UPDATED: We posted the behind the scenes clip from this week after the jump…

We return with a bang after being off the air last week. This week we seek guns at WalMart, Jenny sings some John Cougar Mellencamp, we discuss what type of awards would be given out if we had an award show for our podcast, awkward fan interactions, a caller who claims he was not from Cocoa, Flordia, parental permission and doody talk. Overall, many laughs were had. Here is this week's playlist:

DECAPITATED – Nihility
VENOM – Countess Bathory
JAVELINA – Towers of Silence
SEPULTURA – Refuse/Resist
W.A.S.P. – The Real Me
SKELETONWITCH – Repulsive Salvation

By the way, here is a little video from last week. We shot it last Wednesday right as we got out of the Neil Hamburger show. See the type of people who attended this show with us: (more…)

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We know we say new episodes every week, but it's been a while since we took a week off, plus America's funnyman, and one of our heroes, Neil F'N Hamburger is doing a rare performance in the greater NY area, and we just had to go. So, we decided this will be the first Wednesday we do not do a podcast since moving to a new day. Hey, give us a break, alright?

But don't worry, we compiled a mixtape of a bunch of special guest call-ins that have happened in recent weeks including phone calls from Jonny Davy of JOB FOR A COWBOY, Snake Sabolnick of A LIFE ONCE LOST, Ian Christe of Bazillion Points Books and SiriusXM Liquid Metal, Tim Lambesis of AS I LAY DYING/AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE, Greg Weeks of THE RED CHORD, Paul Waggoner of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and Travis Ryan of CATTLE DECAPITATION playing our gameshow Death or No Death.

Also, Sid is bringing his Flip camera tonight so he can show you how much fun we're having not doing the Livecast. That clip should be up a little later in the week.

Feel free to to post in the comments why you think we suck for not doing the show tonight. We will be back with a new live episode next week!

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We have just posted a new edition of our music video podcast, The FiX. This edition features videos from BARONESS, CATTLE DECAPITATION, SKELETONWITCH, CONVERGEand GWAR.

Stream the episode here. If you'd like to download the hi-res version of the podcast, click here, or if you would like to subscribe to our podcast, you can do so via iTunes or RSS

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UPDATE: We posted the behind the scenes clip after the jump…

On this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast, we are joined near the beginning of the show by the maggot master himself, Oderus Urungus, vocalist of GWAR. Oderus talked to some of his bohabs (dedicated GWAR fans), talked shit on Kerry King, LORDI, Fox News and more. Also, Darren pens a special tribute song to The Googler. We talk to "Peter Steele" and "Tom Araya" and bring back everybody's favorite segment, Thrash it or Trash It. Here is this week's playlist:

GWAR – Damnation Under God
CROTCHDUSTER – Let Me Into Starfish Land
LUDACHRIST – Most People Are Dicks
LUDACHRIST – This Party Sucks
SOD – Milk
CALLENISH CIRCLE – Ignorant
SLAYER – Psychopathy Red
REVOCATION – Dismantle The Dictator
SOLEFALD – There is Need

Behind the scenes clip after the jump… (more…)

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Peanut butter and jelly. Movies and popcorn. Pummeling metal and praying for world peace. Some things just go together perfectly.

Welcome to the spectacle that is episode 49 of Issue Oriented. First, your fearless host talks to Burnt By The Sun vocalist (and Issue Oriented contributor) Michael Olender about good and evil, the perils of personal creativity, his band's new release Heart of Darkness and much, much more. It's a thought-provoking piece and we know you'll love it.

Then hear film maker Jonathan Kalafer discuss his new award-winning documentary, We Love You. This film documents an annual event called the Rainbow Gathering, which takes place at a different National Park each year. With up to 50,000 people in attendance, Rainbow Gatherings culminate with a prayer for peace taking place each 4th of July – even if Federal Agents shoot pepper spray at kids on July 3. Which Kalafer captured on film. We Love You recently won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Check out this interview – you'll be glad you did.

