Pestilence – Devouring Frenzy

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PESTILENCE "Devouring Frenzy" Video of the new album Resurrection Macabre. In stores now! More info on the new album can be found on www.pestilence.nl and www.mascotrecords.com Video produced by Frank Duijnisveld @ Woestwerk MD www.woestwerk.com

The Faceless – Pestilence Live (Pro Shot) Summer Slaughter

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Visit http://www.metalinjection.tv for more videos. Shot at Summer Slaughter 2007, at the final tour stop in BB Kings New York

THE FACELESS Pestilence Live at Summer Slaughter 08

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70,000 Tons of Metal Tour Dates

More Bands Added to 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise

70,000 Tons of Metal 2012

The second annual 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise is over six months away, but the lineup is already heating up. Just announced are four more bands added to the bill: Coroner, Amorphis, Moonsorrow and In Extremo. Of course the bands already announced are Eluveitie, Grave Digger, My Dying Bride, Pestilence, Stratovarius, Therion and Tristania. This cruise is a metal experience like no other. If you don't believe us, take a look at our video report or take a peek at our photos from last year. Tickets are now on sale, with more info found here.

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First 70,000 Tons of Metal 2012 Acts Announced!

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If you're unfamiliar with 70,000 Tons of Metal, it's pretty much the greatest thing on the planet. Over 5 days, over 2,000 metalheads hop on board a luxury cruise ship for the world's only metal fest on the open seas. Rob and his ragtag bunch of Injection staffers walked on board for the 2011 cruise, posting a 20-minute video and over 500 photos of sunbathing and debauchery. (more…)

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Audio Roundup: New Music from ROTTEN SOUND, SCAR SYMMETRY, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, PESTILENCE, ACROSS THE SUN, KEN MODE

For today's audio roundup, we have a buffet of differently styled metal for your approval. We have something for fans of grind, death, core and noise. So pick your poison…

Get your grind on. We recently saw Rotten Sound live and it's the most fun your ears will have bleeding for 30 minutes straight. The band is out promoting their new album Cursed which can be streamed in it's entirety on Lambgoat, and hits stores March 15th on Relapse.


Frank loves Scar Symmetry, so I'm curious to see what he thinks of this new song from the band he coined as Death Jovi. You can stream their new track above!

For those of you who are not into the melodic vocals as much and more into the gutteral with a splash of -core, then you will be excited to know an As Blood Runs Black track is now streaming over at Noisecreep.

For those of you who like the death without all of that -core getting in the way, then check out Pestilence's new track, Sinister, available on their website. It comes from the band's new album, Doctrine, which will be released late April through Mascot Records.

If you like the melodic and the core but not so much the gutteral or the core, then perhaps this new track from Across The Sun is for you. The band is streaming "Before The Night Takes Us" on Stereokiller.

Finally, if you are a fan of noise, then we highly suggest checking out KEN Mode, who are all about thick riffs and sick grooves. The band's new Kurt Ballou produced album Venerable is currently streaming on Stereogum and sounds totally fucking killer. Check em out.

Upcoming Releases

PESTILENCE Posts New Track on Myspace

By: Navjot Kaur Sobti

Igniting the legendary death and thrash sectors of metal in 2010, a seeming period of nonstop metal resurrections, is the re-emergence of Pestilence. Set to hit the stages this coming summer, after almost 15+ years of silent repose– zero tours or releases – the group broke their silence with 2009’s Resurrection Macabre, and just recently, with a new track, entitled “amGod.” An early rehearsal recording, featuring just “drum and guitar parts,” the band wished to share a small piece of their upcoming release, which is due later this year.
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Tour Dates

PESTILENCE announce U.S. Tour with VITAL REMAINS, WARBRINGER

More than a few metalheads were bummed when Pestilence couldn't make it to the Maryland Deathfest last year. Looks like the band is planning to make that up that date this year, and even head out on a full U.S. run, their first in 16 years. It all starts at this year's MDF on May 30th after which the band will be joined by Warbringer, Vital Remains, Enfold Darkness and . Here are the announced dates: (more…)

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The FiX #29 – Secret Santa

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We have a very very special edition of The FiX, just in time for the holidays. We went undercover to present this scathing expose on the secret life of Santa Claus. You will never believe what that guy is up to. Special appearances from Jesus Christ, Mrs. Claus, Oderus Urungus of GWAR and more. Also, when we aren't exposing Santa, we play some kickass videos from the likes of EPICA, EX-DEO, GOROD, PESTILENCE & OVERKILL.

