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Interview: Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Blotted Science)

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Coined by producer/Hate Eternal frontman Erik Rutan, Alex Webster is the Steve Harris of death metal. Webster, one of the two remaining original members of death metal pioneers Cannibal Corpse, has been kicking ass for decades and shows absolutely no signs of stopping his signature, technical assault any time soon. I got a chance to catch up with Alex at The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina on their fifth date of the Torture U.S. Tour, which also featured excellent performances from the brutal likes of Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn, and Arkaik. A thirty-minute conversation took place, in which we discussed both the past and present of Cannibal, what's been going on with this side project Blotted Science, the problems with modern live albums, and much more.  (more…)

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INVERLOCH – The Metal Injection Interview

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Charging up their batteries for an imminent European tour, Matthew Skarajew and Paul Mazziotta of diSEMBOWELMENT, er… d.USK, er… Inverloch take a brief respite from their musical activities and reminisce about their early days, introduce their new homies, and ponder about the current state of doom metal. (more…)

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VENOM Frontman Cronos: The Metal Injection Interview

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Venom have been nothing but a constant and reassuring presence since they added a darkly sardonic and revolting twist to heavy metal in England four decades ago. They have never strayed much from their underground roots and continually display unfathomable persistence to stay committed to black metal and sternly reject commercial acceptance and all that comes with it. Still to this day, Venom champion the genre they spawned and feel a somewhat responsibility to helping their fellow contemporaries be heard. Now, as they prepare to release their latest offering ‘Fallen Angels’ , Venom vocalist, bassist and producer Cronos, shares his thoughts on the new record, where the band are now and why he’ll never sing about being a table…

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RON JARZOMBEK – The Metal Injection Interview

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I remember the first time I ever heard Spastic Ink's debut LP Ink Complete I immediately stopped what I was doing as if I had the worse brain freeze of my life. I remember thinking "How can anyone possibly sit down and write this!?" Mind you, this was in the late 90's when technical metal was still very new and sounded nothing like the complexity of Spastic Ink's original sound. Many years later Ron Jarzombek's latest and heaviest project Blotted Science, a favorite here at Metal Injection HQ, has released yet another brain freezing masterpiece entitled The Animation of Entomology. I had the chance to speak with Ron concerning his music, his method, the future, and more. (more…)

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CENSURA – The Metal Injection Interview

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By now you folks probably know one of my favorite pastimes is to expose unsigned bands doing really cool shit. So when Censura from Ireland was first thrown my way, I braced myself for what I thought would end up as another Celtic flavored folk band on a 6th generation wave of heritage cashing. Instead I was greeted with a very current fresh look at something going on in metal from the last place I'd expect to hear it. A few weeks ago Metal Injection premiered Censura's music video to the world, and it wound up being one of the most popular music videos on our network this year. Today I bring you a closer look at Censura as I interview guitarist Dom Mc Inerney. (more…)

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EVILE Frontman Matt Drake: The Metal Injection Interview

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Losing a treasured band member in some tragic circumstance or another is becoming just all too frequent. Just ask British new-wave thrashers Evile, who decided to turn their anguished situation into a renaissance to honor their fallen comrade. The result of their astonishing courage is Five Serpent’s Teeth, their third record and a by-product of not only their unstoppable will, but also their proletariat ethic as the working man's band, which hits stores today on Earache Records. Read along for info on how the album came to be, the history of the band, how they are dealing with the tragic loss of their bassist two years ago and other topics.  (more…)

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VREID – The Metal Injection Interview

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Noway's Vreid has been a band I've been excited about for a few years now. They're just as fun to watch live as they are to listen to while practicing your claw and scowl in the privacy of your bedroom. Just sayin'. Most recently they released a stellar LP titled V, and decided it was time to hit up The United States again, but this time on their first ever headlining run. Needless to say I was stoked, but due to forces beyond anyone's control (hurricane Irene) the NY date was canceled. While I unfortunately didn't get the chance to watch, or meet up with the band in NY, I did however score a written interview with the band's songwriter, bassist, and producer, Hváll. (more…)

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DODSFERD's Wrath – The Metal Injection Interview

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Behold!  The Metal Injection interview with Wrath, high priest of misanthropic black metal ensembles such as Dodsferd, Nadiwrath and (maybe!) NunOnBong!  Fucking A! Wrath has been a busy man the past few years, churning out a bottomless slew of full lengths, splits and EPs, primarily under the Dodsferd moniker but also Drunk Earth, Grab, Kampf and – most recently – Nadiwrath.  MI spoke with Wrath in the wake of the most recent Dodsferd studio opus, Spitting with Hatred, The Insignificance of Life.

