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I was very excited when the band Nightkin was announced back in March. The band boasts The Red Chord guitarist Mike "Gunface" McKenzie on vocals and former Black Dahlia Murder bassist Dave Lock on guitar, BDM drummer Zach Gibson as well as guitarist Matt Gauntlett and bassist Matt West. The band played their first live [...]

What the hell is going on in heavy metal this week?! Former Obituary/Six Feet Under guitarist Allen West was busted recently for having a meth lab…and that's not even the best part of the story! 

Former Black Dahlia Murder bassist Dave Lock and former drummer Zach Gibson are bringing the heavies with The Red Chord's Mike McKenzie on vocals. Are you ready?

On this monumental edition of the Metal Injection Livecast, Rob finally did it . He called his mom live on the air. Just one of the many calls that happened on this edition. We also had our favorite guest of all time, Oderus call in not as drunk as the last time he sat in [...]

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Early this morning, Randy Blythe was acquitted of all charges of manslaughter stemming from Lamb of God's 2010 show in Prague. Read our full report. Social networks have been buzzing as musicians reacted to the news. Here is a roundup:

Devin Townsead, lead singer of Strapping Young Lad, interviewed by Snake of A Life Once Lost during the Metal Injection Ozzfest '06 Special. Featuring a cameo by Gunface of the Red Chord. For more clips from Ozzfest 06 visit metalinjection.net

For all our Summer Slaughter live videos/interviews visithttp://met.al/bdm - We attempted to interview Greg and Gunface of The Red Chord in the backstage area of the Summer Slaughter stop in NYC but what resulted was the duo basically shitting on everything. This may just be the most obnoxious Red Chord clip we've ever done, and we've [...]

Watch all of Metal Injection's Summer Slaughter coverage here: http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/channels/summer-slaughter-tv/ Metal Injection kicked off the Summer Slaughter tour with a live pre-game show before the tour kick off in Los Angeles at the House of Blues. We spoke with Job For A Cowboy's Jonny and Charn, and guest bassist Gunface of The Red Chord. This [...]

Watch all of Metal Injection's Summer Slaughter coverage here: http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/channels/summer-slaughter-tv/ Gunface from The Red Chord and Nick from Job For A Cowboy/Cephalic Carnage are just two dads at Summer Slaughter, talking to members of Goatwhore, The Faceless and Veil of Maya with Jonny from Job For A Cowboy lurking in the background.

Loni was back as a guest for this week's show. Many topics were discussed including Metallica on Spotify, outrage over Dave Mustaine postings, Phil Labonte using questionable language, terrible t-shirt purchases off eBay, many of Rob's nicknames in high school and we interviewed Gunface from The Red Chord about his new 8-bit project Unraveller which [...]

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This was a huge week for metal news, with Randy's indictment, the Barge To Hell cruise, Carcass confirming their new album and Mastodon confirming working on a Disney movie. Here are the top 11 most visited pages this week… Gorgeous Girl Sings Metal on France Has Talent LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe Formally Indicted On [...]

The Red Chord guitarist Mike McKenzie made a promise to release a free album of 8-bit tunes, and today he comes through on that promise. He has posted the entire debut album from his project Unraveller, Kinship Synthesis on Soundcloud. Take a listen:

We've previously told you about Unraveller, the new 8-bit project from The Red Chord guitarist, Mike "Gunface" McKenzie. Today, we have new info on the project.

There is no new episode this week but we compiled some of our favorite content from the last few years of doing the show including an interview with Gunface and Greg Weeks of The Red Cord, the origin of "Red Chord merge," calls from Nina and Shlomo, Rob talking about going to a bath house [...]

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Earlier this year, I wrote that new material from The Red Chord was coming this year, but when I talked to Gunface at Summer Slaughter after writing that he clarified to me that he said "within a year" not "this year." Well, looks like we were both right after all. Earlier today, he tweeted that [...]