There's been a pretty considerable hype over ASG in the recent months, and now I finally get to hear what everyone's on about! Here it is courtesy of Pitchfork! Just an aside real quick- I love their stye of streaming albums lately with the artworks and videos, etc. Gives that extra dimension of cool, if ...

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Get it? They're saying they want a truce to be called on war, so instead of truth they said truce! Let the Truce Be Known! Good thing Orphaned Land are really good or else I'd be all over the terrible jokes on this one. Orphaned Land's All Is One is out on June 25, which ...

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Metal Injection is worldwide, and it's never more evident than with our new photo gallery from 1349's recent Countdown To Apocalypse show, which also featured Aeon Throne, Monolithic and Nidigr. Check out the epic photo gallery from Aline Miladinovich for more killer pictures!

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Phil Anselmo is one of the hardest working men in heavy metal. Besides curating a Halloween horror festival and playing with Down, the dude is getting really serious about his solo project. We got our first taste of new music last week, and today Phil announced a new tour. The tour will feature Warbeast and ...

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Ahh, Tumblr, endless source of entertainment. Clearly, Yahoo agrees with me since they just bought Tumblr for over 1 billion dollars. There are great Tumblrs dedicated to metal cats, bargain bin blasphemy and even meeting Fred Durst, but I think the true reason Tumblr exists is to expose to juggalos of OkCupid.  Juggalos of OKCupid finds the best ...

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Escape The Fate hosts this episode of The Fix with videos from Bring Me The Horizon, Papa Roach, Motionless In White, Hollywood Undead and Falling In Reverse.

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Over the past few weeks, we at Metal Injection have been flooding you with all of the Queens of the Stone Age teaser videos for their upcoming album …Like Clockwork, and rightfully so. Liam Brazier is a badass and his work with them has been fucking cool. Today Josh Homme and friends put them out all as one surprisingly cohesive story in ...

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Did you know Rob Zombie's new movie, The Lords of Salem has been out for a month now? Chances are you didn't, or perhaps did and decided to skip it because the movie tanked at the box office. But, this is Zombie's fifth horror movie, counting his two Halloween films, House of 1000 Corpses and ...

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Capture the Crown released this new song called "Rebearth." Why is there a reference to a bear in the title, you ask? Mainly because you'll want a bear to come crashing through your walls and maul you to death when you hit play. I sat here and listened to this song twice and really tried ...

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Now that Metallica have completed their $20 million 3D movie, Through The Never, they have to go out and sell it to distributors.  Through The Never will be released on Sept. 27th on every IMAX screen in the country and then shortly thereafter, nationwide. As for international markets, Lars was at the prestigious Cannes film festival to ...

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Yesterday, System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian made some pretty stupid comments about going on without lead singer Serj Tankian that didn't sit too well with the band. Not smart, Shavo. Especially when the band has no idea that you're even saying the stuff you're saying before it goes out into the press? About ...

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Darkane are coming out with The Sinister Supremacy on July 2, but that doesn't mean you have to wait until then to hear any of it! Well damn, Lawrence Mackrory is sounding pretty good with the band since his return to vocals! Dude hasn't been at it in Darkane since 1999, but it sounds like ...

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Phil Buerstatte, drummer for White Zombie from 1992 to 1994 and for Last Crack from 1986 to 1997 has passed away earlier this weekend. We just keep losing them in 2013, don't we? Buerstatte was found dead in Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend with no further details available at the moment. We'll keep you posted as ...

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I had a hell of a time getting to sleep last night. I just say The Dillinger Escape Plan for the first time. Holy hell, what a show?! I wasn't even in the pit and my body is sore. I just kept hearing the echo of awkward guitar chords played at time-signature-optional intervals. I'm still ...

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"World Shepherd" music video from our new album "Synthetic Ascension Design," available on Bandcamp.

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Our photo gallery is back online and faster than ever. We'll have new live galleries posted every day this week! To kick things off, two recent killer shows from NYC… Clutch and The Sword and Steel Panther.

