Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

CODE ORANGE, FUGITIVE, HARM’S WAY & More Among Metal Injection’s Top Tracks Of The Week

This week’s top tracks include a new jam from Code Orange featuring Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan, another rager from Fugitive, some ass-kicking riffs from Harm’s Way, and more! Check out the playlist on Spotify here and on Apple Music here. “Take Shape” – Code Orange feat. Billy Corgan “Blast Furnace” – Fugitive “Silent Wolf” – Harm’s Way “A […]

Album Review: VOIVOD Morgöth Tales

On the recent occasion of the completion of a US leg of Voivod‘s celebratory 40th anniversary tour, myself and a group of fellow hockey pucks found ourselves engaged in conversation about everyone’s favourite band of Québécois space cadets. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. The range of this particular Voivod fanboy/girl convention spanned from folks who […]

Album Review: CULTIST Slow Suicide

It’s been a minute since a Facedown Records band caused substantial ripples in the underground, but leave it to Cultist to bring back the undeniable pedigree of Inland Empire deathcore. Like Christian-core luminaries Impending Doom or Sleeping Giant before them, it would be unwise to label Cultist’s debut album An Observation of Grief as merely […]

“It’s Making Harder And Harder For Artists To Survive Out There”

Merch cuts are hardly popular with bands these days. Dream Theater‘s John Petrucci has been vocal about his dislike for the practice, while In Flames‘ Anders Fridén has called for bands to come together and fight ’em. Now Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares is once again weighing in on the practice in an interview with […]

BETTER LOVERS (Ex-EVERY TIME I DIE, Ex-DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN) Played Their First Show And It Was Intense

Better Lovers, the new band featuring ex-Every Time I Die members Jordan Buckley, Clayton “Goose” Holyoak, and Stephen Micciche alongside former The Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato and Will Putney of Fit For An Autopsy, played their first-ever show on July 13 at the Rec Room in Buffalo, NY. Fan-filmed footage is available and […]

Founding BIOHAZARD Drummer ANTHONY MEO Has Died

Founding Biohazard drummer Anthony Meo has passed away after a battle with cancer. Meo drummed for Biohazard between 1987 and 1988, and played on the band’s first-ever demo. We wish Meo‘s friends and family all the best. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “RIP Anthony Meo,” wrote guitarist and vocalist Billy Graziadei. “You brought us all […]

UPON STONE Signs To Nuclear Blast, Streams Very Melodeath New Single

Upon Stone, one of the many bands booked for the upcoming Metal Injection Festival, has signed to Nuclear Blast and is now streaming their old-school melodeath single “Onyx Through The Heart”. The video for “Onyx Through The Heart” was directed by Steven Grise and Wyatt Bentley. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “We’re beyond elated to […]