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One of biggest stories of the week here at Metal Injection, statistically speaking, was our coverage of Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine saying that Barack Obama staged recent shootings in the U.S. to push a gun control policy. The story got picked up by many major media outlets including Grantland, HuffPo and TMZ. Now comes the [...]

Last weekend I left the city of London, whose populous were mainly frothing at the mouth over the Olympics, and headed north to Derbyshire for the UK’s biggest independent metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air. With a line-up boasting the likes of headliners Behemoth, Machine Head and Alice Cooper, I was hardly biting the proverbial bullet [...]

I'm pretty sure this was old news, but what's old is new again with Slipknot in town (ohhh, sick burn! jk ya'll, you guys put on a great show at Mayhem). Anyway, Clown, aka #6 gave an interview recently and one of the topics discussed was how each member picked their number, and how the [...]

I can't believe I actually listened to an entire Insane Clown Posse song, but stranger things have happened. A few weeks ago we reported that the band was shooting a music video for their new single "Chris Benoit," a song named after and inspired by the actions of the late professional wrestler of the same [...]

If Slipknot has been off your radar in the past few months, it’s imperative to know that this is not exactly a new album from the band. I know I perked up immediately when I had first heard reports of Antennas To Hell coming out, but was subsided a bit after learning it was a [...]

I missed Slipknot when they played in Dallas earlier this week, because of work, so I'm a little bummed out. However, I received a press release earlier stating Slipknot's final performance of the year, the August 18 and final date of Knotfest, will be streamed live on Pay-Per-View. And since I can't commit the drive [...]

Two ICP stories in just as many days? What is going on? I'm quite confused and concerned. Last week, I got an email from a publicist announcing a bunch of new Soulfly dates, with one of those being at Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos in August. I was pretty shocked, and I knew [...]

Bare with me here, because I know this isn't exactly metal news, but this is too shocking not to write about. The Insane Clown Posse is a band that we've probably given more coverage to than we should but this story is too good to pass up. The rap duo is releasing a new album [...]

Over the weekend, Slipknot teased a major announcement this morning with the accompanying graphic of a carival with Slipknot flags all over it. Today, they released an announcement. They will be curating the first ever KnotFest will take place on August 17th at the Mid-America Motorplex in Pacific Junction, Iowa and Saturday August 18th in Somerset, on the [...]

Corey Taylor, a man who two years ago said it's too soon to talk about Slipknot recording, is now finally at the point where he can discuss the progress Slipknot is making. The healing has begun! It makes sense, since the band recently got together to celebrate the two year anniversary of the tragic passing [...]

One of the biggest questions in metal right now is when is Slipknot going to put out new material. We know it will happen. Heck, we interviewed Clown a few months ago, and he told us so himself. Drummer Joey Jordison is writing new material. The band has hinted before that they hope to enter [...]

This is going to be big. A few weeks ago, we broke the story that the organizers of the Mayhem Festival were planning to bring the fest to international waters in the form of a killer cruise happening this winter. Today, the festival organizers have revealed all the info you need to know about who's [...]

Ok, I didn't believe that Mayan-calendar-2012-end-of-the-world bullshit before, but now I'm sort of questioning myself as news has surfaced that Fred Durst is collaborating with the Insane Clown Posse on a cover track. It's of course a cover of a rap song, AMG's "Bitch Better Have My Money." The track is appearing on an ICP cover [...]

Leave it to our friends at Metal Insider to sleuth out all the information needed (and create the silly graphic attached to this post). Yesterday, we got the exclusive scoop about a new cruise on the horizon from the Mayhem Fest creators, when Robb Flynn spilled the beans that Machine Head, Lamb of God, Anthrax [...]

We will be uploading a ton of videos over the course of the next few weeks that we shot at South By Southwest a few weeks back, documenting all the metal happenings at that event. One of my personal highlights was getting to sit down and talk with M. Shawn Crahan, aka Clown of Slipknot. [...]