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The Devil Wears Prada are working on their Roadrunner Records debut. Take a peek into their recording studio, Atlanta’s Glow In The Dark Studios. The as-yet-untitled new LP, executive produced by Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage, with producer / engineer Matt Goldman, will be out this fall.

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What rolls through my head while listening to German stoner rock trio Kadavar’s second album, Abra Kadavar? This is music to get stoned to. This is music for lying under black lights and layers of creeping smoke, and just grooving, like when you were a teenager. This is music for skipping work to hang out ...

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Amon Amarth will soon be releasing a documentary, Forging Mjölnir.” Here is a preview. The doc will focus on the making of the band's upcoming album, Deceiver Of The Gods out June 25th.

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Orchid are bringing the doom rock in a big way with The Mouths of Madness, and under no circumstances should you be missing out on this. It's modern enough to be considered in that "modern retro" vein of heavy metal revival, but if this were released in the late 70's, nobody would have thought a ...

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This is the best cover of Pantera I've ever seen! The musician is Sambo Ray, Jr.. Good work, sir! [via MetalSucks]

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When I got a press release in my inbox announcing a new band from the frontman of Refused, Dennis Lyxzén, I was excited to hear what they sound like. When I hit play, what I heard was not exactly what I expected: Spoiler alert: It's not metal, it's not hardcore, it's just basically Joy Division ...

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I originally heard about Karnivool from Between the Buried and Me guitarist Dustie Waring. Knowing Dustie wouldn't lie about a band's awesomeness, I checked them out the first chance I got and was not disappointed. If you haven't heard of these guys yet, maybe you should hit the play button and/or download this new track ...

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It's been a while since we've had a concrete update on new material from System Of A Down. They haven't released new material since 2005's double album, Mesmerize/Hypnotize and in that time frontman Serj Tankian has developed quite the solo career, while his bandmates have also gotten mild success with their solo projects. While the ...

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DL, the non-touring member and studio wizard for The Acacia Strain, has called it quits and moved on to greener musical pastures. Well that kinda sucks. According to DL's Facebook fan page: Well, if you havent noticed, i havent played a show with the acacia strain in years and ive just been writing the music ...

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The new video from the legendary Hatebreed for thetitle track off their new album, The Divinity of Purpose.

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There weren't too many fans of Megadeth's first single off Supercollider. "Kingmaker" makes up for it ten-fold. "Kingmaker" is the song that everyone wanted the title track to be- thrashy with sweet guitar solos and overall not lame-ass dad rock. Granted, it's not Countdown to Extinction or Rust in Peace, but it's good in it's ...

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Stone Temple Pilots are currently Weiland-less, so why not get good old Linkin Park's Chester Bennington in on the ordeal? Check out the song found by at The PRP and let us know what you think! It's a super strange combination of band and singer, but I actually dig it way more than I thought ...

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Trouble are back with lead singer Kyle Thomas to bring you The Distortion Field! Are you ready for the doom jams? July 16 will see a new Trouble record, the first in over six years now. Pretty cool that these guys have been keeping in going since the mid 80's, and killing it too! Outside ...

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Impending Doom are working on an album with their original guitarist Manny Contreras! Cool stuff, so here's to hoping it's a good record. According to a press release published by LambGoat: Southern California juggernauts Impending Doom have entered The Machine Shop (Suicide Silence, Lamb of God) in Belleville, NJ this week to start working on ...

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We kicked off the episode in full "Darrinsky" mode, and that lasted throughout the episode leading to many laughs. We discussed the most recent developments in the Tim Lambesis trial. Sid had a startling world-exclusive interview. We found the worst rendition of the American national anthem. We discussed the new Five Finger Death Punch/Rob Halford ...

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Things are not looking good for As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis. At a bail hearing on Friday, the judge preciding only lowered his bail from $3 million to $2 million, a fee too large for Lambesis to afford. Lambesis had plead not guilty to one count of solicitation of murder after attempting to hire a hitman to murder ...

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Watch Kvelertak's full set from Webster Hall as they crushed it downstairs in the studio!

