By Ryan Buege After being held off of the MAYHEM's Metal Injection-sponsored Blackenedfest tour due to visa issues last year, MARDUK finally returned to North America last month for a Metal Injection-sponsored tour of their own! Coming to the nation under the banner of their U.S. Plague Tour, the conditions in Minnesota have turned much colder, [...]
After Corey Mitchell's perfect review of their album Executioner, how could we resist running a tour blog from Mantic Ritual guitarist Jeff Potts? Read his first installment below, and if you're very well behaved, others will follow... Right now I'm sitting back stage at the Masquerade in Atlanta with the peculiar kind of sore throat [...]
The MetalSucks-sponsored U.S. Plague Tour 2009 is currently weaving its way across the country, and MS photographer Diana Lee Zadlo was on hand November 23rd in Baltimore to catch Marduk, Nachtmystium and Merrimack in action. The tour rolls through New York in a couple of weeks, and though we're exhausted from a long Autumn full [...]
The MetalSucks-sponsored U.S. Plague Tour 2009 - featuring Marduk, Nachtmystium, Mantic Ritual, Merrimack, and on select dates Black Anvil - is currently under way. The tour kicked off Friday in Worcester, MA, runs through the South, up the West Coast, and then cuts back through the Midwest, ending December 16th in New York. In a [...]
Chicagoan Blake Judd has announced that his perpetually-revolving band of blackened psychonauts Nachtmystium will enter the studio in January to record the follow-up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I. Judd said the band will again be working with producer extraordinaire Sanford Parker and is demoing some material with him this month. Judd said the new material is "
France's Merrimack aren't that old. They formed in the mid-'90s and saw sporadic action until three albums in the '00s. But on Grey Rigorism [ Moribund / Osmose , 2009], they've matured. In black metal, "maturation" is hazardous. It usually involves slicker production and signing to bigger labels. Part of black metal's appeal was its youth — kids who didn't know whether to praise Satan or Odin; who had crappy equipment and crappier musicianship; and whose hormones found expression in chaos. Now instead of Frankensteined hybrids of punk and metal, [...]
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Portal - "Larvae" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pelican - "Strung Up From The Sky" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Heims - "W.O.F." (Edit) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Heims - "Heims" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Merrimack - "In The Halls Of White Death" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Gnaw Their Tongues - "Rife With Teeth" [...]
MARDUK are coming! For real this time. They have their visas and everything. We are proud to be sponsoring this killer tour which will also feature one of our favorite bands around right now, the mega-epic NACHTMYSTIUM. Rounding out the lineup will be Mantic Ritual, Merrimack and on select dates, Brooklyn's own Black Anvil. This [...]
I don't know about you guys, but I've actually learned a lot from metal. For example, when I was a kid, I heard Axl Rose use the word "cunt" in the song "Bad Obsession" and subsequently asked my dad, "What's a cunt?" To which he responded, "Your mother's sister." And I instantly knew exactly what [...]
Following three very special U.S. appearances earlier this month in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York (effectively breaking their streak of visa issues), Swedish black metal battalion MARDUK will return for a full North American headlining tour this November dubbed the U.S. Plague Tour 2009. The band will be joined by Nachtmystium, Mantic Ritual, Merrimack and [...]
We here at Metal Injection have enjoyed a longtime love affair with the French metal scene. Rob & the boys are all about Gorod and Gojiiiraaaaaa,and have given them lots of love on this site (see here, here, and here). Those bands are undeniably rad, but they call me Grim Kim for a reason - [...]
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