LISTEN: Issue Oriented episode 49 with Michael Olender (Burnt By The Sun) and Jonathan Kalafer (We Love You)

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Slayer – World Painted Blood
Mercyful Fate – Legend of the Headless Rider
the Misfits – Halloween
Macabre – Acid Bath Vampire
Iced Earth – Transylvania
Freddy Kreuger's Underwear- Metal Moshing Machine
Ancient – Halloween
Bloodbath – Outnumbering The Day
Black Sabbath – Children Of The Grave
Samael – I Love The Dead
Gwar – Slaughterama
Chuck Billy w/ Craig Goldy, Mickey Dee – Fear Of The Dark
Slayer – At Dawn They Sleep
Annihilator – Alison Hell
Helloween – Halloween

Happy Halloween, Kiddies. Remember to contact us at msrcast@gmail.com, and follow us over on Twitter. Come and join Evil C. and Papa Josh over on Facebook, and while you are there, join our facebook fan page, and of course on Myspace.

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UPDATE: We have added this week's Behind the Scenes video after the jump

We had two very special guests on this edition of the METAL INJECTION LIVECAST, Greg Weeks of THE RED CHORD & Paul Waggonner of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME. Greg calls early on and starts some beef with Paul, which Paul responds to later in the show. Also, when Paul comes on the air, we have a hurricane of callers, our most call-ins ever, asking deep questions about his hair cut and Cheetos. In all fairness, some dudes ask some good questions about guitars and the band. Also, we talk about Dave Ellefson's new career reading people's resumes, Geek2Geek and more! We also have a few calls from the Googler, including something in the final minutes of the show that may have been too far! Here is this week's playlist, mostly picked by 3D:

THE RED CHORD – The Ugliest Truth
ANTHRAX feat. PUBLIC ENEMY – Bring The Noise
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – Trip At The Brain
ENTOMBED – Left Hand Path
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – Fossil Genera – A Feed From Cloud Mountain
Plus the comedic stylings of Bill Hicks and Kumail Nanjiani

Click more to watch the Behind the Scenes video… (more…)

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A lot of longtime fans of Metal Injection comment about how they miss the episodic format we had when we first started. We've evolved to a much bigger site than just weekly episodes, but when we started the FiX it was to try to continue the format of those early episodes in terms of showcasing sweet music videos. Well, for this Halloween, since it is the most metal of all holidays we thought we'd do a Halloween special in the tradition of our zombie special and our slasher special. (Wow, I can't believe they were done so long ago). This year's Halloween special takes the Creep Show format of telling three separate tales focusing on Rob, Frank and Noa. Also, all three of them and Sid and 3D each picked a music video to air on the episode. Can you guess who picked what? It's not really that difficult.

You can stream the episode right now at this location. If you'd like to download the hi-res version of the podcast, click here, or if you would like to subscribe to our podcast, you can do so via iTunes or RSS

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Secrets were revealed on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast. We start the podcast discussing Noa setting up a profile for Sid on a geeky dating site. That opens up a whole can of worms with the rest of the Livecast crew. Then, we discuss Dave Mustaine being a baby about METALLICA and end off the show as we always do, talking about porn and bodily functions. The conversation was so good we went 15 minutes past the two hour mark, because this stuff was too good to stop talking about. If you listened live, make sure to listen to the archive because you don't want to miss this. Here is this week's playlist:

CONVERGE – Cutter
AKIMBO – You Can Hear The Honey
HELLNATION – This Is Progress?
THE CHARIOT – Before There Was Atlanta, There Was Douglasville
BLACK SHIPS – The Flaws In Self Help
LORDS – Man, Everything Sucks
MAGRUDERGRIND – Fools Of Contradiction
BOTCH – Japam
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED – Glass Tornado
VICTIMS – How Could I Lie?
CURSED – Negative Two Point Five
GRAF ORLOCK – Dutch and the Demon
BUCKET FULL OF TEETH – Lost Keys

UPDATE: We have added behind the scenes footage from this week's show after the jump… (more…)

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For our second episode we look at another side of epicness. Prior to entering the studio we heard the call of the Northern Forests. Mounting our glorious steeds, we rode deep into the mountains of Santa Cruz until we came upon the Pagan Circle (no really, there is one). After slaughtering the dirty hippies within the surrounding area, we used their blood to channel the Gods of Old. Thus did Odin call down to us from Valhalla, commanding that we dedicate the next Epicast to him and the glory of Asgard with only the best Folk, Pagan and Viking Metal.

