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HYPOCRISY have officially announced that their U.S. visas have finally been cleared. You will remember that they were supposed to be on tour last November with ENSIFERUM and even landed Alexi Laiho to come fill in on guitar for the tour and everybody got all excited. Then, the U.S. government was taking forever with their [...]

by Robert Pasbani Here at Metal Injection, seeing as though we are a video site we come across a helluva lot of music videos, most of which are just a band performing in a warehouse with some fancy lighting. It always impresses me when a band takes the time to create awesome visuals to match [...]

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 [...]

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Move over Heathenfest, you have some competition this Fall/Winter. Just announced is a new tour featuring ENSIFERUM (above) along with HYPOCRISY, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD and the thrashing pirates in SWASHBUCKLE on some dates. Are you excited? Full dates after the jump…

Ahoy maytees! Ye old thrash pirates in SWASHBUCKLE have made their album Back to the Noose available for free streaming at their MySpace page. Also, don't forget to check our recent

Continuing our coverage of Pagan Fest 2009, we present a goofy interview with the pirate thrashers known as SWASHBUCKLE. These guys were pretty good sports with me giving them shit about being "pirates" based out of New Jersey and had some great responses to my "hard-hitting" journalistic inquiries. Check out the interview below. We also [...]

Justina Villanueva | Most awesome correspondent The day begun with Popeyes, a 2 hour drive to Allentown, PA and some interviews. Noa interviewed her favorite band Moonsorrow. Rob caught up with Swashbuckle in their stage uniforms, Blackguard with their [enter Canadian joke here] and Korpiklanni with their Smirnoff Ices. At showtime, Swashbuckle proved to have [...]

We are getting pretty pumped up for PaganFest II (in case you haven't heard, it features KORPIKLAANI, PRIMORDIAL, MOONSORROW, BLACKGUARD and SWASHBUCKLE. Full details here.) This is the type of event that you cannot attend sober. The fine people at UrbanTrend feel your pain and have come up with the extremely useful Viking Horn Beer [...]

SWASHBUCKLE – Drink Up ALESTORM – Wolves of the Sea TURISAS – Rasputin KORPIKLAANI – Runamoine CRIMFALL – Where Waning Winds Lead KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI – Blacksmith TÝR – Valkyrjan Catch SWASHBUCKLE and KORPIKLAANI on this year's Paganfest! ALESTORM and TÝR are coming around with the Pagan Knights tour soon as well. Jim's profile Send Jim [...]

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If you missed the first PaganFest (or our awesome live coverage) then you need to attend "PaganFest America: Part II". It's an all out party with sing-a-longs and awesome music. This year's tour will include Finland's KORPIKLAANI as the headliners, Switzerland's ELUVEITIE returning for a second year, Ireland's PRIMORDIAL, (Noa's favorite band) Finland's MOONSORROW, Canada's [...]