Okay, the guys from Mastodon probably don't really head out into the woods on weekends with Dave Grohl and the members of Queens of the Stone Age, but it's funny to imagine the dudes stripping down to their skivies, putting on warpaint, bellowing like mountain wolves and getting in touch with their primal beasts within.
In a recent interview with MetalInjection.net, Brann Dailor joked about going on "wild man weekends" with Grohl, talking shop with Lars Ulrich during a European tour in which Mastodon and Metallica "got along like peas and carrots," getting paid for promoting Rockstar Energy Drink and his least favorite interview questions. Dailor also got serious about touring with Slayer, revealed that Neurosis guitarist and vocalist Scott Kelly will make a guest appearance on Mastodon's next record, which comes out in January 2009 and admits that Bullet For My Valentine are his favorite new band (not really). Click more to watch the fun: Read more...
Have The Acacia Strain really been a band for more than four years? It seems like just last week that we heard first the hardcore metal assault of their 2004 debut 3750. And now, they've already released their fourth album Continent, and they sound all professional and s--t... That's professional in a good way, not in a super-slick, overproduced and with too many gooey melodic vocals manner. What's more, The Acacia Strain still tear it up live like a new band aching to get noticed and willing to do whatever it takes to be heard.
MetalInjection.net recently filmed them at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey as part of Infest 2008. Click "more" to watch the band's dizzying medley of "3750" from their first album and "4X4" from 2006's "The Dead Walk." Read more...
Yeah, In This Moment singer Maria Brink looked more like Gwen Stefani than Lita Ford when she took the stage at the band's album preview party in downtown New York last week. But the band performed with heart and larger-than-life fervor even though the members were barely a foot off the floor on a tiny club stage. A further challenge to the band came from a hanging TV screen to their left, which broadcast Stanley Kubrick's masterful "A Clockwork Orange" throughout the concert. And as sexy as Brink is, it's hard to compete with creative images of the ultraviolence and bizarre camera angles of naked women. Still, In This Moment held their own. Click "more" watch MetalInjection.net's footage of their new single "Forever." Read more...
Testament drink to continued success
The Bay Area thrashers of Testament will remain on the Metal Masters tour with Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell and Motorhead through August 31 in Mountain View, California. But if you missed 'em on the tour because you couldn't get to the venue by 8:30 a.m. (or whatever the hell time they took the stage) don't worry. Testament will be back in the States in early October (according to Pollstar, the October 9 show in New York City is with Children of Bodom).
MetalInjection.net recently hooked up with guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick about touring, the band's new album The Formation of Damnation and the time the band met the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda. Click "more" to see it all. Read more...
Silent, they're not. For that matter none of they seem particularly suicidal either, but when did you actually believe there was truth in advertising. According to the bandmembers, there's also no truth in those who assert they play deathcore. But of all the bands that seem to fit that categorization, Suicide Silence are one of the best.
As destructive as their latest album The Cleansing is, the band's natural element is the stage. For those who haven't seen them yet, Suicide Silence put on a destructive, overwhelming and exciting performance full of noise, chaos and unpredictability. Every song it seems like they're about to fall apart, yet they never do, pushing sensory overload to its rhythmic limits while still containing enough breakdowns for kids to do some serious damage to themselves and others.
For those who have yet to experience the devastation, MetalInjection.net have posted three songs from the band's Summer Slaughter performance in Sayreville, New Jersey. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
For the past three weeks, MetalInjection.net have been posting mutli-camera live video from this year's Summer Slaughter tour. This week, they wrap up their coverage with three songs from The Black Dahlia Murder. As destructive as bands like Whitechapel, Kataklysm, Cryptopsy and Psycroptic were on that bill, The Black Dahlia Murder kept the fatigued and dehydrated crowd slamming with a set of death/thrash/metalcore that spanned their career. Click more to watch "Elder Misanthropy" and see what we mean. Read more...
One of the highlights from MetalInjection.net's Summer Slaughter coverage is Cryptopsy's "Slit Your Guts." The clip was shot with at least two cameras and the sound quality is pretty damn good. The mix is perfect, nothing's overdistorted and the guitar leads slash through like a straight razor through a bed sheet. Plus the band is on fire -- precise, but not at all mechanical. Click "more" to see for yourself: Read more...
Screw Mayhem attractions like Slipknot, Disturbed and Dragonforce, MetalInjection.net have recruited the dudes from The Red Chord to provide semi-regular updates from the festival. Here, they film the autograph tent, a Jack and Coke fountain at a (not so) surprise backstage birthday party for organizer John Reese and a skinny dude dancing like an eel next to a set of free weights. The later sequence is looped over a soundbed of '70s porn funk. Click "more" to watch it all and get your groove on: Read more...
It's pretty hard to find a good live video of Whitechapel. And if you can't figure out why, you go try holding a video camera still while a whirlpool of moshers converge all around you. And that's not to mention the challenge of capturing such loud music without having it overdistort so badly it sounds like a hailstorm on an aluminum roof.
Fortunately, the dudes at MetalInjection.net were able to shoot Whitechapel playing "Eternal Refuge" at the Summer Slaughter tour without having the footage look like a camcorder of an earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter Scale. And the sound is excellent. Since it's a one-camera shoot there's no zooming or anything, but the shoot was wisely done on a tripod and you can the entire stage without obstruction. Click "more" to watch the live vid. Read more...
The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm and Necrophagist are a few of the obvious highlights from this year's Summer Slaughter tour, but there are a bunch of other bands that are tearing faces and taking names as well, and one of the most lethal is Hobart, Tasmania's Psycroptic.
The band plays extreme technical death metal that's both intensely mathematical and absolutely captivating. With drums that pummel at, like, 8,000 BPM and guitars that shave flesh faster than a vegetable skinner, yet still leave something tangible in their slippery wake, Psycroptic could challenge Arsis and Meshuggah for the Nobel Noise Prize of Science. And they're every bit as brutal live, nailing each impossible rhythm shift and speed flurry with hunger and precision. Don't believe us? Click "more" and check out Metal Injection's excellent footage of "Isle of Disenchantment." Read more...
