The first Weekly Dose from MetalInjection.net is a live clip of French underground death metal band Gorod performing "Chronicle From the Stone Age" at the Maryland Deathfest.

Click "more" to read the band's history and watch the footage. Read more...

photo by Jon Wiederhorn

We know you all love Opeth's video for "Porcelain Heart" and the Danava clip for "Where Beauty and Terror Dance" 'cuz you voted for 'em last week, and we re-aired them on the May 16 edition of Headbangers Ball. So, you can't choose those again, however there's plenty of other rad stuff we played Saturday to select from, and the winner will earn a place on next week's show.

These include last week's exclusive premieres -- Pelican's "Dead Between the Walls" and Otep's "Crooked Spoons" -- as well as cool videos by Saviours, Demon Hunter, Obituary and more. Other past winners, Warbringer and Behomoth, don't qualify for this week's vote either, which doesn't mean we might not still program 'em. Remember, one vote per headbangers -- no cheating. click "more" to see your choices (drum roll, please): Read more...

Several of your who hazarded guesses got this week's logo right. The band is Voids of Vomit, an Italian old-school death metal outfit currently comprised of lead vomiter C.O. Vomit, bassist and vomiter V.Vomit, guitarist M. Putrid and drummer T. Dirty. The nausea-inducing band formed in 2003 after the demise of Mass Cremation. According to their promo material, the band was heavily into substance abuse and "mental problems and drum addiction of some members cause lack of rehearsals. VOV play under disastrous effects of any kind of substances exclusively."

Over time, they blew fewer and fewer chunks in terms of quality, and by 2005 they were playing shows with Wasteform, Vomit Remnants and Godless Truth. While Voids of Vomit took off much of 2005, they got back together in 2006 and recorded a demo Rehearsal Vomit 2006, which came out in February 2007 on The Threshold Creations and featured "Gorepipe," "Walls of Hallucination" and "Bones Around Us."

Still largely dormant, Voids of Vomit got together on March 15 to play at the Demonic Nuclear Oblivion show with Blasphemophager and Mefetic. Check out their MySpace page, but heed their warning: "If you are into gore-grind crap, don't add us."

Having recently finished touring North America with Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth are now gearing up for this year's round of summer festivals. And when those are over, the band will take some well-deserved time off before diving back into the writing studio to work on the follow-up to the incendiary disc The Apostasy.

That means no more U.S. appearances until at least 2009, however there'll still be plenty of new Behemoth coming your way. First the band's going to release a live album from The Apostasy tour, then soon after, Behemoth will drop a new EP on Metal Blade, the band's first release for its new label.

During our podcast interview with Behemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski, we talked about the recent tour with Dimmu Borgir, the new studio EP and live album, the possibility of a live DVD, keeping partying under control and the trouble Nergal caused onstage in Poland by tearing up a Bible.

Click "more" to stream or download the podcast: Read more...

Both of these groups have been slotted into the metalcore scene, largely against their will and have released three proper studio albums -- though Unearth are hard at work on their fourth. Oh, and both are fronted by a guy named Trevor; Unearth's singer is Trevor Phipps and The Black Dahlia Murder's frontman is Trevor Strnad. Also, they both rock pretty hard and neither like melodic vocals too much. The question is, which rocks harder. Read more...

Man, this crazy logo looks like some evil electric shield with some sort of a voodoo skull at the top. And of course there are the obligatory inverted crosses on either side of the thing. Plus, the whole object looks like it's been sitting in a musty attic for 150 years and has become covered with dust and spider webs. Makes us sneeze just thinking about it. Leave your guesses in the comment box below.

Counter-culture poet and provocateur, Otep Shamaya is almost as prolific and creative with her band's videos as she is with her infamous "Might Makes Write" Headbangers Ball Blog guest blogs. Not long after dropping the video for "Confrontation," Otep have hammered us with a new one for the song "Crooked Spoons," which is also from their latest album The_Ascension.

Click "more" to read her thoughts on the video and watch the premiere of the clip. Then see it again on Saturday's Headbangers Ball on MTV2. Read more...

On Tuesday, Eagle Rock Entertainment released the DVD "Korn Live at Montreux," which features a complete set recorded in 2004 -- back when drummer David Silveria was still with the band and guitarist Bran "Head" Welch was still banging groupies, doing loads of drugs and had yet to discover God.

Click "more" to read about the DVD and watch the cut "Blind." Read more...

After Divine Heresy guitarist Dino Cazares (ex-Fear Factory) fired Tommy Cummings because of personal differences, some smart-asses chimed in about how Fear Factory singer Burton C. Bell should join the band. Obviously, that didn't happen and Divine Heresy are now touring with ex-Periphery singer Jake Veredika. But if Bell wasn't involved with his own band Ascension of the Watchers and didn’t have future plans with Fear Factory, well, who knows… Read more...

"Do more than expected, expect less than deserved" -- Emma Elb (The Conqueror's Creed)

Before the philosopher sage Emma Elb launched herself into self-imposed abstractionist dementia, she was valued as the foremost authority on how to tame, cultivate, and forge the fires in the creative spirit. Indeed, her writings were considered sacred to her many dedicated and (some say) cult-like fans, supporters, and crusaders. Sadly, most of her work perished when her publishing house burned to the ground one winter night (on the same historical day as the great fire in ancient Egypt that destroyed the libraries of Alexendria).

The circumstances surrounding the fire are still unexplained and no one was ever captured or blamed. But the volumes she authored on the ethos of being a successful, (somewhat) satisfied, and powerfully productive "arteest" gave rise to an eruption of new and dangerous thinkers, speakers, artists and provocateurs. Only a few copies of her work remain and only a few lucky souls have had their eyes and minds feed on her syllables. I am one such lucky soul. Read more...