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Les Claypool jams with Jerry Cantrell in a pretty acoustic setting, and it is awesome as hell.

One of the most fun acts in existance to see live is the mighty Primus. Especially with the aid of any sort of hallucinogen, or just a ton of weed. Some of my favorite concert experiences have been watching these guys shred. If you never got into this band, pick up Frizzle Fry, Sailing the Seven [...]

This is always my favorite portion of the year-end recaps… the portion where we ask you, the Metal Injection junkies, to pick your favorite album. We asked you to submit your top 10 to this forum thread, and then we would tally the final results, by giving each album a reverse score (ie, a junkie's [...]

I offer these up with one of those typical "in no particular order" disclaimers.  That may seem chickenshit to some, but there are just too many disparate strands of metal these days to draw rational lines between whether, say, the best funeral doom album of 2011 was superior to the best progressive death album, for [...]

The weekend is finally here. I'm kicking it off by starting my new show on SiriusXM Liquid Metal tonight, and I'm really pumped about that. It's basically all I've been thinking about all week. But, there were still a ton of huge stories that broke this week, so let's recap, shall we? Our biggest story this week [...]

I want to send a huge thanks to Youtube user evaldopalestra2 who was kind enough to upload video rips of pro-shot footage from the SWU Music & Arts Festival in San Paolo, Brazil of four awesome bands: Down, Alice In Chains, Megadeth and Primus. The video quality is fantastic on these. Down is up top and the [...]

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 [...]

Jeez, it's only Tuesday? It feels like Thursday, which is terrible, because it's not Thursday, and there are still two more days until it is officially Thursday. Thankfully, a lot of awesome new music is available today: Wow this new Aborted track is hot fire! It's the title track from their upcoming album, Global Flatline, [...]

Time off has been good to Primus.  Having seemingly fizzled out with 1999's artistically disastrous Antipop – stunt cast with such head-scratching guest appearances as Toms Morello and Waits, not to mention songs produced by Matt Stone and Fred Durst – the band went into hibernation mode… or, more accurately, they split up indefinitely, with [...]

It's Thursday, but it sort of feels like Wednesday, because of the Labor Day holiday, but that doesn't matter because tomorrow is Friday, which is when the partying really starts! Here is some tunage to get you through the day: We begin today with an epic 14 minute track from RWAKE. I'm not exactly sure [...]

It's Labor Day weekend. We couldn't leave to go party without having some new jams to keep us company. Here's some new stuff we'll be listening to this weekend: Check out this awesome clip Devin Townsend posted of the band that played on his amazing record, Ghost performing the track "Radial Highway" which is set [...]

The middle of the week is here and we have some awesome new jams for you to get pumped on while you wait for the weekend… Eleven years is a long time between album releases, but Primus sound as awesome as ever. They premiered a new track, "Tragedy's A'Comin" on SPIN.com. The track sounds like [...]

Every year my hippie indie friends try to convince me to make the trip out to Middle-of-Nowhere, Tennessee (aka Manchester, TN) to go lay in the grass for four days and listen to some sweet jams at the Bonnaroo festival. While I definitely understand the appeal of a four day escape, where every imaginable type [...]

This edition of the Metal Injection Livecast saw Rob, Noa, 3D, Sid and Sean were joined by our old pal Nick. We talked about the passing of Paul Gray, teen werewolves, Noa's big head, trannys, and we played another rousing edition of Sexual Jeopardy. Here is this week's playlist: Slipknot – Eyeless Los Crudos – [...]

Podcast: Download

The last time Primus toured, I made it my mission to see them when they came to New York. This was about four years ago. I went with Noa, and our friend Drew to the Roseland Ballroom here in the city. We arrived with plenty of time to spare, at least an hour before the [...]