Hammer Horde – In The Name of Winter's Wrath – Under the Mighty Oath
Thyrfing – Själavrak
Einherjer – Burning Yggdrasil – Norwegian Native Art
Tyr – By The Sword in My Hand – By The Light of the Northern Star
Primordial – The Song of the Tomb
Suidakra – Shattering Swords – Crógacht
Alestorm – Pirate Song – Black Sails At Midnight
Korpiklaani – Let's Drink – Tervaskanto
Eluveitie – Gray Sublime Archon – Slaynia
Amon Amarth – Prediction of Warfare

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UPDATE: Hit more to check out the behind the scenes clip from this week…

On this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast, we spent an obscenely large amount of time dedicated to shit stories — as in, stories about feces. Other than that, JCVD joined us and played a commercial for his new off-off-off-Broadway play, Death of a Salesman. Other topics discussed include Phil Anselmo rants, Peter Steele's gear and more. Here is this week's playlist:

Obituary – Boiling Point
The Red Chord – One Robot To Another
Ensiferum – From Afar
Sick Of It All – Scratch The Surface
Stormtroopers Of Death – Pussy Whipped
Evile – Infected Nation
Comedy bits from George Carlin, Louis CK and Aziz Ansari

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Absu – Those of the Void Will Re-enter
These Are They – Birthright of the Saturnine
Voivod – God Phones
Demoniacal Genuflection – Hail The Serpents of Eden
F.K.U. – Where Moshers Dwell
Suffocation – Marital Decimation ('09 Versions)
WildeStarr – Generation Next
Tenet – Unnameable
Insidious Decrepancy – Contemptuous Inception
Gwar – Metal Metal Land
Swashbuckle – Cruise Ship Terror

Bonus Track :  Evile – Thrashers – R.I.P. Mike Alexander

Remember to contact us at msrcast@gmail.com, and follow us over on Twitter. Come and join Evil C. and Papa Josh over on Facebook, and while you are there, join our facebook fan page, and of course on Myspace.

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Is your iPod full of music from bands with swoopy hair and toothy publicity photos? Then you're probably not punk enough to handle The Kominas.

Based in Boston and NYC, this (cautiously) self-defined Punjabi punk band have become accidental media darlings thanks to their re-configuration of two seemingly incompatible cultural forms – punk rock and Islam. Muslim punk rockers? Well, sort of. And yes, it's as uncommon as it sounds.

In fact, the very first Islam-influenced punk bands existed only in a work of fiction – a novel called The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammed Knight. The Taqwacores may have been about an imaginary Muslim punk scene, but it rippled out into the real world, inspiring real-world kids to form real-world bands. The Kominas have been covered by CNN, MTV, Rolling Stone and various other mainstream outlets, but their story is often over-simplified, or botched all together.

Which is why, of course, you tune in to Issue Oriented. In one of the most compelling interviews we've ever featured, The Kominas and I talked about extremism, racism, Islam, punk, the media and so much more. Kominas members Shahjehan Khan and Basim Usmani, joined by Omar Waqar of Sarmust, lay it all out with a level of clarity that would certainly make most casual music fans at least a teensy bit uncomfortable. They also wonder aloud about when the day will come when people will be more interested in their music than their unusual story. Of course, those two things are inextricably linked, so it's complicated.