Watch the episode now in our streaming player. 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

Our Previous (anti)Holiday Specials
2008: Seasons Bleedings – Holiday Horror flick
2006: Our AntiChrist-mas Special
12 Metal Days of Christmas

Podcast: Download

Metal Up Your Ass

METAL UP YOUR ASS: Metal Heads Are Everywhere I Go

At the Metal Injection Blog Factory, we are all preparing for our road trip to Worcester for the annual NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL. And by preparing, I mean doing mediocre research to interview bands and downloading old school hip hop to blast at 3am to piss of Rob and Frank. Oh, and getting my car checked out to make sure we have a smooth ride (yes, I know that is what she said). So at about 2pm I went to the local Express Lube place down the street from me. After telling the dude who was checking my car that I was going on a long trip and just wanted to make sure everything was safe to go, he confesses that he's a HUGE Sabbath and Venom fan. So I let him in on the new Heaven and Hell album and charges me $0. I win. Now you can read all the news you have missed and catch up on who is releasing new tunes. Click away. Click away.

Black metal's version of Hot or Not. Thanks to Jeanne Fury for initially finding this and then Metal Sucks for reblogging it.

Two days after NoiseCreep posted this feature, FACT vanflipped.

You can now pre-order the new Gwynbleidd album, "Nostalgia."

Landmine Marathon's Grace Perry blogged about bat wings and drunkenly telling off cab drivers.

Some Crust dude offered a metal history lesson last week. If you like or want to learn read this brief history of Sunn 0))).

Metal Sucks learned a lesson on Atheist versus Atheism. You can learn it too.

So secret shows are never really secret, unless–no its just never really a secret anymore. And in saying so, I'm going to blab about a secret show in Albuquerque. Get a preview of that show here.

Speaking of cool tour packages, every so often two tours are simultaneously traveling the U.S. And every not so often they cross the same city/venue on the same day. If you live in the Detroit area, you are one lucky metal head.

If you life in Philly or St. Paul you can meet Lamb of God.

new. Nachtmystium. ep. <--Proof that everyone is stoked.

Bodom's new setlist is as follows: 'Silent Night, Bodom Night', 'Hellhounds On My Trail', 'Living Dead Beat', 'Angels Don't Kill', 'COD / BBQ', 'In Your Face', 'Blooddrunk', 'Downfall'.

There is NO group therapy in this doc. NOCAREEVER! Sike. I can't not dig that they included Metallica's Moscow footage, but it does suck that there was barely a mention of the bassist situation. It goes from Burton to Newsted to Trujillo in a breathe, if that.

Hammerfall destroyed a hotel room. Read about it here.

An Emmure rumor is posted on Lambgoat.

News About New Releases

Darkest Hour. Municipal Waste. Marilyn Manson. Behemoth. Brutal Truth. Binary Code. Vader. Pestilence.

Maudlin of the Well is releasing their fan-funded album through a bit torrent. I'm fucking speechless.

Billboard Reports

Oceano. Queensryche. Satyricon.

Album Streams

Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Brutal Truth. CHIMAIRA.

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MARYLAND DEATH FEST Announces Second Stage; First Bands Announced

File this under: Best News Ever.

The madmen behind Maryland’s goriest, circlepittiest, most blastbeat-engulfed metal festival have announced plans to include a second stage, featuring a proposed lineup of fifty (count ‘em, fifty!) crazy-awesome bands. Ten have already been announced, with many more to come.

Worried about being forced to make that agonizing choice between your favorite band and your other favorite band that the conflicting time schedules at so many festivals thrust upon us poor patrons? No worries, Ryan and Evan’ve got your back.

According to the festival organizers, “Bands that will perform on the second stage will not be scheduled to start until a band finishes playing on the main stage. This will allow every band on the second stage to play for at least 15-20 minutes when no other band is playing, not to mention many of the bands on the second stage won't need much more than 20 minutes to play.”

The first ten second stage acts will include:


Kill the Client (Texas)
Grief (Massachusetts)
Magrudergrind (Washington DC)
Lair of the Minotaur (Illinois)
Unearthly Trance (New York)
The Endless Blockade (Canda)
Maruta (Florida)
Car Bomb (New York)
Weekend Nachos (Illinois)
Drugs of Faith (Maryland)

More bands and ticket prices to be announced soon!

