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Chris Letchford and Travis Levrier are pretty dang good at playing guitar and they really wanted to show you. Thus, a playthrough video is born!

A week after Slayer legend Jeff Hanneman's death, Dave Lombardo is remembering his former band mate and best friend.

As kids that were born at the peak of grunge graduate high school and acquire disposable income, the 80's nostalgia that American society has been in the grip of for much of the past decade is quickly giving way to wistfulness for the 90's, which makes it an ideal time for Amorphis to make another bid at semi-stardom.

Last night was the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods and without question, the biggest one yet. Metallica performed! Anthrax got up on stage with Phil and Rex to perform "This Love?" Dillinger Escape Plan bled and breathed fire. Overall, it was a great night that we're still recovering from.

Extol, one of the greatest bands to have ever existed, are releasing their self-titled record in June. This is their first record since 2005 and the single, "Open the Gates," sounds like they never stopped.

Born of Osiris have posted two new clips to their Vine account of some upcoming jams! I'm just going to keep reporting on these until I stop getting excited about them. Which will never happen.

In what has become a yearly tradition, Metal Injection proudly brings to you our Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest ticket giveaway. We will be choosing a winner for each stop of the tour, who will receive two general admission tickets to the event. This year's Mayhem Fest is headlined by Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch [...]

Behemoth have issued a new update from the studio. Their new album is nearing completion as they gear up for this summer's Mayhem Fest.

It's been an eventful week in metal. A few tours were announced, we posted some silly videos and bands were resurrected. Here are the top stories of the week: It's The MARILYN MANSON & AVRIL LAVIGNE Collaboration You Weren't Waiting For Nicolas Cage Headbanging Drop Everything & Listen To The New THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER [...]

So remember how I was saying they only went into the studio not so long ago? Well, now there's some material you can preview… and it rules.

Born of Osiris are gearing up for another record due out in the summer of 2013 (according to statements made by the band earlier this year). On a scale of one to stoked, how bad do you want this?

Kind of a ho-hum week… a few notable releases but mostly crate digging. Next week is the fucking jam, though, so don't get too deep in hock jocking on Volbeat. Let's get to it, then.

Born of Osiris are all geared up to deliver their next masterpiece and give us a vague idea of when it'll be out.

Now this is a tour I can get behind, a prog metal wet dream featuring Intronaut and Scale The Summit with Mouth of the Architect and Castle splitting half the tour amongst themselves. And there are plenty of dates.

Alright, I wasn't really on-board with Tool reissuing their Opiate EP when I first read about it. All it was at first was just some extra art… but now the game has changed.