Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

It’s taken nearly two decades, but Powerwolf is finally bringing their heavy metal mass to North America. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Ahead of the much hyped tour and release of their latest collection Interludium (available April 7th through Napalm Records), founding member and keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel sat down with Metal Injection for a […]

Speed, openers for Turnstile on their recent Australian tour, had one very excited fan that was certainly trying to accomplish something in the crowd. In a short video posted to Twitter, the fan runs toward another person kneeling down on the ground, launches themselves upward, and takes a pretty hard header right into the security […]

After somehow surviving snorting $75K’s worth of cocaine while recording Vol. 4 in 1972, the 1977 version of Black Sabbath was still deep into druggy indulgences. So much so that while working on their eighth studio record, Never Say Die!, they would arrive at Sounds Interchange Studios in Toronto too high to play and would […]

Linkin Park announced their Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition on February 10 and launched a long-lost track called “Lost.” In those eight days since the announcement, “Lost” has racked up over 17 million streams on Spotify and 16 million views on YouTube. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Billboard also points out that “Lost” is the first rock […]

This week’s top tracks here at Metal Injection include the first Cattle Decapitation single from their coming record Terracite, another Sleep Token single but with an actual album announcement this time, and a new Acacia Strain single that’ll wreck you. Check out the playlist on Spotify here and on Apple Music here. “We Eat Our […]

We caught up with Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost and Host fame to discuss everything from the inspirations of marring heavy music with electronics, why modern metal might be a little “soft,” when he feels happiest creating music, and much more! Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Pre-order IX, the debut album from HOST available Feb […]

Maryland Deathfest 2024 has added a handful of killer artists to their lineup including Abbath, Arcturus, Daeva, Defeated Sanity, and way more. The new additions include: Abbath Archagathus Arcturus At War Bölzer Daeva Defeated Sanity Grave Miasma Noctem Organ Failure Siege Column Sinmara Spectral Wound The above artists join 35 previously announced bands, which are: […]

Pantera has announced a second show at Barba Negra in Budapest on May 31. The show is in place of Pantera‘s now-cancelled date in Vienna, Austria over accusations of past racism. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. For those out of the loop, Pantera‘s appearances at both the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals […]

Rumors began circulating late this January that Megadeth and Marty Friedman would reunite for the first time in 23 years on February 27 at the Nippon Budokan venue in Tokyo. Then Megadeth all of a sudden announced they’d be livestreaming the Nippon Budokan show online, which pretty much confirmed the rumors without actually outright confirming […]

There’s a really cool new action figure coming our way from the folks at Super7: a Cliff Burton replica that comes with three interchangeable heads; a standard Cliff, and two variations of headbanging; a bass guitar and strap; nine interchangeable hands positioned in every way imaginable, including fists, open hands, and even a middle finger […]