Metal Injection

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.

I got very excited when looking in my inbox and finding a press release for a new Tool release. Of course, Tool said they'd be putting out a new album this year, until Maynard crapped on that parade so I was like "wait a minute??" Turns out the band is celebrating the 21st anniversary of [...]

Fans of Marduk and Moonspell, get pumped. The two groups are teaming up for a North American tour in 2013 and they're bringing Inquisition, The Foreshadowing, and Death Wolf with them. Tour dates were just announced today, moments before I checked out for the year. Here's the routing:

Now this is a tour. Enslaved have announced their first tour of the States, since their crushing new release RIITIIR came out and they have packed it with some killer openers. Pallbearer, a band I fell in love with this year (think epic black metal gaze) and Ancient VVisdom (also gazy) have been tapped as openers for this early [...]

Another amazing tour has been announced. Thrash revivalists Municipal Waste and heading back out on the road and taking out the Godfathers of Grind, the GrindFathers if you will, Napalm Death. As if that wasn't enough, Exhumed is going on the road with these guys as well. Holy crap, that's a fantastic headbanging package. To [...]

The Melvins are looking to make history by setting the Guinness World Record for the first band to play all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. in 51 days. That is literally one show every day in a different part of the country. Anyone who has been on tour knows just how easy it is [...]

Gus G. is taking a break from his lead guitar duties for the Ozzy Osbourne band to hit the road with his personal love, Firewind. The Greek metal machine will be taking out two very suitable openers on the road with them in Arsis and Nightrage. If you're a fan of shred, this is clearly [...]