This episode of Issue Oriented is not to be missed! (more…)

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Thor Shredsteen joined us on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast for what he said was a very important announcement. Thor just ended up making fun of Sid. Also, we discussed shrimp, high fructose corn syrup, toilet-based ejaculation, Wizards, we got a phone call for a 15-year-old female fan and finally met Chuck Blandington's girlfriend.

Here is this week's playlist:
Dark Tranquillity – The Lesser Faith
The Red Chord – Embarrassment Legacy
Falconer – Pale Light of Silver Moon
Darkane – Rape of Mankind
Magrudergrind – Bridge Burners

We also sprinkled in some stand up comedy bits from Neil Hamburger

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Frank has returned to bestow upon you another round of heavy metal to soothe your earbuds. The theme this week is "InstruMetal" featuring some of the best metal instrumentals around. So sit back, and get ready to down some shots of br00tality. Make sure to tip your bartenders. Here is the playlist:

The Red Chord – It Came From Over There
Don Caballero – Sure we had knives around
Circus Maximus – Sane no More
Pagan's Mind – Coming Home
Marty Friedman – Saturation Point
Liquid Tension Experiment – Acid Rain
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Spastic Ink – Just a Little Dirty
Blotted Science – Bleeding in the Brain
Grayceon – It begins and so it ends
The Advantage – Contra Boss Music
Faith No More – Woodpecker From Mars
Testament – Urotsukidoji
Jeff Loomis – Jato Unit
Chris Adler of Lamb of God – The Near Dominance of 4 Against 5
Metallica – The Call of Ktulu

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On this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast, we had two awesome guests! At the beginning of the show, we were joined by Ian Christe, author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal and Bazillion Points publishing and SiriusXM Bloody Roots DJ, who schools us with some metal knowledge about an upcoming metal cookbook, Sweedish kickers, and Hanoi Rocks. We are then joined by Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying/Austrian Death Machine who talks about his favorite Arnold movie, the recording of Austrian Death Machine. Both interviewees were questioned by one of our fans, affectionately known as The Googler. All that and Sid aurally molests Noa on this edition of the Livecast. Here is this week's playlist:

Entombed – Abnormally deceased
Hanoi Rocks – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Nanowar – To Kill the Dragon
Dragonlord – Blood Voyeur
Despised Icon – Day Of Mourning
Austrian Death Machine - Trapped Under Ice
Autopsy – Twisted Mass Of Burnt Decay
Primordial – Gallows Hymn
Shat – Tit Fuck

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We have posted an all new edition of our bi-weekly music video podcast, The FiX. This week, we had the pleasure of being joined by GOJIRA vocalist Joe Duplantier, who picks five of his favorite videos which include choice cuts from METALLICA, TOOL, SEPULTURA, DESPISED ICON and a pretty sweet video from French band TREPALIUM (a band I've never heard of before).

During the course of the podcast we talk to Joe about various topics. He gives us some insight on what it is like opening for Metallica. Also, we find out that Gojira will be on break for 2010 and will return with new music in 2011. Finally, we get some hints that there will definitely be a new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY cd in the future!

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This edition of the Metal Injection Livecast featured the return of Thrash It or Trash It, with suggestions for bands exclusively from our chat room. The people in our chat definitely have good taste in music as this might have been the most positive outing yet with a few good bands. We listened to After the Burning, Humanity Will Suffer, Dinoflagellated Chrysophyta, The Ender. Also, Metal Misha and Sinister Sasha stop by to atone for their sins. We also hear from their friend br00tal Boris. Check out this playlist (featuring stand up comedy sprinkled in):

MEGADETH – Endgame
Doug Benson – Boo and Hiss
ALICE IN CHAINS – Acid Bubble
NAGLFAR – Blades
DOOMRIDERS – Heavy Lies The Crown
John Mulaney – Scarface, Amnesia, And One Hundred Million Dollars
PROTEST THE HERO – Bloodmeat (Live)
BURNT BY THE SUN – Cardiff Giant
CACOPHONY – Go Off

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