Metal Injection

For a band that has been throwing around the idea of retirement the past few years, Iron Maiden are still pumping out quality jams. Apparently they don't plan on stopping.

It's somewhat disarming that, in an era where bands are forced to deliberately misspell (Pyyramids, CHVRCHES) or omit vowels (VYGR, MSTRKRFT) from their names in order to avoid cease-and-desist letters from groups with similar sobriquets, a modern Swedish sextet had the guile to believe that "Ghost" might still be on the table… in 2010. Needless to say, [...]

In case you haven’t heard the news or the teaser material, Finnish humppa-metallers Finntroll—Vreth, Trollhorn, Beast Dominator & Co.—are back with their seventh studio album, after making us wait three years for the pleasure. But dammit the wait was worth it. Although, when I first listened to the album, I noticed that something was different. [...]

An ominous chorus begins to swell as a deadpan drum is beaten in the background. A voice comes onto the microphone like a demonic preacher and begins to spew sermon. Staring at the album's cover and listening to the prophetic banter, suddenly things start to come together. The grounds will crack, the dead shall raise [...]

Körkarlen, or The Phantom Carriage, was released in 1921 and directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström. According to its story, the last person to die on New Years Eve has to take the reigns of death and ford souls for a year. The film is considered massively influential, Ingmar Bergman was especially [...]

Swedish death metal masters Hypocrisy are heading back to the states. The band is set to release their new album, End Of Disclosure, next month and have announced a tour later this spring in support of said release. They have amassed a killer lineup of fellow death metal bands to take on the road with [...]

Vocalist Johannes Eckerström of Swedish carnival metal band AVATAR visits NYC and goes sight-seeing at Ripley's Believe It Or Not in Times Square. It's safe to say Johannes fit right in. Go see Avatar on tour.

"Trenches", the new video from Swedish metallers THE HAUNTED, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in December 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden with director Daniel Larsson of Addictive Alliance.

The new video from Swedish heavy metal band HammerFall, entitled "Any Means Necessary". Taken from the album "No Sacrifice, No Victory", released on February 20th, 2009.

"Guardians of Asgaard", the new video from Swedish viking metallers AMON AMARTH (featuring a guest appearance by ENTOMBED's L.G. Petrov). off "Twilight of the Thunder God"

FALCONER's new video for By the Roses Grave (Vid Rosornas Grav) is taken off the bands brand new studio album Armod, which features 11 songs sung completely in Swedish, out now on Metal Blade Records Comments FALCONER guitarist Stefan Weinerhall: "The video for By the Roses Grave is re-enacting a story that took place not [...]

On the heels of their Spring tour announcement, Ghost have announced that due to legal reasons, they will now be referred to as Ghost B.C. in the United States:

While that particular headline is not true for me, as I've been a fan of the band for some time, I did catch a few of my metal bros who are not fond of the band passing this around the internet calling themselves Ghostbusters. Honestly, even as a fan I had a good laugh and [...]

If anybody knows how to do melodeth, it's Swedish mainstays Hypocrisy. I mean, frontman Peter Tägtgren is a producer responsible for many of your favorite melo-death records, so he should know a thing or two about how to write a catchy song. I'm really digging the title track off their new album, End Of Disclosure. [...]

Our two-week hiatus continues with another top notch mixtape. Here is what you will hear this episode: Sean's "friend" and his Literotica fetish Rob reads his number on air Dave Mustaine press statement about praying in the hospital Rob clogs a Swedish toilet Death of Osama bin Laden talk Carol's first phone call Cousin Brucie [...]

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