Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

HAKEN’s RICHARD HENSHALL Discusses How Personal Loss & The Animal Kingdom Influenced Their New Album Fauna

English prog-metal ensemble Haken continue their reliably steady output with the release of their seventh studio album Fauna, available via Inside Out on March 3. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Bolstered by the return of keyboardist Pete Jones and a massive European tour with Between The Buried And Me, the authors of such bombastic and mind-bending cuts […]

What Is Going On With These Fake AVENGED SEVENFOLD Festival Appearance Cancelations?

Update: Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows has taken to Twitter to say that the band was hacked, the festival appearances have not been cancelled, and the podcast from the band with Shadows reading off the cancelations is “not him.” So it’s probably safe to assume that something is up with Avenged Sevenfold at the moment. […]

For A Ridiculous Amount Of Money, You Can Join GENE SIMMONS At Abbey Road To Record A KISS Song

Ah…. Abbey Road Studios. The crown jewel of recording studios. The place were The Beatles recorded their final LP of the same name. It hosted the genesis of the long-running feud between Roger Waters and David Gilmour as Pink Floyd recorded their landmark album The Dark Side of The Moon. And now, in the same […]

ASHLEY MORGAN SMITHLINE Goes Back On MARILYN MANSON Accusations, Says EVAN RACHEL WOOD “Manipulated” Her

The case against Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) brought forth by model Ashley Morgan Smithline was dismissed in January, but it goes a little deeper than that now. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. In a statement issued to Billboard, Smithline claims her accusations against Manson were not true and that she was “manipulated” by Manson‘s former girlfriend and accuser […]

POWERWOLF’s FALK MARIA SCHLEGEL On The Band’s First Ever North American Tour, New Album & Earning Praise From ALICE COOPER

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 […]

It’s Not Clear What This Guy Was Trying To Do At A Recent Hardcore Show

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 […]

When OZZY Left BLACK SABBATH In 1977 & Was Replaced By A Former Member Of FLEETWOOD MAC

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’s “Lost” Is Unsurprisingly Very Popular

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 […]

CATTLE DECAPITATION, AVATAR, SLEEP TOKEN & More Among Metal Injection’s Top Tracks Of The Week

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 […]