuldiner/Death tribute project featuring former members of the band would be returning in 2013 for a new string of North American tour dates. The band will be comprised of the Human-era lineup of guitarist Paul Masvidal, bassist Steve DiGiorgio, and drummer Sean Reinert. But who will [...]

Ancient VVisdom broke through last year when Prosthetic re-released their 2011 independent album A Godlike Inferno. Critics and punters alike found themselves enamored of the band's unusual mix of 90's reminiscent vocals and epic acoustic campfire folk, all underscored by spare kettle drums with cleanly enunciated lyrics praising Satan. It might have been written off as mere [...]

Progressive metal multi-instrumental virtuoso Paul Antonio Ortiz, aka Chimp Spanner, will be further raising the bar of the sonically epic with the release of his stunning new 'All Roads Lead Here' EP on 6 February 2012, via the pioneering BASICK label. In addition to the CD and digital formats, a strictly limited edition clear transparent [...]

Hurricane Sandy hit the North Eastern United States pretty bad a couple weeks ago. While we here at Metal Injection were lucky to be unaffected, we do know many who have lost their recording studios, instruments, and even homes. While many different organizations have been getting involved to raise funds for relief, I couldn't be [...]

If you haven't been reading the Melvins' tour diaries from their 51 Shows In 51 Days Tour, you are missing out on some great stories, including gossip on what it was like to tour with two of the biggest bands of the early 90s. The Melvins have seen it all, and been around the block, [...]

The all-star Death tribute tour, Death To All kicked off this past weekend in San Francisco, and it's lookin' pretty good so far. To recap, past members of iconic metal act Death have gotten together to pay tribute to the fallen frontman of the band, Chuck Shuldiner, all in the name of charity, raising awareness [...]

We've been covering the insane things Dave Mustaine says so much lately, that I've decided to create a new category to store all his insanity, which I retroactively tagged with some of my favorite past writings about his outspoken opinion. Today, a story where Mustaine says something that I don't really disagree with. In a [...]

A few days ago, we posted a story with the headline Dave Mustaine has a Santorum fetish, where we quoted the Megadeth frontman saying that he is most certainly voting Republican, and of all the current nominees, he likes the guy who is so anti-gay, that gay rights activists recoined his last name to mean [...]

In the mysterious and disturbing country of Creepsylvania, times seem to be just as hard as they are in the States. You see, our favorite mutant residents of this distant land, Ghoul, are in desperate need of a new tour van and with their trek with Gwar on the horizon, time is of the essence. [...]

Everybody knows famed pop-culture author Chuck Klosterman is a metalhead, as he wrote a book about discovering it while growing up in Fargo. So it was quite interesting to read his take on the abominable collaboration between Lou Reed & Metallica, and the man couldn't be more biting and on point. I highly recommend reading his review [...]

The San Francisco Metal Examiner had an interesting conversation with All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte about among other things, their experiences in Tokyo when the earthquakes hit and the increasing difficulty for bands to support themselves through their music as gas prices increase and as the economy struggles.

If you own a television, chances are you've seen those commercials for Kidz Bop, the collection of cover albums sung "by kids, for kids." Along with Kidz Bop being the #1 children's music brand for kids ages 5-12, it's also the #1 cause of douche-chills for everyone else. However, Bret Michaels collaborated with his daughters Raine [...]

by James Zalucky So it seems that, since most of my Metal Injection colleagues were off on vacation last weekend (some in Hawaii, some in Sweden- not sure who I'm more jealous of), it was up to me to go down to Manhattan and see Absu and Immortal, and report on it to you guys. [...]

by: Frank Godla As sponsors of NYC's No Mercy Metal Showcase I naturally made my way down to check out a slew of local acts for a special Halloween edition on October 30th at Crash Mansion. There were ghouls, goblins, scary clowns and cute girls, but quite possibly the scariest of them all was the [...]