When you're obligated (or just want) to listen to as much music as I do, it becomes difficult if not impossible to "memorize" a band's back catalog in the way that, for instance, I devoured Metallica's oeuvre nose-to-tail up through The Black Album… no lyric undigested, no riff unforeseen.  Since the mid-90s I've been consuming ...

We're currently downing some hot dogs and boca burgers celebrating the birth of the United States of America, we thought you might enjoy Thor Shredsteen's Fourth of July special that we shot with the guitar god last year. It features a lot of patriotic (and not so patriotic) videos. Check it out.

We were joined by Axl Rosenberg on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast. We start the show taking some calls and then immediately talking about boobs, blog mixers and bukkakke…and it all mixed. Sean tries to remember the call-in phone number. Axl recalls his experience interacting with gay pride parade walkers, and later in ...

Once upon a time there was a magical symphonic black metal super group (try saying that 5 times fast) that spent the better half of 1998 inside my disc-man. Yeah, remember those!? Covenant originated as a two man group in 1993 with Nagash, and Blackheart , but it wasn't until they signed a deal with ...

This is seriously the coolest thing! I'm sure I'm not the only guy who makes any surface their personal drum, now a team has gone ahead and literally made a bunch of household surfaces for the purpose of drumming and or playing a xylophone. If you're really into this, you better have some deep pockets ...

This may be the douchiest story ever written: Shock-rock has-been Marilyn Manson is getting ready to release a new cash-grab record later this year, and I guess he wanted to create a documentary about the creation of the record. He probably though: "Who out there in Hollywood can out-douche me, the douche master?" And naturally, ...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the T.R.A.M. album is delayed! T.R.A.M. of course features the superhuman musicians Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes of Animals as Leaders, Adrian Terrazas formerly of The Mars Volta and Eric Moore of the Suicidal Tendencies. We caught the band at their only performance ever at SXSW ...

Everybody knows that Decibel Magazine is my favorite analog blog, and they constantly provide thorough metal information from the comfort of my crapper. The guys always have very polished covers, but I feel like with the August issue they really outdid themselves. The mag enlisted comic artist Tom Neely (he of Henry & Glenn Forever ...

It's been a while since we did the Guessing Game, so lets kick off the Summer right with a new game. We have a killer prize for our comeback as well. We are giving FIVE junkies who answer correctly a copy of the new AC/DC DVD, Let There Be Rock, in stores now, their legendary ...

Oh happy day! The Frak The Gods Tour, featuring Periphery, The Human Abstract, Textures  & The Contortionist was announced a few weeks back, but no dates. Today, we have these dates and dates are a plenty. The tour kicks off September 3rd in Raleigh, NC hitting major cities all over (creeping in for stops in Toronto ...

Landmine Marathon, which holds among it's ranks the praying mantis of metal, Grace Perry are hitting the road this summer for a slew of shows on the West Coast in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. If you're near a show that's on the itinerary, I guarantee it will be a good time. Here are the ...

One could say a lot of good things about Unearth. In 2001, with most emerging metal bands still mired in the colossal waste of time of “Nu-Metal”, the band became one of the first to push the style we think of as “modern” Metalcore with their debut release, The Stings of Conscience. Within a few ...

We have already seen a shitty bootleg of the track "Dusk Dismantled" but today, the band released the studio version of track, and I have to say it's surpringly heavy. There are some evil, black-ish parts to the song. Ultimately though, if you hated Trivium before, this won't do much to change your mind. But ...

Ok, this time it's totally real. Roadrunner has uploaded the first full track from Dream Theater's upcoming album, A Dramatic Turn of Events. The nine-minute opus is titled "On The Backs Of Angels" and is filled with signature keybaord and guitar shredding and not incredibly irritating vocals by James LaBrie. While Frank and Noa are ...

When I was a kid, I was absolutely addicted to Mortal Kombat 3. I spent an entire summer at the arcade either playing or watching my friends play the game, and then the entire winter playing the game on my Sega Genesis. If somebody were to merge that idea with the metal gods and bring ...

Behemoth just posted a slew of photos on their official site of the band rehearsing for their upcoming tour of Poland. This is the first time the band is jamming together since Nergal overcame his battles with leukemia. The band look to be in great spirits, and Nergal's statement on the site that accompanies the ...