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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.

Last I looked the economy was still in the shitter, so the theme of this year's preface is doing SXSW on the (relative) cheap. The main misconception that I hear about SXSW – even among fellow Austinites – is that it costs a fortune to attend. Yes, it's true that if you plan on attending [...]

After a mess of big name releases last Tuesday we're heading back to the underground this week. While the usual heavy hitters (Relapse, Southern Lord, Century Media, etc) take a week off it's time for the likes of Listenable, Peaceville, and Throatruiner to shine.

Suffocation are, for all intents and purposes, my death metal home base. I was weaned on the mid-90s death metal scene in New York City, and Suffocation were royalty. Pierced from Within is an all-time favorite and my personal benchmark for heaviness in metal. Despite my youthful devotion, I haven’t been an early adopter of [...]

From their debut full-length album, From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest, out February 26th on Glory Kid Ltd. Pre-Order the album here.

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Just over five months ago Black Sabbath, the band who the term ‘heavy metal’ was coined for, played their first hometown show in Birmingham in thirteen years. Tonight, their friends and fans in New Orleans super-group Down, rolled into ‘The Workshop of the World’ as a headliner themselves, of a completely sold-out show and with [...]

The Metal Injection camp has been following the events of the Baroness UK bus crash very closely. We have reported about the events that happened during the crash and even the injuries sustained by the members of the band and their crew. All of this has been horrific and we have been waiting with baited breath [...]

Geo·dissonance: the metal movement is proliferating to all corners of the globe. In its relentless display of vitriolic truths and the ugliest questions of existence, we can hear the resounding riffs of heavy metal in the most conservative pockets of society. As your Punjabi, riff-worshiping correspondent, I've created Geodissonance to report the controversy: as metal [...]

When you usher an innate passion for riffs with the demons invoked by years of heavy boozing and tripped out touring, self-destruction can become a familiar – almost safe – haven. Such was the case for Devin Townsend. The infamously vitriolic and belovedly eccentric, former frontman of Strapping Young Lad described, in a recent EverythingRock [...]

¡ ATTENTION !To whom it may concern:AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silenceTHIS STATION IS …NOW…OPERATIONAL — At The Drive-In (@AtTheDriveIn_) January 9, 2012 At The Drive In is a band that had a ton of hype surrounding them when they came out in the early '00s, but they just couldn't get [...]

You may recall that a little over a month ago, the recording of The Faceless' new album was delayed as guitarist Michael Keene injured himself after tripping over a table and getting 17 stitches put in his hand. Ouch! You know the saying: time heals all wounds, and the Keene machine is healed and the [...]

A few months ago, things were looking up, when Dimebag's self-professed "hag" Rita Haney mentioned that her and Phil have pretty much buried the hatchet. She also went onto mention that Vinnie Paul was none to happy about it. Well, if he was reconsidering his stance, Phil may have just done a disservice to healing [...]

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is set to appear in an upcoming webisode for AMC's The Walking Dead, posting on his official blog about his experience being morphed into a zombie. 

Metal Injection sent roving reporter Chloe Scannapieco to Sonisphere UK last weekend, and she came back full of great memories of seeing Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Mastodon, In Flames, Slipknot, Volbeat, and others. We asked Chloe to write a blog about her journey and here is her recap of her expereinces in a field in [...]