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We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub. Day 1 First lesson of the tour: If the tour manager [...]

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Parents, we have an important message, legendary Norweigan black metal band MAYHEM have made it into the states. If you are unfamiliar with the carnage this band has caused, Dave Hill provides a thorough summary. The band will be headlining BLACKENEDFEST and have "successfully entered the U.S. this afternoon and are currently in New Jersey [...]

You know that when Metal Injection sponsors a tour, we hook up our junkies, and Blackendfest is no different. The trek, which features the inventors of grim, MAYHEM along with MARDUK, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED will make its way across the country (and into Canada) and we're giving away a pair of tickets [...]

San Diego's leading misanthropes CATTLE DECAPITATION, better known as a beastly death-grindcore band riding on their best album yet, just bestowed a new video on us for "Regret & the Grave." In their latest adventure, Cattle Decapitation tear it up in a roomful of meat hooks while imprisoned beings are led to their dismemberment, sort [...]

Metal Injection is extremely honored to annouce that we are sponsoring BLACKENEDFEST, the 2009 return to the U.S. by black metal legends MAYHEM. Along for the ride is the equally awesome MARDUK as well as CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION and WITHERED. Seeing as though we are sponsoring this tour, you can expect our usual ticket [...]