So enjoy!  Or don't! We could give two shits about your trendy human whims!  Also, all grammar mistakes have been left intact for the sake of integrity, as Wrath does not bow to Strunk and Wagnall's Elements of Style and goddamn it neither do we!  [sic sic sic] is the number of the beast! (more…)

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A Look Back At The REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS 2011 Black Carpet


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It's official. We are DONE posting interviews from this year's Revolver Golden Gods Awards. We have almost 30 clips in total, with endless amounts of compliments for my shiny jacket. Just added today are clips with:

These clips complement the already posted videos featuring:

Catch up on all the chaos from the black carpet to get you ready for the Vh1 Classic broadcast of the Golden Gods later this month. Which interview was your favorite? Let us know in the comments…

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Before the Hype: A 2009 Interview with ANb's Katherine Katz

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In the last two years Katherine Katz made her debut as Agoraphobic Nosebleed's third vocalist, recorded the Our Enemy Civilization split with Thou, released Terminal on Profound Lore Records with her original doom band Salome, and toured with acts such as Wolves in the Throne Room, Landmine Marathon and Shrinebuilder. Unfortunately, Kat recently left Salome, but is continuing to make music with ANb and is planning to work on other projects in the near future. I got the opportunity to speak with Kat for my friend's college radio show a few weeks after Agorapocalypse was released. I always felt sort of bad that this interview reached so few people after she generously gave me about 15 minutes of her time, so I thought it would be fun to finally release it here on Metal Injection: (more…)

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Varg Vikernes, The Metal Injection Interview

The rules were made pretty clear this time around: no inquiries about his family, prison or politics, as Varg Vikernes did his best to expunge himself of those insights during last year's round of interviews for Belus.  But lest this come off like a demand for softball questions, know that Vikernes is a consummately disagreeable fellow who will find something to quibble with even if one is merely requesting his favorite color.

Still, better that than another cookie cutter interview with the typical, pre-scripted "give it 110%" / "doing it for the fans" bullshit.

With that I bring you… (more…)

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Who Is CLOUDKICKER?

by: Frank Godla


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I've never really felt as though our interviews needed a preface before, however this interview has broken grounds with several things we've never done in Metal Injection history.

For starters, when I was linked to a Cloudkicker page last year, I was blown away at this "local act". However, knowing how swamped I get with releases from all over the industry day after day, there wasn't much time to dig deep into an unsigned band no matter how much I enjoyed them. Fast forward a couple months after the release of Cloudkicker's ]]]][[[[ EP, and the September release of their full length entitled Beacons, I no longer cared whether this band would ever be signed. (more…)

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MALEVOLENT CREATION Guitarist Is NOT A Fan of ALL SHALL PERISH


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When All Shall Perish agreed to sit down with us during the New York stop of the Summer Slaughter tour we knew we'd have a fun interview, but we never thought we'd get a story out of it as awesome as this. Guitarist Ben Orum told a story of meeting Malevolent Creation frontman Brett Hoffman CORRECTION: guitiarst Phil Fasciana the previous night:

I was a big Malevolent Creation fan growing up in the 90s. I got up to him, really sincenere, going "It's really nice to meet you guys" and he goes [deep voice] 'Do you have any fucking cocaine?'. I go no and then he puts his middle finger in my face and goes 'Then, fuck you!'

But that wasn't even the best part of it. When Orum started gushing about how he was a big fan of Hoffman, the Malevolent Creation guitarist sounded off on All Shall Perish and bands like them: (more…)

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MESHUGGAH reveal they are working on a new album, hate Future Breed Machine

Meshugg – ahem, excuse me – MESSSHHUUGGGAAAHHHHHHH played Australia's Soundwave Festival back in February, and Tomas and Marten took some time to do an interview and discuss what the band is up to. It's a pretty solid interview, with both guys seemingly relaxed and showing a bunch of personality. Here are the bullet points of what I learned from the interview:

- They are writing a new album. They say there is a 90% chance it will be out by the end of 2011.
- They intentionally left out any drunken antics off of the Alive DVD because they felt it's been overdone.
- They hate playing Future Breed Machine.
- I really need to see this band live again.

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PIG DESTROYER still hate cops

We had the extreme pleasure to get an interview with one of the best bands going today, grindcore masters PIG DESTROYER. It was a really fun interview, as the dudes are super nice guys. We learned about their day jobs, what disturbs them, their feelings on cops and much more. Watch it above. If you missed the assloads of live footage we have been posting of the band, here is a full list of what's up so far. I think we still have another clip or so to go:

PIG DESTROYER Loathsome Live
PIG DESTROYER Naked Trees Live
PIG DESTROYER Deathtripper Live
PIG DESTROYER Heathen Temple LIVE
PIG DESTROYER Rotten Yellow Live
PIG DESTROYER The Machete Twins Live

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