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Revocation really cannot do any wrong when it comes to writing new jams, and they're proving that once more in their latest studio update!

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Tim Lambesis isn't going anywhere. At the conclusion of the As I Lay Dying frontman's bail hearing earlier today, the judge lowered his bail to $2 million, which Lambesis' attorney claims is still too expensive for Lambesis. Lambesis had plead not guilty to one count of solicitation of murder after attempting to hire a hitman to murder his wife. ...

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There was a lot of big news this week, we heard further (although smaller) developments in the Tim Lambesis trial, Jeff Hanneman's memorial celebration was announced, and those slimbags at Westboro claimed they will be there to protest. We also saw how lavishly Metallica's James Hetfield once lived and learned that Guitar World has a ...

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First thing's first: Last week's winner! Congratulations to Justin Fontes who had the best zinger: They were 18 when the last necrophagist album came out. He'll be getting a free CD from our grab bg. Now for this week's fun photo to caption: This week, we're giving away a free CD from our grab bag, ...

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Well this is fun. Andreas Kisser made an appearance on a children's show in Brazil called "Cocoricó." The entire conversation is in Portuguese, so I don't know what the hell is going on. It is pretty entertaining though. Check it out here. It appears that Kisser was asked about influences or bands he likes at ...

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So you're in the mood for some Alice in Chains, but the doomier styling of bands like Woods of Ypres has been calling your name all day. Making a playlist isn't going to cut it; you want your 20-ton slow jams with a heaping side of vocal harmonies right now! Welcome to A Pale Horse ...

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Allow me to share in Axl Rosenberg's joy. Today, Trent Reznor tweeted that his longtime NIN collaborator, guitarist Robin Finck is back in the fold with Nine Inch Nails. Reznor announced the Nine Inch Nails reunion a few months back, but Finck's name was noticeably absent. I guess they worked it out because today Reznor ...

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Periphery are on a bit of a break right now as they get ready for Summer Slaughter and guitarist Misha Mansoor decided "hey, why not cover a Meshuggah classic?" So that's what he did… Misha posted the above track to his Soundcloud page with the following messhage: Why? Because I love this album and I ...

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Whoa, Huntress just got a huge seal of approval from a Golden God of heavy metal. The band, who is working on a new album right now, has a new song which was co-written by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead.  The announcement came earlier today when the band premiered a new track off their upcoming release, Starbound Beast, out ...

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Metallica announced their (not very cheap) pinball game a few weeks ago, and I have to say, after watching this mini-playthough video, I really want to play the game. It incorporates many Metallica tropes into the pinball game and it does so very well. Game designer John Borg went through all the features of the ...

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Record label Hydra Head are selling off a bunch of really cool stuff to close down their Los Angels HQ. Heartbreaking for most, but it could be one hell of a treasure trove for all y'all fans! On Saturday, May 25, the label will be selling off all types of cool shit in what they're ...

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Full disclosure: I loved Korn all the way up until college, then I discovered Slayer. It was a glorious time. The band lost me after Issues and then they just kept putting out sub-par material. I remember re-visiting some of their older stuff not too long ago, and deeming it still listenable. Although, I probably ...

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We knew this was coming, they just had to confirm it. At next week's celebration of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman's life, the Westboro bapitist church will stage a protest. The Church has been adomoment in getting publicity for itself in the wake of this tragedy, saying they plan to sing their parody of "Crazy Train" ...

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Legendary progressive metal band Cynic are in the mixing process for their new album. Apparently they're gunning hard for that fall 2013 release date! According to Reinert's Facebook: “Mixing new CYNIC… sounds “kiiiiiiiiler!!!”…. some people are gonna be pissed and others are gonna say “thank you!!!”… I’m with the latter!!!” Oh God, what the hell ...

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We've been posting up singles from Kylesa's upcoming effort Ultraviolet as they've been released, but now it's time to hear the album in full! I've never been a huge Kylesa fan, but Ultraviolet is growing on me something fiere. It's got that certain psychedlic fuzzy quality about it that I love in bands like Uncle ...

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