Already confirmed:

PESTILENCE - Netherlands
MAYHEM – Norway
ATHEIST – Florida (!!!!!)
ASPHYX – Netherlands
IMMOLATION – New York
BRUTAL TRUTH – New York
ABSCESS - California
HAIL OF BULLETS – Netherlands
GENERAL SURGERY – Sweden
TODAY IS THE DAY - Tennessee
PHOBIA – California
SAYYADINA – Sweden
FLESH PARADE – Louisiana
JIG-AI - Czech Republic
ANTIGAMA – Poland
CROWPATH – Sweden
GNOSTIC – Georgia
MAN MUST DIE – Scotland
ENTRAILS MASSACRE - Germany
TRIAC – Maryland

Pig Destroyer - Virginia
Splitter - Sweden

Tour Dates

ATHEIST, PESTILENCE, MAYHEM & three more bands confirmed for Maryland Death Fest '09

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(SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP, DO YOU SEE THIS LINEUP?!)

To reiterate: HOLY FUCK! One of the best lineups I've ever seen, and they're sure to add at least a dozen more bands over the next few months. I swear, every Maryland Death Fest is better than the last. The fest has been grinding away since 2003, and I had the pleasure of having my guts punched in and face ripped off at the 2007 & 2008 editions. This year had Anaal Nathrakh, Nuclear Assault, Grave, Hellnation, Disfear, Coffins, Blood Duster, and Macabre; the year before featured the likes of Extreme Noise Terror, Zyklon, Ghoul, Cripple Bastards, Misery Index, Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation (best all-female Japanese grind band ever) and tons more. This year? Man oh man, this year…well, read for yourself. So far, Ryan and Evan (i.e. the dudes who plan this madness) have confirmed the following bands for MDF VII:

PESTILENCE - Netherlands (!!!!)
MAYHEM – Norway (one of only three US shows! if they don't play "Chainsaw Gutsfuck," someone's gettin' smacked)
ATHEIST – Florida (!!!!!)
ASPHYX – Netherlands (words can't express how much this band rules)
IMMOLATION – New York
BRUTAL TRUTH – New York (grindgrindgrind)
ABSCESS - California (yessssss)
HAIL OF BULLETS – Netherlands (old school death done right)
GENERAL SURGERY – Sweden (FUCK YEAH!)
TODAY IS THE DAY - Tennessee (strange. very strange)
PHOBIA – California (LOUD, PROUD, AND PUNK AS FUCK! this band destroys all. poser-stomping glory)
SAYYADINA – Sweden
FLESH PARADE – Louisiana (YES)
JIG-AI - Czech Republic
ANTIGAMA – Poland
CROWPATH – Sweden
GNOSTIC – Georgia
MAN MUST DIE – Scotland
ENTRAILS MASSACRE - Germany
TRIAC – Maryland (HELL yeah)

And many more to come! Now, we all know that half of these bands might drop off in the nine months 'til the fest (considering the recurring trend that MDf's been plagued with since its inception), but goddamn is that list a beautiful sight. There's a good mix of old-school death, tech death, gore, and grind so far, with Mayhem playing the wild card. They definitely need to bring the splatterthrash and add Ghoul (come on, you KNOW they're gonna play this, just like they do every year). I'm hoping that they'll add in some more powerviolence/crusty stuff (psst, bring back Skitsystem!); I know Hellbastard's supposed to tour this spring, so I'll be crossing my fingers for that. Also, more old-school death and black metal, please!

No matter which way you slice, dice, or hack it with a chainsaw, Maryland Death Fest '09 is going to rule just as hard, if not way fucking harder than it has in previous years. It ain't called "North America's Biggest Heavy Metal Party of the Year" for nothin'! Anyone who's witnessed the crusty fights, blow-up dolls, chicken suits, fake (and real) blood, endless circle pits, Creepsylvanians, and 24-hour-blastbeat-a-thons set against the seedy Red Light background of downtown Baltimore knows what I'm talking about.

MDF VII is being held at Sonar in Baltimore, MD, May 22 – 24, 2009. No word on pricing or running order yet, but we'll keep ya posted. Check out MDF's official forum here.

Be there or you're officially fired from metal. Forever.